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PSource Structured Debt (LSE:PSD) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £ Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2012)


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What is PSource Structured Debt Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. PSource Structured Debt's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2012 was £0.00 Mil. PSource Structured Debt does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2012.


PSource Structured Debt Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for PSource Structured Debt's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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PSource Structured Debt Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

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Competitive Comparison of PSource Structured Debt's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, PSource Structured Debt'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.


PSource Structured Debt's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, PSource Structured Debt's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



PSource Structured Debt 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.


PSource Structured Debt  (LSE:PSD) 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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