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LookSmart Group (LookSmart Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.82 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2017)


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What is LookSmart Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. LookSmart Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2017 was $0.28 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2017 was $0.82 Mil.


LookSmart Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for LookSmart Group'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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LookSmart Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

LookSmart Group Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
4.25 2.68 1.25

LookSmart Group Quarterly Data
Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Jun17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.40 0.31 0.30 0.24 0.28

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

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, LookSmart Group'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.


LookSmart Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, LookSmart Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



LookSmart Group 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 Jun. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.82 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.


LookSmart Group  (OTCPK:LKST) 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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LookSmart Group (LookSmart Group) Business Description

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2850 West Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 200, Henderson, NV, USA, 89052
LookSmart Group Inc engages in providing digital advertising solutions. The company provides solutions for search and display advertising customers in a large online advertising ecosystem serving ads that target user queries on partner sites. It offers search advertising customers, and targeted search through a search advertising distribution network that uses the company's AdCenter platform technology. It offers advertisers the ability to buy graphical display advertising. The company derives its revenues from LookSmart AdCenter, Novatech.io, ShopWiki, and web searches.

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