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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile (Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $75 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $31 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $75 Mil.


Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile'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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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 57.49 116.01 90.36 79.16 74.95

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile'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.


Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $75 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.


Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile  (NYSE:SQM) 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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Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile (Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile) Business Description

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Address
El Trovador 4285, 6th Floor, Las Condes, Santiago, CHL
Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile is a Chilean commodities producer with significant operations in lithium (primarily used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems), specialty and standard potassium fertilizers, iodine (primarily used in X-ray contrast media), and solar salts. The company extracts these materials through its high-quality salt brine deposits and caliche ore. SQM is also developing a hard rock lithium project in Australia and is growing its lithium refining assets in China.
Executives
Sailingstone Capital Partners Llc 10 percent owner 100 WAUGH DRIVE, SUITE 600, HOUSTON TX 77007
Sailingstone Holdings Llc 10 percent owner 1 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3050, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Mackenzie B Davis 10 percent owner 1 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3050, SAN FRANCISCO CA 941111
Settles Kenneth L Jr 10 percent owner 1 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3050, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111