Alpha Strategic (LSE:APS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £1.38 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2013)

Alpha Strategic Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Alpha Strategic Semi-Annual Data
	Sep06	Mar07	Sep07	Mar08	Sep08	Mar09	Sep09	Mar10	Sep10	Mar11	Sep11	Mar12	Sep12	Mar13	Sep13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial										0.36	-0.36	0.42	0.55	0.83

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

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Alpha Strategic's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industry

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Alpha Strategic 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 Sep. 2013 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £1.38 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.

Alpha Strategic  (LSE:APS) 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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