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Plata Latina Minerals (TSXV:PLA) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$0.17 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Plata Latina Minerals Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Plata Latina Minerals's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was C$0.03 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was C$0.17 Mil.


Plata Latina Minerals Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Plata Latina Minerals'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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Plata Latina Minerals Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Plata Latina Minerals Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.47 0.41 0.16 0.17 0.17

Plata Latina Minerals Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Plata Latina Minerals's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Precious Metals & Mining subindustry, Plata Latina Minerals'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.


Plata Latina Minerals's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Plata Latina Minerals's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Plata Latina Minerals 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$0.17 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.


Plata Latina Minerals  (TSXV:PLA) 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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Plata Latina Minerals (TSXV:PLA) Business Description

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1100 - 1111 Melville Street, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6E 3V6
Plata Latina Minerals Corp is a Canadian exploration company. It is engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and evaluating mineral property assets, principally in Mexico. The company held interests in the some of Mexican mineral properties such as Naranjillo, Vaquerias, Palo Alto and La Joya.

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