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RINO International (RINO International) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $21.1 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2010)


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What is RINO International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. RINO International's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2010 was $6.4 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2010 was $21.1 Mil.


RINO International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

RINO International Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.03 0.69 14.73 31.56 16.99

RINO International Quarterly Data
Dec05 Mar06 Jun06 Sep06 Dec06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07 Dec07 Mar08 Jun08 Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10
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Competitive Comparison of RINO International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Shell Companies subindustry, RINO International'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.


RINO International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, RINO International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



RINO International 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. 2010 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $21.1 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.


RINO International  (OTCPK:RINO) 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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RINO International (RINO International) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
101 East Park Boulevard, 6th Floor, Plano, TX, USA, 75074
Website
RINO International Corp is in the business of identifying and acquiring strategic intellectual property in the agricultural technology, biotechnologies, and energy industries.
Executives
Glenn Little director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO & CFO 211 WEST WALL ST, MIDLAND TX 70701

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