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Korea Gas (XKRX:036460) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ₩184,218 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Korea Gas Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Korea Gas's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was ₩109,346 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was ₩184,218 Mil.


Korea Gas Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Korea Gas 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 90,766.14 94,824.93 104,341.86 106,658.11 119,457.22

Korea Gas Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 43,811.91 32,070.87 27,938.72 14,862.72 109,345.68

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

For the Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, Korea Gas'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.


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

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

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Korea Gas 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 ₩184,218 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.


Korea Gas  (XKRX:036460) 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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Korea Gas (XKRX:036460) Business Description

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215 Jeongja-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, KOR, 463-754
Korea Gas Corp is a Korean natural gas utility company. The Government of Korea holds a majority stake in the firm. Korea Gas Corp holds a monopoly as the country's only natural gas distributor with a nationwide network of pipelines and storage tanks. The company segments its operations into Domestic Business and Overseas Business units. The Domestic Business division encompasses Korea Gas' liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchasing, supply, storage, and pipeline distributing activities. The company primarily buys natural gas from Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian sources. Korea Gas' total revenue is split fairly evenly between the sale of natural gas to urban consumers and to the power sector. Korean housing and industrial customers represent the majority of the firm's customer base.

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