China Runji Cement (China Runji Cement) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $5.72 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2011)

China Runji Cement Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

China Runji Cement Quarterly Data
	Apr06	Jul06	Oct06	Jan07	Apr07	Jul07	Oct07	Feb08	May08	Aug08	Nov08	Feb09	May09	Aug09	Nov09	Feb10	May10	Aug10	Nov10	Feb11
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.02	0.50	0.92	0.77	3.53

Competitive Comparison of China Runji Cement's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Building Materials subindustry, China Runji Cement'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.

China Runji Cement's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Building Materials Industry

For the Building Materials industry and Basic Materials sector, China Runji Cement's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where China Runji Cement's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.

China Runji Cement 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 Feb. 2011 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $5.72 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.

China Runji Cement  (GREY:CRJI) 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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