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Meghna Petroleum (DHA:MPETROLEUM) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : BDT333 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Meghna Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Meghna Petroleum's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was BDT339 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was BDT333 Mil.


Meghna Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Meghna Petroleum'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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Meghna Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Meghna Petroleum Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Meghna Petroleum Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Meghna Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing subindustry, Meghna Petroleum'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.


Meghna Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Meghna Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Meghna Petroleum 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 BDT333 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.


Meghna Petroleum  (DHA:MPETROLEUM) 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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Meghna Petroleum (DHA:MPETROLEUM) Business Description

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58-59 Agrabad Commercial Area, Chittagong, BGD, 4100
Meghna Petroleum Ltd is engaged in the business of petroleum oil and its related products. The company is involved in the procurement, storage, and marketing of petroleum products, lubricants oil and grease, bitumen, liquefied petroleum gas, and battery water in Bangladesh. The business has two reportable segments- petroleum products and lubricants oil and grease.

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