George Kent Malaysia Bhd (XKLS:3204) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : RM28.6 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)

George Kent Malaysia Bhd Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

George Kent Malaysia Bhd Annual Data
	Trend	Jan13	Jan14	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17	Jan18	Jan19	Jan20	Mar22	Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					3.65	4.89	3.90	31.02	32.54

George Kent Malaysia Bhd Quarterly Data
	Oct18	Jan19	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															6.66	9.65	7.41	4.28	7.28

Competitive Comparison of George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.

George Kent Malaysia Bhd Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was RM28.6 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

George Kent Malaysia Bhd  (XKLS:3204) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.

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