Diamond S Shipping Group (Diamond S Shipping Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $ Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2013)

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What is Diamond S Shipping Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Diamond S Shipping Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Mar. 2013 was $11.73 Mil. Diamond S Shipping Group does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2013.

Diamond S Shipping Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Diamond S Shipping Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Diamond S Shipping Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Diamond S Shipping Group Annual Data

Trend

Mar12

Mar13

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

9.72

11.73

Diamond S Shipping Group Semi-Annual Data
	Mar12	Mar13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	9.72	11.73

Competitive Comparison of Diamond S Shipping Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Marine Shipping subindustry, Diamond S Shipping Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

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Diamond S Shipping Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Diamond S Shipping Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Diamond S Shipping Group 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.

Diamond S Shipping Group (NYSE:DSG) 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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Diamond S Shipping Group (Diamond S Shipping Group) Business Description

Industry

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Traded in Other Exchanges

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Address

Website

http://www.diamondsshipping.com

Diamond S Shipping Group Inc, is incorporated in Marshall Islands on July 31, 2013. The Company provides seaborne transportation of refined petroleum and other products in the international shipping markets. The Company is the owners and operators of medium range, or MR, product tankers. The Company's fleet currently consists of 33 MR product tankers built at Korean and Japanese shipyards. The Company competes on basis of price, vessel location, size, age and condition of the vessel. The Company is subject to various international conventions, national, state and local laws and regulations in the countries in which its vessels may operate or are registered.