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M17 Entertainment (M17 Entertainment) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $ Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2017)


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What is M17 Entertainment Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. M17 Entertainment's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2017 was $42.94 Mil. M17 Entertainment does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2017.


M17 Entertainment Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for M17 Entertainment's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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M17 Entertainment Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

M17 Entertainment Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
- 5.68 42.94

M17 Entertainment Semi-Annual Data
Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense - 5.68 42.94

Competitive Comparison of M17 Entertainment's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, M17 Entertainment'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.


M17 Entertainment's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, M17 Entertainment's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where M17 Entertainment's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



M17 Entertainment 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.


M17 Entertainment  (NYSE:YQ) 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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