Carabella Resources (ASX:CLR) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$6.80 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2013)

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What is Carabella 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. Carabella Resources's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2013 was A$2.96 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2013 was A$6.80 Mil.

Carabella Resources Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Carabella Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Carabella Resources Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Carabella Resources Annual Data

Trend

Jun10

Jun11

Jun12

Jun13

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

4.12

7.05

6.80

Carabella Resources Semi-Annual Data
	Dec10	Jun11	Dec11	Jun12	Dec12	Jun13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial			2.72	3.14	3.91	3.83	2.96

Competitive Comparison of Carabella Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Coking Coal subindustry, Carabella 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.

Carabella Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, Carabella Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

Carabella 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 Jun. 2013 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$6.80 Mil.

Carabella Resources (ASX:CLR) 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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