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Clover Pakistan (KAR:CLOV) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ₨ Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Clover Pakistan Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Clover Pakistan's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in . 20 was ₨0.00 Mil. Clover Pakistan does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


Clover Pakistan Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Clover Pakistan's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Clover Pakistan's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Conglomerates subindustry, Clover Pakistan'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.


Clover Pakistan's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Clover Pakistan's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Clover Pakistan 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.


Clover Pakistan  (KAR:CLOV) 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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Clover Pakistan (KAR:CLOV) Business Description

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Address
M.T. Khan Road, Bunglow Number 23-B, Lalazar, Karachi, SD, PAK
Clover Pakistan Ltd is an investment holding company. The principal business of the Company includes sale of food products, consumer durables, chemicals and lubricants and also import & trade of gantry equipment's air/ oil filter and other car care products. The Company is also involved in marketing & distribution and after sales support of office automation products, fuel dispensers, vending machines and digital screens. The company's operating segment includes Business automation and related services; Petrotech and related services; Chemicals and Lubricants and Others. It generates maximum revenue from the Chemicals segment. The chemicals segment includes selling imported chemicals such as Mixed Xylene, Vinyle acetate monomer (VAM) and Hexane.