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Sao Thang Long Investment JSC (HSTC:DST) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ₫ Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Sao Thang Long Investment JSC Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Sao Thang Long Investment JSC's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in . 20 was ₫0.00 Mil. Sao Thang Long Investment JSC does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


Sao Thang Long Investment JSC Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sao Thang Long Investment JSC's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Sao Thang Long Investment JSC's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Sao Thang Long Investment JSC'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.


Sao Thang Long Investment JSC's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Sao Thang Long Investment JSC's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sao Thang Long Investment JSC's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Sao Thang Long Investment JSC 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.


Sao Thang Long Investment JSC  (HSTC:DST) 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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Sao Thang Long Investment JSC (HSTC:DST) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
13 Minh Khai Street, Nguyen Du Ward, Nam Dinh Province, Nam Dinh City, VNM
Sao Thang Long Investment JSC provides books and educational equipment. It is engaged in the trading of textbooks and other books. It provides teaching aids and stationery. In addition, it publishes print newspapers, magazines, pictures, maps, and CDs.