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MWB Business Exchange (LSE:MBE) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £3.90 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2012)


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What is MWB Business Exchange Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. MWB Business Exchange's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2012 was £3.90 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2012 was £3.90 Mil.


MWB Business Exchange Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for MWB Business Exchange'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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MWB Business Exchange Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

MWB Business Exchange Annual Data
Trend Jun05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Jun11 Jun12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 2.44 1.08 1.97 - 2.83

MWB Business Exchange Semi-Annual Data
Jun06 Dec06 Jun07 Dec07 Jun08 Dec08 Jun09 Dec09 Jun10 Dec12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 0.81 - 0.92 3.90

Competitive Comparison of MWB Business Exchange's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, MWB Business Exchange'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.


MWB Business Exchange's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, MWB Business Exchange's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



MWB Business Exchange 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 Dec. 2012 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £3.90 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.


MWB Business Exchange  (LSE:MBE) 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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