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CounterPath (TSX:PATH) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$8.79 Mil (TTM As of Oct. 2020)


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What is CounterPath Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. CounterPath's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Oct. 2020 was C$2.39 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2020 was C$8.79 Mil.


CounterPath Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

CounterPath Annual Data
Trend Apr11 Apr12 Apr13 Apr14 Apr15 Apr16 Apr17 Apr18 Apr19 Apr20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.64 9.49 10.24 10.92 8.96

CounterPath Quarterly Data
Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18 Jan19 Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20
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 2.12 1.95 2.33 2.11 2.39

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, CounterPath'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.


CounterPath's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, CounterPath's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



CounterPath 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 Oct. 2020 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$8.79 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.


CounterPath  (TSX:PATH) 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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CounterPath (TSX:PATH) Business Description

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CounterPath Corp designs develop and sell software and services that enable enterprises and telecommunication service providers to deliver Unified Communications (UC) services, including voice, video, messaging, and collaboration functionality. Its activities consisted primarily of selling IP telephony software and related services to telecom service providers, enterprises, and channel partners serving the telecom and enterprise segments.

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