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Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA (Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $87.0 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was $21.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $87.0 Mil.


Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA'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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Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA Annual Data
Trend Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 100.00 103.02 81.21 90.43 85.49

Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
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 21.22 19.56 21.52 24.07 21.81

Competitive Comparison of Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Precious Metals & Mining subindustry, Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA'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.


Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA 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 Sep. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $87.0 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.


Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA  (NYSE:BVN) 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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Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA (Compania de Minas BuenaventuraA) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Las Begonias 415, 19th Floor, San Isidro, Lima, PER
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura SAA is a Peruvian precious metals producing company with experience in mine exploration, development, construction and operation activities.