GPCOW (Golden Path Acquisition) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $0.91 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2022)

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What is Golden Path Acquisition Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Golden Path Acquisition GPCOW Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.91 Mil as of Jun. 2022. The stock has 1 warning sign investors should review.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Golden Path Acquisition's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2022 was $0.12 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 was $0.91 Mil.


Golden Path Acquisition  (NAS:GPCOW) 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.


Golden Path Acquisition Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms


Golden Path Acquisition Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Golden Path Acquisition'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.

Golden Path Acquisition Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Golden Path Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.00 0.03 0.73

Golden Path Acquisition Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.14 0.40 0.13 0.26 0.12

GPCOW vs NOVV, GDST, PPHP: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Golden Path Acquisition'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.


Golden Path Acquisition Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Diversified Financial Services Industry

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

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



Golden Path Acquisition 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 Jun. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.91 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 $0.91 Mil mean?
Golden Path Acquisition (GPCOW) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $0.91 Mil as of Jun. 2022. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Golden Path Acquisition and its competitors.
Is Golden Path Acquisition's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Golden Path Acquisition's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.91 Mil.
How does Golden Path Acquisition's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to NOVV and GDST?
Golden Path Acquisition's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $0.91 Mil can be compared against companies in the Diversified Financial Services 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 Diversified Financial Services company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Diversified Financial Services 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 Golden Path Acquisition and its competitors. Golden Path Acquisition's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.91 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Golden Path Acquisition stock overvalued right now?
Golden Path Acquisition (GPCOW) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $0.91 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.91 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 Golden Path Acquisition (GPCOW), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.91 Mil as of Jun. 2022. 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.

Golden Path Acquisition Business Description

Address 100 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10017
Golden Path Acquisition Corp is a blank check company. It is formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, entering into contractual arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses.