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Telestone Technologies (Telestone Technologies) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $44.26 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2012)


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What is Telestone Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Telestone Technologies's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2012 was $13.11 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2012 was $44.26 Mil.


Telestone Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Telestone Technologies'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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Telestone Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Telestone Technologies Annual Data
Trend Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 8.43 12.61 25.24 26.04 44.26

Telestone Technologies Quarterly Data
Mar08 Jun08 Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 11.98 4.96 6.81 19.37 13.11

Competitive Comparison of Telestone Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

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

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

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Telestone Technologies 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. 2012 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $44.26 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.


Telestone Technologies  (OTCPK:TSTC) 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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Telestone Technologies (Telestone Technologies) Business Description

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Telestone Technologies Corp was organized under the laws of the State of Colorado in February 1987 under the name Shield Enterprises, Inc. In August 2004, TSTC reincorporated in the State of Delaware under the name Telestone Technologies Corporation. It provides access network solutions in China. The company's access network solutions include the research and development and application of access-network technology. In addition to its homegrown access-network equipment, which includes repeaters, antennas, and radio-frequency peripherals, the company offers project design, project management, installation, maintenance, and other after sales services to its customers. The company offers WFDS, a next generation wireless distribution system. WFDS is an all-optical network that combines the technologies of both wireless and optical telecommunications. As of December 31, 2011, it completed 499 WFDS installations. The company designs and sells electronic equipment used to provide access-network solutions to its customers. Many of these types of equipment, including WFDS products, RFPA products, passive components and base station antennas for 2G, 3G, Broadband access and CATV networks, are specialized active microwave components designed to meet the needs of its customers.The company provides systems integration services to its customers. The primary systems integration services provided to the company's customers are project design and engineering, specifically, the development and design of indoor and outdoor wireless signal complementary coverage solutions and their applied products. The company also markets its products to 29 countries, including the United States, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Ireland, Ecuador, Mongolia, South Africa, Turkey, Indonesia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and Iceland.

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