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Korver (Korver) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $ Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Korver Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

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


Korver Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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

For the Solar subindustry, Korver'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.


Korver's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Korver's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Korver 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.


Korver  (OTCPK:KOVR) 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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Korver (Korver) Business Description

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1968 South Coast Highway, Suite 458, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, 92651
Korver Corp is engaged in developing high-efficiency perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. The solar cells offer a path toward low-cost photovoltaic electricity, by boosting the performance of established crystalline silicon cells. It results in efficient light coupling, reduced reflections, minimized reaction losses, and others.