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HK Battery Technology (HK Battery Technology) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $3.52 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2016)


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What is HK Battery Technology Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. HK Battery Technology's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2016 was $1.11 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2016 was $3.52 Mil.


HK Battery Technology Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for HK Battery Technology'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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HK Battery Technology Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

HK Battery Technology Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 1.76 1.70 1.34 1.25 2.72

HK Battery Technology Quarterly Data
Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16
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Competitive Comparison of HK Battery Technology's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Shell Companies subindustry, HK Battery Technology'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.


HK Battery Technology's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

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

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



HK Battery Technology 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. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.52 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.


HK Battery Technology  (OTCPK:HKBT) 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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HK Battery Technology (HK Battery Technology) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
800 East Colorado Boulevard, Suite 888, Pasadena, CA, USA, 91101
Website
HK Battery Technology Inc is a development stage company.
Executives
John N Braca director C/O SENESCO TECHNOLOGIES INC, 303 GEORGE ST STE 420, NEW BRUNSWICK NJ 08901
David Rector director, officer: CEO, President, Sec. & Treasur
David C. Mathewson director, 10 percent owner, officer: President 1265 MESA DRIVE, FERNLEY NV 89408

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