Santa Fe Petroleum (Santa Fe Petroleum) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.82 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2013)

Santa Fe Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Santa Fe Petroleum Quarterly Data
	Dec10	Mar11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial						0.75	-0.41	0.17	0.93	0.13

Competitive Comparison of Santa Fe Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, Santa Fe Petroleum'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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Santa Fe Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Santa Fe Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Santa Fe Petroleum 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. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.82 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.

Santa Fe Petroleum  (OTCPK:SFPI) 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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