What is Atlas Pipeline Partners LP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?
Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Atlas Pipeline Partners LP's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2014 was €37 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was €44 Mil.
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for Atlas Pipeline Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:
* 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.
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Atlas Pipeline Partners LP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
Competitive Comparison of Atlas Pipeline Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Atlas Pipeline Partners LP'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.
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Atlas Pipeline Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Atlas Pipeline Partners LP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP 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 Sep. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €44 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.
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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Atlas Pipeline Partners LP is a publicly-traded Delaware limited partnership formed in 1999. The Company is a provider of natural gas gathering, processing and treating services primarily in the Anadarko, Arkoma and Permian Basins located in the southwestern and mid-continent regions of the United States. It is also a provider of natural gas gathering services in the Appalachian Basin in the northeastern region of the United States and NGL transportation services provider in the southwestern region of the United States. The Company conducts its business in the midstream segment of the natural gas industry through two reportable segments: Gathering and Processing; and Transportation, Treating and other. The Gathering and Processing segment consists of: the Arkoma, WestOK, WestTX and Velma operations, which are comprised of natural gas gathering and processing assets servicing drilling activity in the Anadarko, Arkoma and Permian Basins; natural gas gathering assets located in the Barnett Shale play in Texas and the Appalachian Basin in Tennessee. The principal facilities consist of fourteen natural gas processing plants; eighteen gas treating facilities; approximately 11,200 miles of active 2 inch to 30 inch diameter natural gas gathering lines; and approximately 2,200 miles of NGL transportation pipeline. In Gathering and Processing segment, the Company competes for the acquisition of well connections with several other gathering/processing operations. These operations include plants and gathering systems operated by Access Midstream Partners, LP; Caballo Energy, LLC; Carrera Gas Company; Crosstex Energy Services, L.P., among others. In Transportation and Treating segment, it competes with other intrastate and interstate pipeline companies that transport NGLs in the southwestern region of the United States. These operations include NGL pipelines operated by DCP; Enterprise Partners, L.P.; Lonestar NGL, LLC; and ONEOK Partners, L.P. The Company's operations are in substantial compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations and compliance with existing federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations.
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