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Pak Datacom (KAR:PAKD) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ₨ Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Pak Datacom Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

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


Pak Datacom Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pak Datacom's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Pak Datacom's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Pak Datacom'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.


Pak Datacom's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Pak Datacom's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Pak Datacom 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.


Pak Datacom  (KAR:PAKD) 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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Pak Datacom (KAR:PAKD) Business Description

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Blue Area, Jinnah Avenue, 3rd Floor, Umar Plaza, Islamabad, PAK
Pak Datacom Ltd is a data network operator based in Pakistan. It specializes in providing end-to-end data communication solutions through Satellite based SCPC VSAT, DAMA, iDirect, Terrestrial Networks and Radio.

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