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Contango Holdings (LSE:CGO) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £1.33 Mil (TTM As of Nov. 2024)


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What is Contango Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Contango Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Nov. 2024 was £0.33 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2024 was £1.33 Mil.


Contango Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Contango Holdings'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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Contango Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Contango Holdings Annual Data
Trend May17 May18 May19 May20 May21 May22 May23 May24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.26 3.31 2.79 2.49 1.52

Contango Holdings Semi-Annual Data
May17 Nov17 May18 May19 May20 Nov20 May21 Nov21 May22 Nov22 May23 Nov23 May24 Nov24
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 1.27 1.22 0.52 1.00 0.33

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

For the Thermal Coal subindustry, Contango Holdings'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.


Contango Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Other Energy Sources Industry

For the Other Energy Sources industry and Energy sector, Contango Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Contango Holdings 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 Nov. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £1.33 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.


Contango Holdings  (LSE:CGO) 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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Contango Holdings Business Description

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1 Charterhouse Mews, London, GBR, EC1M 6BB
Contango Holdings PLC is a natural resource development company. It is engaged in the mining business. Its two projects are the Muchesu Project in Zimbabwe and the development of the Garalo-Ntiela Gold Project in Mali.