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Net Servicos De Comunicacao (BSP:NETC4.PFD) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : R$2,105.00 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2013)


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What is Net Servicos De Comunicacao Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Net Servicos De Comunicacao's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2013 was R$2,105.00 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2013 was R$2,105.00 Mil.


Net Servicos De Comunicacao Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Net Servicos De Comunicacao'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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Net Servicos De Comunicacao Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Net Servicos De Comunicacao Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,139.72 1,387.07 1,640.21 1,899.06 2,105.00

Net Servicos De Comunicacao Semi-Annual Data
Dec96 Dec97 Dec98 Dec99 Dec00 Dec01 Dec02 Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
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 1,139.72 1,387.07 1,640.21 1,899.06 2,105.00

Competitive Comparison of Net Servicos De Comunicacao's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Broadcasting subindustry, Net Servicos De Comunicacao'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.


Net Servicos De Comunicacao's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Net Servicos De Comunicacao's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Net Servicos De Comunicacao's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Net Servicos De Comunicacao 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.

For stock reported annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data. Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2013 was R$2,105.00 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.


Net Servicos De Comunicacao  (BSP:NETC4.PFD) 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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Net Servicos De Comunicacao (BSP:NETC4.PFD) Business Description

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Net Servicos de Comunicacao SA through its holdings provides pay-television and pay-per-view programming, digital cable, high-definition cable television with digital video recorder, broadband Internet service & fixed line telephony service.

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