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DatChat (DatChat) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $2.57 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is DatChat Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. DatChat's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.53 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $2.57 Mil.


DatChat Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

DatChat Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.48 0.59 7.88 4.11 2.61

DatChat Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of DatChat's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Software - Application subindustry, DatChat'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.


DatChat's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, DatChat's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



DatChat 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2.57 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.


DatChat  (NAS:DATS) 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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DatChat (DatChat) Business Description

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204 Nielsen Street, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 08901
DatChat Inc is a blockchain, cybersecurity, and social media company that not only focuses on protecting privacy on personal devices, but also protects user information after it is shared with others. Its mobile messaging application is called DatChat Messenger which is a free messaging application.
Executives
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Brett Blumberg officer: Chief Financial Officer 204 NEILSON STREET, NEW BRUNSWICK NJ 08901
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Carly Schumer director 65 CHURCH STREET, 2ND FLOOR, NEW BRUNSWICK NJ 08901
Dan Zeno officer: Chief Operating Officer 65 CHURCH STREET, 2ND FLOOR, NEW BRUNSWICK NJ 08901
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