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Turbodyne Technologies (Turbodyne Technologies) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.10 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2010)


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What is Turbodyne Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Turbodyne Technologies's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2010 was $0.00 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2010 was $0.10 Mil.


Turbodyne Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Turbodyne Technologies'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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Turbodyne Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Turbodyne Technologies Annual Data
Trend Dec02 Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.26 0.87 0.96 0.39 0.32

Turbodyne Technologies Quarterly Data
Mar06 Jun06 Sep06 Dec06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07 Dec07 Mar08 Jun08 Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Dec10 Dec11
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Competitive Comparison of Turbodyne Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Turbodyne Technologies'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.


Turbodyne Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Turbodyne Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Turbodyne Technologies 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 Dec. 2010 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.10 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.


Turbodyne Technologies  (GREY:TRBD) 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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Turbodyne Technologies (Turbodyne Technologies) Business Description

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888 Seventh Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10106
Turbodyne Technologies Inc designs and develops forced-air induction (air-charging) technologies that improve the performance of gas and diesel internal combustion engines.

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