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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Asiatic Laboratories's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
six
months ended in . 20 was BDT0.00 Mil.
Asiatic Laboratories does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.
Asiatic Laboratories (DHA:ASIATICLAB) 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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Asiatic Laboratories Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
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The historical data trend for Asiatic Laboratories's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:
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DHA:ASIATICLAB vs ZTS, UTHR, VTRS: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison
For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Asiatic Laboratories'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.
Asiatic Laboratories Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Drug Manufacturers Industry
For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Asiatic Laboratories's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Asiatic Laboratories's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Asiatic Laboratories 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.
What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of BDT Mil mean?
Asiatic Laboratories (DHA:ASIATICLAB) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of BDT Mil as of . 20. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Asiatic Laboratories and its competitors.
Is Asiatic Laboratories' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Asiatic Laboratories' current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is BDT Mil. Overall, Asiatic Laboratories has a GF Score™ of 32/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Asiatic Laboratories' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to ZTS and UTHR?
Asiatic Laboratories' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of BDT Mil can be compared against companies in the Drug Manufacturers industry. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for a Drug Manufacturers company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Drug Manufacturers industry context. However, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense mean?
A high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Asiatic Laboratories and its competitors. Asiatic Laboratories's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is BDT Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Asiatic Laboratories stock overvalued right now?
Asiatic Laboratories (DHA:ASIATICLAB) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of BDT Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is BDT Mil. Asiatic Laboratories' overall GF Score™ is 32/100 with 1 warning sign to review. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Selling, General, & Admin. Expense calculated?
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is calculated from a company's financial statements. For Asiatic Laboratories (DHA:ASIATICLAB), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is BDT Mil as of . 20. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.
Asiatic Laboratories Ltd is engaged in manufacturing and marketing of a wide range of the rapeutical medicines pharmaceutical products in the categories of Biological, Non-Biological & Sterile Pharmaceutical dosage. It has 80 generic molecules comprising therapeutic classes like antibiotics, antihistamines, bronchodilators, vitamins-minerals, antiulcerants, laxatives, gastroprokinetics, antihematinic, anthelmentics, CNS drugs, respiratory drugs, NSAIDs, dermatological preparations and sterile ophthalmic preparations.
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