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CeCors (CeCors) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $4.13 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2008)


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What is CeCors Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. CeCors's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2008 was $2.24 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2008 was $4.13 Mil.


CeCors Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

CeCors Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
3.09 11.27 8.76

CeCors Quarterly Data
Dec05 Mar06 Jun06 Sep06 Dec06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07 Dec07 Mar08 Jun08 Sep08
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.79 0.53 0.88 0.48 2.24

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

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, CeCors'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.


CeCors's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, CeCors's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



CeCors 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 Sep. 2008 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4.13 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.


CeCors  (OTCPK:CEOS) 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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CeCors (CeCors) Business Description

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Address
190 Norseman Street, Suite 100, Etobicoke, ON, CAN, M8Z 2R4
CeCors Inc is engaged in the acquisition and development of healthcare companies for healthcare supplies and healthcare equipment. The company is engaged in the development of new healthcare technologies and will continue to develop additional markets through healthcare IT and other related entities.