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Anglogold Ashanti (Anglogold Ashanti) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $81 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2023)


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What is Anglogold Ashanti Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Anglogold Ashanti's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2023 was $44 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2023 was $81 Mil.


Anglogold Ashanti Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Anglogold Ashanti Annual Data
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Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Anglogold Ashanti Semi-Annual Data
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Competitive Comparison of Anglogold Ashanti's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Gold subindustry, Anglogold Ashanti'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.


Anglogold Ashanti's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Anglogold Ashanti's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Anglogold Ashanti's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Anglogold Ashanti 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 Jun. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $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.


Anglogold Ashanti  (NYSE:AU) 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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Anglogold Ashanti (Anglogold Ashanti) Business Description

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Address
112 Oxford Road, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, GT, ZAF, 2198
Anglogold Ashanti PLC is one of the gold miners. The company also produces silver and sulphuric acid as by-products. Its operating divisions are Africa, Australia, and the Americas. The firm generates a majority of its revenue from Africa which includes Ghana, Guinea, Mali, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania.

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