Chilco River Holdings (Chilco River Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $ Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2006)

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What is Chilco River Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Chilco River Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2006 was $2.42 Mil. Chilco River Holdings does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2006.

Chilco River Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Chilco River Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Chilco River Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Chilco River Holdings Annual Data

Trend

Dec04

Dec05

Dec06

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

1.74

1.21

2.42

Chilco River Holdings Semi-Annual Data
	Dec04	Dec05	Dec06
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	1.74	1.21	2.42

Competitive Comparison of Chilco River Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Chilco River Holdings'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.

Chilco River Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, Chilco River Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Chilco River Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.

Chilco River Holdings 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.

Chilco River Holdings (OTCPK:CRVH) 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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