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VSPC (Viaspace) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.81 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2019)


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What is Viaspace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Viaspace's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2019 was $0.13 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2019 was $0.81 Mil.


Viaspace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Viaspace'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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Viaspace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Viaspace Annual Data
Trend Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.73 1.44 0.98 0.78 0.71

Viaspace Quarterly Data
Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.03 0.06 0.51 0.11 0.13

Competitive Comparison of Viaspace's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Utilities - Renewable subindustry, Viaspace'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.


Viaspace's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Utilities - Independent Power Producers Industry

For the Utilities - Independent Power Producers industry and Utilities sector, Viaspace's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Viaspace 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 Mar. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.81 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.


Viaspace  (OTCPK:VSPC) 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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Viaspace Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
344 Pine Street, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 95062
Viaspace Inc is an US-based renewable energy company. It is involved in the renewable energy based on biomass, in particular, its dedicated energy crop with the trademarked name Giant King Grass (GKC). The company focuses on GKG, which is a natural hybrid, non-genetically modified, fast-growing, perennial grass, which can be used to generate low carbon and renewable electricity by direct burning in a biomass power plant, and can be made into pellets that can replace some of the coal in existing power plants thus reducing carbon emissions. In addition, the GKC can also be used as a feedstock for biochemicals and bioplastics. Geographically, the activities are generally carried out through the region of United States.
Executives
Robert Hoegler director, 10 percent owner, officer: President #604 7040 GRANVILLE AVENUE RICHMOND A1 V6Y 3W5