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MoneySwap (LSE:SWAP) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £1.38 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2016)


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What is MoneySwap Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. MoneySwap's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2016 was £0.83 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 was £1.38 Mil.


MoneySwap Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

MoneySwap Annual Data
Trend Mar08 Mar09 Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15 Mar16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 4.18 2.92 2.89 2.13 2.03

MoneySwap Semi-Annual Data
Mar08 Mar09 Mar10 Mar11 Sep11 Mar12 Sep12 Mar13 Sep13 Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16
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 Premium Member Only 1.13 0.90 1.37 0.55 0.83

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

For the Capital Markets subindustry, MoneySwap'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.


MoneySwap's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, MoneySwap's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



MoneySwap 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. 2016 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.


MoneySwap  (LSE:SWAP) 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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MoneySwap (LSE:SWAP) Business Description

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MoneySwap PLC was incorporated on April 12, 2006. The Company and its subsidiaries are engaged in providing prepaid card services and merchant acquisition services to China UnionPay, and operating an online peer to peer foreign exchange and payment platform. Its business lines include Prepaid cards, Merchant acquisition for CUP, and Small and medium-sized entities and International remittance. Its geographical segments include Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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