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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Luna Innovations's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2023 was $12.8 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $57.4 Mil.
Luna Innovations (OTCPK:LUNA) 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.
Luna Innovations Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms
Luna Innovations Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
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The historical data trend for Luna Innovations'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.
Luna Innovations Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
LUNA vs ODYS, WRAP, SOTK: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison
For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Luna Innovations'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.
Luna Innovations Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Luna Innovations's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Luna Innovations's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Luna Innovations 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $57.4 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 $57.4 Mil mean?
Luna Innovations (LUNA) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $57.4 Mil as of Sep. 2023. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Luna Innovations and its competitors.
Is Luna Innovations' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Luna Innovations' current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $57.4 Mil. Overall, Luna Innovations has a GF Score™ of 16/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Luna Innovations' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to ODYS and WRAP?
Luna Innovations' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $57.4 Mil can be compared against companies in the Hardware 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 a Hardware company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Hardware 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 Luna Innovations and its competitors. Luna Innovations's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $57.4 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Luna Innovations stock overvalued right now?
Luna Innovations (LUNA) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $57.4 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $57.4 Mil. Luna Innovations' overall GF Score™ is 16/100. 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 Luna Innovations (LUNA), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $57.4 Mil as of Sep. 2023. 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.
Luna Innovations Inc is engaged in optical technology, providing high-performance fiber optic test, measurement, and control products for the telecommunications, and photonics industries, and distributed fiber optic sensing solutions that measure and monitor materials and structures for applications in aerospace, automotive, oil, and gas, security, and infrastructure. Its Lightwave segment develops, manufactures, and markets optical measurements technologies like Sensing including short, medium, and long-range distributed fiber optic sensing solutions and Terahertz measurement products, and Communications test and photonic control including test equipment for communications devices and networks and specialty laser and photonic components. It derives a majority of its revenue from the U.S.
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