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Stornoway Diamond (Stornoway Diamond) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $12.7 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2019)


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What is Stornoway Diamond Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Stornoway Diamond's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2019 was $3.7 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2019 was $12.7 Mil.


Stornoway Diamond Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Stornoway Diamond Annual Data
Trend Apr09 Apr10 Apr11 Apr12 Apr13 Apr14 Apr15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.52 7.51 7.61 13.97 13.49

Stornoway Diamond Quarterly Data
Jul14 Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19
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Competitive Comparison of Stornoway Diamond's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Precious Metals & Mining subindustry, Stornoway Diamond'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.


Stornoway Diamond's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

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

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



Stornoway Diamond 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 Jun. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $12.7 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.


Stornoway Diamond  (OTCPK:SWYDF) 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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Stornoway Diamond (Stornoway Diamond) Business Description

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1111 St. Charles Street West, Tour Ouest, Suite 400, Longueuil, QC, CAN, J4K 5G4
Stornoway Diamond Corp is a leading Canadian diamond exploration and producing company. Its principal business is the development of its flagship asset, the fully-owned Renard Mine, located in Quebec, Canada. The company intends to grow its business through the exploration and development of its mines. Stornoway also holds interests in a portfolio of exploration assets across Canada through owned properties and joint ventures. These properties and joint ventures include projects such as Adamantin, Qilalugaq and Pikoo.

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