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GLGLF (GLG Life Tech) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1.64 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2024)


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What is GLG Life Tech Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. GLG Life Tech's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was $0.29 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $1.64 Mil.


GLG Life Tech Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for GLG Life Tech'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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GLG Life Tech Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

GLG Life Tech 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 5.29 3.40 2.73 1.48 1.99

GLG Life Tech Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 0.49 0.63 0.38 0.34 0.29

Competitive Comparison of GLG Life Tech's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Farm Products subindustry, GLG Life Tech'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.


GLG Life Tech's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, GLG Life Tech's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



GLG Life Tech 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.64 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.


GLG Life Tech  (OTCPK:GLGLF) 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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GLG Life Tech Business Description

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Address
13071 Vanier Place, Suite 280, Richmond, BC, CAN, V6V 2J1
GLG Life Tech Corp is engaged in the manufacturing and sales of refined forms of stevia and monk fruit. It operates through a single segment of Natural Sweeteners Products. Some of its brands are RebPure, TasteBoost, BevSweet, BakeZeroCal, and GoZero. The company's geographical segments are China and North America, of which the majority of its revenue comes from North America.