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Alternet Systems (Alternet Systems) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.30 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2018)


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What is Alternet Systems Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Alternet Systems's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2018 was $0.15 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2018 was $0.30 Mil.


Alternet Systems Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Alternet Systems Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Alternet Systems Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Alternet Systems's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Alternet Systems'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.


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

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

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



Alternet Systems 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 Jun. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.30 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.


Alternet Systems  (OTCPK:ALYI) 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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Alternet Systems (Alternet Systems) Business Description

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5057 Keller Springs Road, Suite 600, Addison, TX, USA, 75001
Alternet Systems Inc is engaged in digital payments and data analytics, micro-segmentation, and marketing intelligence. The company's target markets include the mass consumer goods, payments, financial services, and telecommunications sectors.