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FRMO (FRMO) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.37 Mil (TTM As of May. 2014)


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What is FRMO Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. FRMO's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in May. 2014 was $0.37 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in May. 2014 was $0.37 Mil.


FRMO Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

FRMO Annual Data
Trend Feb00 Feb01 Feb02 Feb03 Feb04 May12 May13 May14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.03 0.05 0.45 0.36 0.37

FRMO Semi-Annual Data
Feb00 Feb01 Feb02 Feb03 Feb04 May12 May13 May14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.03 0.05 0.45 0.36 0.37

Competitive Comparison of FRMO's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, FRMO'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.


FRMO's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, FRMO's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



FRMO 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 May. 2014 was $0.37 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.


FRMO  (OTCPK:FRMO) 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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FRMO (FRMO) Business Description

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Address
1 North Lexington Avenue, Suite 12C, White Plains, NY, USA, 10601
FRMO Corp is focused its activities on making strategic investments in public and private companies.
Executives
Steven Bregman director, 10 percent owner, officer: President HORIZON KINETICS LLC, 470 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, 4TH FLOOR SOUTH, NEW YORK NY 10016
Santa Monica Partners Lp director 1865 PALMER AVENUE, LARCHMONT NY 10538
Lawrence J Goldstein director 1865 PALMER AVE 108, LARCHMONT NY 10538
Jay P Hirschson director 747 GREENWICH ST, SUITE 400, NEW YORK NY 10014
Murray Stahl director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO C/O HORIZON KINETICS LLC, 470 PARK AVE S 8TH FL S, NEW YORK NY 10016
Peter Doyle director, 10 percent owner, officer: Vice President, other: Secretary 470 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, 8TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10016
Lester J Tanner director, officer: Secretary 100 PARK AVENUE SUITE 3302, NEW YORK NY 10017
Allan Kornfeld director 123 WILD DUNES WAY, JACKSON NJ 08527

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