Sycamore Networks (Sycamore Networks) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $20.37 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2013)

Sycamore Networks Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Sycamore Networks Annual Data
	Trend	Jul03	Jul04	Jul05	Jul06	Jul07	Jul08	Jul09	Jul10	Jul11	Jul12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					37.02	22.75	20.04	18.95	19.20

Sycamore Networks Quarterly Data
	Apr08	Jul08	Oct08	Jan09	Apr09	Jul09	Oct09	Jan10	Apr10	Jul10	Oct10	Jan11	Apr11	Jul11	Oct11	Jan12	Apr12	Jul12	Oct12	Jan13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															4.70	4.53	5.32	5.47	5.05

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Sycamore Networks'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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Sycamore Networks's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Sycamore Networks's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Sycamore Networks 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 Jan. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $20.37 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.

Sycamore Networks  (OTCPK:SCMR) 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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