What is Tangoe Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?
Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Tangoe's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $22.45 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 was $20.77 Mil.
Tangoe Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for Tangoe'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.
Competitive Comparison of Tangoe's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Tangoe'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.
Tangoe's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Tangoe's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Tangoe's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Tangoe 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. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $20.77 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.
Tangoe (OTCPK:TNGO) 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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Tangoe Inc was incorporated in Delaware under the name TelecomRFQ, Inc. in February 2000 and changed its name to Tangoe, Inc. in December 2001. The Company provides connection lifecycle management, or CLM, software and services to a wide range of enterprises and service providers. CLM covers the entire spectrum of an enterprise's connection-based assets and services such as voice and data services, mobile devices and usage, machine-to-machine connections, cloud software and services, enterprise social and information technology connections, and encompasses the entire lifecycle of these assets and services including planning and sourcing, procurement and provisioning, inventory and usage management, mobile device management, or MDM, real-time telecommunications expense management, or rTEM, invoice processing, expense allocation and accounting, and asset decommissioning and disposal. Its solution can provide a significant return on investment by enabling an enterprise to identify and resolve billing errors, to optimize service plans for its usage patterns and needs, to manage used and unused connection assets and services, to proactively monitor usage and to prevent bill overages. As of December 31, 2013, more than 1,000 recurring revenue customers were using its software or services. It competes with technology providers and outsourced service providers selling a range of TEM, MDM, EMM and MMS solutions.
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