Roshan Packages (KAR:RPL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: ₨ Mil (TTM As of . 20)

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What is Roshan Packages Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Roshan Packages KAR:RPL -0.30% Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ₨ Mil as of . 20. 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. Roshan Packages's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in . 20 was ₨0.00 Mil. Roshan Packages does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.

Roshan Packages  (KAR:RPL) 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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Roshan Packages Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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KAR:RPL vs SW, PKG, IP: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Packaging & Containers subindustry, Roshan Packages'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.

Roshan Packages Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Packaging & Containers Industry

For the Packaging & Containers industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Roshan Packages's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


Roshan Packages 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ₨ Mil mean?
Roshan Packages (KAR:RPL) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ₨ Mil as of . 20. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Roshan Packages and its competitors.
Is Roshan Packages' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Roshan Packages' current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ₨ Mil.
How does Roshan Packages' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to SW and PKG?
Roshan Packages' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ₨ Mil can be compared against companies in the Packaging & Containers 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 Packaging & Containers company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Packaging & Containers 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 Roshan Packages and its competitors. Roshan Packages's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ₨ Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Roshan Packages stock overvalued right now?
Roshan Packages (KAR:RPL) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ₨ Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ₨ 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 Roshan Packages (KAR:RPL), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ₨ Mil as of . 20. 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.

Roshan Packages Business Description

Address 325 G-III, M.A Johar Town, Lahore, PB, PAK, 54782
Roshan Packages Ltd is a manufacturer and supplier of corrugated paper and flexible packaging materials. Its flexible packaging product range includes pharmaceutical and herbal product laminates, snacks, biscuits, and confectionery laminates, and others. The company also operates the RoshPack packaging e-commerce platform, providing ready-to-pick packaging such as mailer boxes, pizza boxes, and cargo boxes in various sizes. The platform offers generic products with no minimum order quantities, semi-customized options with logo printing, and fully customized packaging tailored to customer needs, delivering convenient, high-quality, and reliable solutions. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Pakistan, followed by Australia.