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Kegalle Plantations (COL:KGAL.N0000) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : රු Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Kegalle Plantations Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Kegalle Plantations's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in . 20 was රු0.00 Mil. Kegalle Plantations does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


Kegalle Plantations Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Kegalle Plantations's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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

For the Farm Products subindustry, Kegalle Plantations'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.


Kegalle Plantations's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Kegalle Plantations's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Kegalle Plantations 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.


Kegalle Plantations  (COL:KGAL.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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Kegalle Plantations (COL:KGAL.N0000) Business Description

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Address
No. 310, High Level Road, Nawinna, Maharagama, LKA
Kegalle Plantations PLC's operating segment includes Rubber; Tea; Coconut; Oilpalm, Other Crops and the Sale of Rubber Trees. It generates maximum revenue from the Rubber segment. The company's services consist of construction, insurance, stock broking, financial services, fund management, logistics, and interiors services. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from Sri Lanka.

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