FERN (Fernhill) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $1.66 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2008)

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What is Fernhill Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Fernhill FERN Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.66 Mil as of Mar. 2008.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Fernhill's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2008 was $0.29 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2008 was $1.66 Mil.


Fernhill  (OTCPK:FERN) 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.


Fernhill Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms


Fernhill Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Fernhill'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.

Fernhill Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Fernhill Annual Data
Trend Dec99 Dec00 Dec01 Dec02 Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 0.05 0.24 0.43 1.32 1.62

Fernhill Quarterly Data
Jun03 Sep03 Dec03 Mar04 Jun04 Sep04 Dec04 Mar05 Jun05 Sep05 Dec05 Mar06 Jun06 Sep06 Dec06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07 Dec07 Mar08
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FERN vs APGA, MAVT, FASV: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Software - Application subindustry, Fernhill'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.


Fernhill Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Fernhill's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Fernhill 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 Mar. 2008 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.66 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.66 Mil mean?
Fernhill (FERN) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.66 Mil as of Mar. 2008. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Fernhill and its competitors.
Is Fernhill's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Fernhill's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.66 Mil.
How does Fernhill's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to APGA and MAVT?
Fernhill's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.66 Mil can be compared against companies in the Software 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 Software company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Software 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 Fernhill and its competitors. Fernhill's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.66 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Fernhill stock overvalued right now?
Fernhill (FERN) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.66 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.66 Mil. 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 Fernhill (FERN), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.66 Mil as of Mar. 2008. 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.

Fernhill Business Description

Address 9107 West Russell, Suite 110, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 89148-1233
Fernhill Corp is a developer and acquirer of high-performance proprietary software focused on tokenization, digital asset trading, and infrastructure applications designed to simplify, automate, and democratize the blockchain ecosystem. It owns and operates SaaS software platforms, PerfectMine.io for digital asset mining operations management and monitoring, and MainBloq.io, which provides a non-custody digital asset trading platform for algorithmic trading, smart order routing, wallet rebalancing, and risk metrics. In addition, it has developed a proprietary Tokenization as a Service platform, DIGXNFT, which provides tokenization for digital and real-world assets, as well as a marketplace to tokenize, market, and sell tokenized assets, and is also available as a B2B white-label platform.