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Singer Finance Lanka (COL:SFIN.N0000) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : රු Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Singer Finance Lanka Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

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


Singer Finance Lanka Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Singer Finance Lanka's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Singer Finance Lanka's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Credit Services subindustry, Singer Finance Lanka'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.


Singer Finance Lanka's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Credit Services Industry

For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, Singer Finance Lanka's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Singer Finance Lanka 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.


Singer Finance Lanka  (COL:SFIN.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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Singer Finance Lanka (COL:SFIN.N0000) Business Description

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No. 498, R.A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo, LKA, 03
Singer Finance Lanka PLC operates as a finance leasing company. Its activities consist of finance leasing. gold loans, financing of consumer durables under loan schemes and granting loans, factoring, authorized foreign currency dealers, and mobilizing fixed deposits and savings deposits.. The company's segment includes Finance Leases; Loans and Advances; and Others. It generates maximum revenue from the Loan and Advances segment.

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