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Nevsun Resources (Nevsun Resources) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $29.6 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2018)


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What is Nevsun Resources Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Nevsun Resources's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2018 was $13.6 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 was $29.6 Mil.


Nevsun Resources Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Nevsun Resources Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 12.63 15.87 11.87 18.69 17.82

Nevsun Resources Quarterly Data
Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18
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 5.55 1.60 5.43 9.02 13.57

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

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Nevsun Resources'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.


Nevsun Resources's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

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

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



Nevsun Resources 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. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $29.6 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.


Nevsun Resources  (AMEX:NSU) 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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Nevsun Resources (Nevsun Resources) Business Description

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Address
1066 West Hastings Street, Suite 1750, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6E 3X1
Nevsun Resources Ltd is involved in acquisition, exploration, development and operation of mineral property interests. The company primarily engages in copper and zinc production at Bisha, a large, high-grade volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit located 150km west of Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa. The company generates revenue through the sale of copper and zinc concentrates which contain gold and silver by-products. Bisha is mined using conventional drill and blast open pit mining techniques to remove waste and deliver ore to the run of mine stock pile. Nevsun Resources also operates a high-grade copper and gold Timok project, a high-grade deposit located in the Bor mining district, in Serbia.