Magnolia Petroleum (LSE:MAGP) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: £0.14 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2017)

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What is Magnolia Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Magnolia Petroleum LSE:MAGP +50.00% Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £0.14 Mil as of Jun. 2017. The stock has 6 warning signs investors should review.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Magnolia Petroleum's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2017 was £0.32 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2017 was £0.14 Mil.


Magnolia Petroleum  (LSE:MAGP) 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.


Magnolia Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms


Magnolia Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Magnolia Petroleum'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.

Magnolia Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Magnolia Petroleum Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 0.26 0.25 0.24 0.18 0.12

Magnolia Petroleum Semi-Annual Data
Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.33 -0.17 0.26 -0.18 0.32

LSE:MAGP vs VNRRQ, GBEYF, STSC: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, Magnolia Petroleum'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.


Magnolia Petroleum Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Magnolia Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Magnolia Petroleum 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 semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.14 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £0.14 Mil mean?
Magnolia Petroleum (LSE:MAGP) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £0.14 Mil as of Jun. 2017. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Magnolia Petroleum and its competitors.
Is Magnolia Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Magnolia Petroleum's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £0.14 Mil.
How does Magnolia Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to VNRRQ and GBEYF?
Magnolia Petroleum's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £0.14 Mil can be compared against companies in the Oil & Gas 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 an Oil & Gas company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Oil & Gas 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 Magnolia Petroleum and its competitors. Magnolia Petroleum's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £0.14 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Magnolia Petroleum stock overvalued right now?
Magnolia Petroleum (LSE:MAGP) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £0.14 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £0.14 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 Magnolia Petroleum (LSE:MAGP), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £0.14 Mil as of Jun. 2017. 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.

Magnolia Petroleum Business Description

Industry EnergyOil & Gas
Address 19-21 Crawford Street, Suite 321, London, GBR, W1H 1PJ
Magnolia Petroleum PLC is an oil and gas production company. The company focuses on the acquisition, exploitation, and development of oil and gas properties located onshore in the United States. It has a diverse portfolio of revenue-generating assets including leases on the highly productive Bakken/Three Forks Sanish Formation in North Dakota and the proven Mississippi Lime and Woodford/Hunton oil formations in Oklahoma. It operates in two geographical areas, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.