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Copperbelt Energy (LUS:CECZ) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ZMW Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Copperbelt Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Copperbelt Energy's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in . 20 was ZMW0.00 Mil. Copperbelt Energy does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


Copperbelt Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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Copperbelt Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Copperbelt Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Utilities - Regulated Electric subindustry, Copperbelt Energy'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.


Copperbelt Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Copperbelt Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Copperbelt Energy 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.


Copperbelt Energy  (LUS:CECZ) 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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Copperbelt Energy (LUS:CECZ) Business Description

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3614, 23rd Avenue, P. O. Box 20819, Nkana East, Kitwe, ZMB
Copperbelt Energy Corp PLC is a Zambia-based electricity company. The company is engaged in the business of supply, transmission, distribution, and generation of electricity. The company also holds interests in telecommunications. The company's power business customers are the mining companies operating in the SAPP that access transmission services. The company builds fiber networks through a joint venture and provides wholesale bandwidth in the telecommunication business. The company generates revenue from the activities of Electricity transmission, Wheeling-domestic, and Power trading, of which key revenue is derived from the electricity transmission activity.

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