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Eastern Platinum (JSE:EPS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : R59 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Eastern Platinum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Eastern Platinum's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was R13 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was R59 Mil.


Eastern Platinum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Eastern Platinum'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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Eastern Platinum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Eastern Platinum 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 38.05 42.62 46.93 49.33 54.24

Eastern Platinum Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 8.66 13.03 17.70 15.07 12.74

Competitive Comparison of Eastern Platinum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Precious Metals & Mining subindustry, Eastern Platinum'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.


Eastern Platinum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Eastern Platinum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Eastern Platinum 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 Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was R59 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.


Eastern Platinum  (JSE:EPS) 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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Eastern Platinum (JSE:EPS) Business Description

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1188 West Georgia Street, Suite 1080, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6E 4A2
Eastern Platinum Ltd owns, directly and indirectly, a number of PGM and chrome assets in the Republic of South Africa. All of the company's properties are situated on the western and eastern limbs of the Bushveld Complex, the geological environment that hosts approximately 80% of the world's PGM-bearing ore. It has three segments CRM, Eastern Limb and Corporate. Operations at the Crocodile River Mine include re-mining and processing its tailings resource, with an offtake of the chrome concentrate to Union Goal from the Zandfontein UG2 tailings facility and the processing and extraction of platinum group metals.

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