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Discovery Metals (ASX:DML) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$10.9 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2014)


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What is Discovery Metals Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Discovery Metals's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2014 was A$10.9 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2014 was A$10.9 Mil.


Discovery Metals Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Discovery Metals'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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Discovery Metals Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Discovery Metals Annual Data
Trend Jun05 Jun06 Jun07 Jun08 Jun09 Jun10 Jun11 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.52 9.25 11.73 16.22 10.93

Discovery Metals Semi-Annual Data
Jun04 Jun05 Jun06 Jun07 Jun08 Jun09 Jun10 Jun11 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.52 9.25 11.73 16.22 10.93

Competitive Comparison of Discovery Metals's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Discovery Metals'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.


Discovery Metals's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Discovery Metals's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Discovery Metals 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.

For stock reported annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data. Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2014 was A$10.9 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.


Discovery Metals  (ASX:DML) 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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Discovery Metals (ASX:DML) Business Description

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Discovery Metals Limited (DML) is incorporated in Australia. It is engaged in nickel and copper exploration company. The company focuses on the exploration and development on its two major projects in Botswana being the Maun Copper Project and the Dikoloti Nickel Project.

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