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ACL Cables (COL:ACL.N0000) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : රු2,391 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is ACL Cables Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. ACL Cables's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was රු687 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was රු2,391 Mil.


ACL Cables Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

ACL Cables Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,420.78 1,572.51 1,800.86 2,054.29 2,453.28

ACL Cables Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 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 674.01 520.25 526.24 656.79 687.44

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

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, ACL Cables'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.


ACL Cables's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, ACL Cables's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



ACL Cables 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 quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was රු2,391 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.


ACL Cables  (COL:ACL.N0000) 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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ACL Cables (COL:ACL.N0000) Business Description

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No. 60, Rodney Street, Colombo, LKA, 08
ACL Cables PLC is engaged in the manufacturing of cables and conductors. The company's operating segment includes Manufacturing cables; Manufacturing Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) compound and Others. It generates maximum revenue from the Manufacturing cables segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from Sri Lanka. Some of the products include building wires, control cables, service wires, telecommunication cables, auto cables, flexible cables, switches, sockets, fans, low voltage switch series, and others.

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