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Blonder Tongue Laboratories (Blonder Tongue Laboratories) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $3.98 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Blonder Tongue Laboratories Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Blonder Tongue Laboratories's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.76 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $3.98 Mil.


Blonder Tongue Laboratories Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Blonder Tongue Laboratories'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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Blonder Tongue Laboratories Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Blonder Tongue Laboratories 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 8.01 7.61 6.23 5.82 3.98

Blonder Tongue Laboratories Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 1.37 1.35 0.95 0.91 0.76

Competitive Comparison of Blonder Tongue Laboratories's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Blonder Tongue Laboratories'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.


Blonder Tongue Laboratories's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Blonder Tongue Laboratories's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Blonder Tongue Laboratories 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.98 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.


Blonder Tongue Laboratories  (OTCPK:BDRL) 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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Blonder Tongue Laboratories (Blonder Tongue Laboratories) Business Description

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Address
One Jake Brown Road, Old Bridge, NJ, USA, 08857
Blonder Tongue Laboratories Inc is a technology development and manufacturing company that provides television signal encoding, transcoding, digital transport, and broadband product solutions in the United States. The company serves the multi-dwelling unit market, the lodging/hospitality market, and the institutional market, including hospitals, prisons, and schools, throughout the United States and Canada. The Company's revenues are derived from customers in the continental United States; it also derives some revenues from customers in other geographical markets like Canada and to a more limited extent, in developing countries.
Executives
Williams James H /nj/ director C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES INC, ONE JAKE BROWN RD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
Palle Robert J Jr director, 10 percent owner, officer: President and COO C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES INC, ONE JAKE BROWN ROAD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
Eric S Skolnik officer: Senior Vice President - CFO C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES INC, ONE JAKE BROWN ROAD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
John E Burke director 1540 BARDSEY LANE, LOWER GWYNEDD PA 19002
Anthony J Bruno director C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES, INC., ONE JAKE BROWN ROAD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
Cavalry Fund I Lp 10 percent owner 82 EAST ALLENDALE ROAD, SUITE 5B, SADDLE RIVER NJ 07458
Michael Hawkey director 2160 GOLD STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95002
Rick E Briggs director C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES, INC., ONE JAKE BROWN ROAD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
Edward Rowland Grauch officer: CEO & President 3208 HIGHWAY 98, MEXICO BEACH FL 32456
Jeffrey W Smith officer: Vice President - Sales C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES, INC., ONE JAKE BROWN ROAD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
Ronald Vincent Alterio officer: VP-Engineering, CTO C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES, ONE JAKE BROWN ROAD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
Gary P Scharmett director
Steven L Shea director C/O BLONDER TONGUE LABORATORIES, INC., ONE JAKE BROWN ROAD, OLD BRIDGE NJ 08857
Stephen K Necessary director
Bruce A Gureck officer: Exec VP/COO 4671 BOCAIRE BLVD, BOCA RATON FL 33487