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Wowjoint Holdings (Wowjoint Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.00 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2013)


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What is Wowjoint Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Wowjoint Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2013 was $0.00 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2013 was $0.00 Mil.


Wowjoint Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Wowjoint Holdings'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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Wowjoint Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Wowjoint Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.33 5.34 5.20 7.24 5.41

Wowjoint Holdings Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Wowjoint Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery subindustry, Wowjoint Holdings'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.


Wowjoint Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry and Industrials sector, Wowjoint Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Wowjoint Holdings 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. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.00 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.


Wowjoint Holdings  (OTCPK:BWOWF) 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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Wowjoint Holdings (Wowjoint Holdings) Business Description

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Address
No. 2 Xinfeng Road, Deshemengwai Street, 1108 A Block Tiancheng Mansion, Xicheng District, Beijing, CHN, 100088
Wowjoint Holdings Ltd provides infrastructure solutions for customized heavy duty lifting and carrying machinery used in large-scale projects. The company operates under the manufacture and marketing of non-standard heavy lifting and carrying equipment in China. The equipment and machinery are used in various engineering fields, such as bridge, road and railway construction, as well as in areas of heavy capacity lifting and transporting of concrete beams, boats, and shipping containers. Geographically all the operations are functioned through the region of China.

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