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GASE Energy (GASE Energy) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.56 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2014)


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What is GASE 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. GASE Energy's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was $0.07 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was $0.56 Mil.


GASE Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for GASE 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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GASE Energy Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

GASE Energy Annual Data
Trend Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.01 0.17 3.95

GASE Energy Quarterly Data
Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.65 0.12 0.23 0.14 0.07

Competitive Comparison of GASE Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Shell Companies subindustry, GASE 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.


GASE Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, GASE Energy's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



GASE 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. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.56 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.


GASE Energy  (OTCPK:GASE) 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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GASE Energy (GASE Energy) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
61 Larbert Road, Southport, CT, USA, 06890
GASE Energy Inc is a shell company.

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