What is Synutra 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. Synutra International's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2016 was $35.7 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2016 was $122.4 Mil.
Synutra International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for Synutra 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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Synutra International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
Competitive Comparison of Synutra International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Synutra 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.
Synutra International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Synutra International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Synutra International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Synutra 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 Dec. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $122.4 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.
Synutra International (NAS:SYUT) 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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Synutra International (Synutra International) Business Description
Synutra International Inc was formed on October 30, 1998. The Company is engaged in the production, distribution & sales of dairy based nutritional products under Shengyuan or Synutra line of brands in China. Its other nutritional product includes prepared foods, nutritional ingredients & supplements. It is focused on selling powdered formula products for infants and adults, and is also engaged in other nutritional product offerings, such as prepared foods and certain nutritional supplements. It sells the products through an extensive nationwide sales and distribution network covering all provinces and provincial-level municipalities in mainland China. It has three reportable segments; nutritional food, nutritional supplement and other business. The Nutritional Food segment includes the sale of powdered infant and adult formula products, with brands including Super, My Angel and Dutch Cow, as well as the sale of prepared foods under the Huiliduo brand; Nutritional Supplement: includes the production and sale of nutritional supplements such as chondroitin sulfate to third parties, and microencapsulated Docosahexanoic Acid ("DHA") and Arachidonic Acid ("ARA") to the nutritional food segment for use in powdered formula production; and Other Business includes non-core businesses such as ancillary sales of excess or unusable ingredients and materials to industrial customers, providing genetic diagnostic services for new born babies, and sales of cosmetics to pregnant women. Its business requires certain key raw materials, such as milk powder and whey powder. The Company competes with both multinational and domestic infant formula producers.
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