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Changming Industrial Management Group Holding (Changming Industrial Management Group Holding) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1.30 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2009)


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What is Changming Industrial Management Group Holding Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Changming Industrial Management Group Holding's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2009 was $0.11 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2009 was $1.30 Mil.


Changming Industrial Management Group Holding Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Changming Industrial Management Group Holding'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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Changming Industrial Management Group Holding Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Changming Industrial Management Group Holding Annual Data
Trend May07 May08
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.03 0.02

Changming Industrial Management Group Holding Quarterly Data
Nov06 Feb07 May07 Aug07 Nov07 Feb08 May08 Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 Jun09
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.01 - 0.46 0.72 0.11

Competitive Comparison of Changming Industrial Management Group Holding's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Changming Industrial Management Group Holding'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.


Changming Industrial Management Group Holding's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Changming Industrial Management Group Holding's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Changming Industrial Management Group Holding's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Changming Industrial Management Group Holding 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 Jun. 2009 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.30 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.


Changming Industrial Management Group Holding  (OTCPK:CMIM) 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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Changming Industrial Management Group Holding (Changming Industrial Management Group Holding) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Room 904, Tung Wai Commercial Building, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, HKG
Changming Industrial Management Group Holding Inc is engaged in the processing and sales of mineral products as well as vanadium mining. Its product series include Product Series Vanadium ore, crystal, pentoxide, alloy, iron, and titanium alloy.

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