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Jiayuan.com International (Jiayuan.com International) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $46.7 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2015)


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What is Jiayuan.com International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Jiayuan.com International's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2015 was $10.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 was $46.7 Mil.


Jiayuan.com International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Jiayuan.com International'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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Jiayuan.com International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Jiayuan.com International Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 12.36 27.54 31.73 38.89 50.22

Jiayuan.com International Quarterly Data
Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15
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Competitive Comparison of Jiayuan.com International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Jiayuan.com International'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.


Jiayuan.com International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Jiayuan.com International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Jiayuan.com International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Jiayuan.com International 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 Sep. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $46.7 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.


Jiayuan.com International  (NAS:DATE) 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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Jiayuan.com International (Jiayuan.com International) Business Description

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Jiayuan.com International Ltd was founded in October 2003. The Company, through its subsidiaries, the Group, operates online dating platform in China. It is engaged in providing a trusted, effective, and user focused online dating platform that addresses the dating and marriage needs of China's rapidly growing urban singles population. Its segments include: Online Services and Personalized Matchmaking Services. Online Services; the Group provides two types of online services through its online platforms, including message exchanging services and value-added services. Users prepay for virtual currencies that can be used as consideration for the Group's online services. The Group charges for message exchanging services when one registered user initiates contact with another registered user via the Group's online platform, and either the sender or recipient may pay for the service. Subsequently, the Group does not charge for any message exchanges between the same two users. Personalized Matchmaking Services, the Group provides personalized matchmaking services to individual users, which generally consist of unlimited access to certain online services, tickets to a number of events, personalized communications, provision of detailed background checks, dating and relationship consultation and advice and search services provided by the Group's customer service representatives in a specified contractual period. The Group's competitors include: Baihe.com, Zhenai.com and Youyuan.com.

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