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Digital China Holdings (Digital China Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $194 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Digital China Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Digital China Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $120 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $194 Mil.


Digital China Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Digital China Holdings'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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Digital China Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Digital China Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 236.08 247.68 242.27 211.33 194.22

Digital China Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 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 136.72 81.11 133.44 73.75 120.25

Competitive Comparison of Digital China Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Conglomerates subindustry, Digital China Holdings'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.


Digital China Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Digital China Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Digital China Holdings 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 semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $194 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.


Digital China Holdings  (OTCPK:DCHIF) 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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Digital China Holdings (Digital China Holdings) Business Description

Address
77-79 Gloucester Road, 31st Floor, Fortis Tower, Wanchai, Hong Kong, HKG
Digital China Holdings is a holding company that through its subsidiaries provides information technology services. The company organizes itself into thre primary segments based on services provided. such as The Big Data Products and Solutions business segment, The Software and Operating Services business segment and The Traditional and Localization Services business segment. Company generates majority revenue from Traditional and Localization Services segment.

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