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Vast Renewables (Vast Renewables) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $12.87 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2023)


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What is Vast Renewables Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Vast Renewables's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2023 was $9.83 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2023 was $12.87 Mil.


Vast Renewables Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Vast Renewables Annual Data
Trend Jun20 Jun21 Jun22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
- 4.43 6.13

Vast Renewables Semi-Annual Data
Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense - 2.92 3.22 3.04 9.83

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

For the Solar subindustry, Vast Renewables'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.


Vast Renewables's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Vast Renewables's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Vast Renewables 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. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $12.87 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.


Vast Renewables  (NAS:VSTE) 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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Vast Renewables (Vast Renewables) Business Description

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226-230 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, AUS, 2010
Vast Solar Pty Ltd is a clean, renewable energy company specializing in the design and manufacturing of concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) systems to generate carbon-free, utility-scale electricity, industrial heat, and green fuels. The Company's differentiated modular CSP system, utilizing proprietary sodium loop heat transfer technology, provides customers with a solution to the enduring challenge of intermittent renewable energy through 24/7 dispatchable power and heat.

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