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Pakistan Telecommunication Co (KAR:PTC) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ₨20,360 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2024)


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What is Pakistan Telecommunication Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Pakistan Telecommunication Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was ₨-11,670 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2024 was ₨20,360 Mil.


Pakistan Telecommunication Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pakistan Telecommunication Co'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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Pakistan Telecommunication Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Pakistan Telecommunication Co Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10,344.79 11,733.18 13,153.00 18,490.46 21,317.15

Pakistan Telecommunication Co Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
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 -9,180.46 9,402.16 11,289.96 11,338.80 -11,670.44

Competitive Comparison of Pakistan Telecommunication Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Pakistan Telecommunication Co'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.


Pakistan Telecommunication Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

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

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Pakistan Telecommunication Co 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 Dec. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was ₨20,360 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.


Pakistan Telecommunication Co  (KAR:PTC) 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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Pakistan Telecommunication Co Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Room No. 17, Plot No 55-C, Ground Floor (Margalla Side), Ufone Tower, Main Jinnah Avenue, Blue Area, Sector F-7/1, Islamabad, PAK
Pakistan Telecommunication Co Ltd is a telecom company. It is mainly engaged in providing telecommunication services such as wireline and wireless services, interconnects, data services, and equipment sales. The services provided by the company include high-speed internet, smart tv, mobile services, landline services, digital services such as managed Wi-Fi, smart radios, point-to-multipoint and cloud services in the realm of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and hosting services. The company operates in three operating segments i.e. fixed-line communications (Wireline) which generates key revenue, wireless communications (Wireless), and banking.