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SQI Diagnostics (SQI Diagnostics) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $3.56 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2023)


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What is SQI Diagnostics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. SQI Diagnostics's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2023 was $0.81 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2023 was $3.56 Mil.


SQI Diagnostics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

SQI Diagnostics Annual Data
Trend Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.23 2.33 3.14 2.62 4.92

SQI Diagnostics Quarterly Data
Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.00 1.36 0.47 0.92 0.81

Competitive Comparison of SQI Diagnostics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, SQI Diagnostics'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.


SQI Diagnostics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry

For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, SQI Diagnostics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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SQI Diagnostics 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.56 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.


SQI Diagnostics  (OTCPK:SQIDF) 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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SQI Diagnostics (SQI Diagnostics) Business Description

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36 Meteor Drive, Toronto, ON, CAN, M9W 1A4
SQI Diagnostics Inc is the leader in the field of lung health. The company develops and manufactures respiratory health and precision medicine tests that run on SQI's automated systems. The company is developing tests to simplify and improve COVID-19 antibody monitoring, rapid acute lung injury testing, donor organ transplant informatics, and immunological protein and antibody testing. Its geographical segments are the United States, Canada, and Europe. Canada accounts for more than half of its revenues.

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