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MLLUY (Metallurgical of China) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $595 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Metallurgical of China Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Metallurgical of China's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $509 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $595 Mil.


Metallurgical of China Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Metallurgical of China'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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Metallurgical of China Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Metallurgical of China Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
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Metallurgical of China Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Metallurgical of China's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Metallurgical of China'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.


Metallurgical of China's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Metallurgical of China's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Metallurgical of China 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 Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $595 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.


Metallurgical of China  (OTCPK:MLLUY) 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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Metallurgical of China Business Description

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No. 28, Shuguang Xili, MCC Tower, Chaoyang DIstrict, Beijing, CHN, 100028
Metallurgical Corp of China Ltd is a metallurgical engineering and construction group operating predominantly in China. The segments through which business is conducted are; Engineering contracting business, Resources development business, Featured business, Comprehensive real estate business, and other businesses. The majority of the revenue for the company is generated from the Engineering contracting business segment which includes its core business carried out by way of EPC contracts and general financing and construction contracting contracts.

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