What is FX Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?
Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. FX Energy's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $2.54 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 was $11.15 Mil.
FX Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for FX Energy'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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FX Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
Competitive Comparison of FX Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, FX Energy'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.
FX Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, FX Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where FX Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
FX Energy 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 Sep. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $11.15 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.
FX Energy (NAS:FXENP.PFD) 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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FX Energy Inc was founded in 1989. The Company is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company with principal production, reserves, and exploration in Poland and oil production, oilfield service, and exploration activities in the United States. Company concentrates its exploration efforts in Poland on the Rotliegend sandstones of the Permian Basin. As of December 31, 2013, Company held oil and gas exploration rights in Poland in a number of separately designated project areas encompassing approximately 2.7 million gross acres. In Poland, it has projects involving the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas prospects in partnership with Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo or PGNiG, the Polish national oil and gas company, other industry partners, and for its own account. In the United States, it explores for and produces oil from fields in Montana and Nevada, and it have an oilfield services company in northern Montana that performs contract drilling and well-servicing operations. Company operates within two segments of the oil and gas industry: the exploration and production, or E&P, segment in Poland and the United States, and the oilfield services segment in the United States. The Company faces competition from larger oil and gas companies. The Companys oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities in Poland are subject to Polands laws and regulations and its United States operations are subject to governmental risks that may impact its operations.
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