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CardioGenics Holdings (CardioGenics Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.55 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2016)


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What is CardioGenics 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. CardioGenics Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jan. 2016 was $0.14 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2016 was $0.55 Mil.


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

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

CardioGenics Holdings Annual Data
Trend Jul06 Jul07 Jul08 Oct09 Oct10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct13 Oct14 Oct15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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CardioGenics Holdings Quarterly Data
Apr11 Jul11 Oct11 Jan12 Apr12 Jul12 Oct12 Jan13 Apr13 Jul13 Oct13 Jan14 Apr14 Jul14 Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Jan16
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Competitive Comparison of CardioGenics Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, CardioGenics 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.


CardioGenics Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry

For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, CardioGenics Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



CardioGenics 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 Jan. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.55 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.


CardioGenics Holdings  (OTCPK:CGNH) 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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CardioGenics Holdings (CardioGenics Holdings) Business Description

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6295 Northam Drive, Unit 8, Mississauga, ON, CAN, L4V 1W8
CardioGenics Holdings Inc is a biotechnology company. It is engaged in the development and commercialization of diagnostic test products for the In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) testing market. The company's objective is to create, develop and commercialize superior, innovative, cost-effective and patent-protected products for the IVD based on proprietary technologies. Its products include QL Care Analyzer, Immunoassay Tests, and Paramagnetic Beads. The business activity is primarily carried out through the region of Canada.

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