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Lithium Australia (ASX:LIT) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$12.15 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Lithium Australia Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Lithium Australia's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$5.92 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$12.15 Mil.


Lithium Australia Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lithium Australia'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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Lithium Australia Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Lithium Australia Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.98 5.04 7.51 9.05 10.67

Lithium Australia Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.80 5.25 4.44 6.23 5.92

Competitive Comparison of Lithium Australia's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Lithium Australia'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.


Lithium Australia's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

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

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



Lithium Australia 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. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$12.15 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.


Lithium Australia  (ASX:LIT) 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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Lithium Australia (ASX:LIT) Business Description

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Address
677 Murray Street, Level 1, Perth, WA, AUS, 6005
Lithium Australia Ltd is engaged in the acquisition, mineral exploration, and process development, for the extraction and recovery of lithium. Its reportable segment includes Battery Recycling, Battery Materials, Chemicals, and Raw Materials. The majority of its revenue derives from the Battery Recycling segment which includes research and development of processing technology for mixed-battery recycling, as well as the sale of recovered energy metals.

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