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Cross Border Resources (Cross Border Resources) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.64 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2015)


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What is Cross Border Resources Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Cross Border Resources's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2015 was $0.08 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2015 was $0.64 Mil.


Cross Border Resources Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cross Border Resources'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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Cross Border Resources Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Cross Border Resources Annual Data
Trend Jul06 Jul07 Jul08 Jul09 Jul10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 3.17 3.68 5.10 1.09 0.80

Cross Border Resources Quarterly Data
Apr10 Jul10 Oct10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15
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Competitive Comparison of Cross Border Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, Cross Border Resources'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.


Cross Border Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Cross Border Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Cross Border Resources 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 Mar. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.64 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.


Cross Border Resources  (OTCPK:XBOR) 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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Cross Border Resources (Cross Border Resources) Business Description

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Address
2515 McKinney Avenue, Suite 900, Dallas, TX, USA, 75201
Cross Border Resources Inc is an oil and gas Exploration Company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, operation, exploration and development of oil and gas properties and prospects.
Executives
Laroche Richard F Jr director P.O. BOX 1398, MURFREESBORO TN 37133-1398
Gray Everett Willard Ii other: Former Chief Executive Officer P. O. BOX 5375, MIDLAND TX 79704

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