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Car & General (K) (NAI:CGEN) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : KES1,956 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2022)


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What is Car & General (K) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Car & General (K)'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2022 was KES0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2022 was KES1,956 Mil.


Car & General (K) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Car & General (K)'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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Car & General (K) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Car & General (K) Annual Data
Trend Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,323.88 1,373.45 1,495.28 1,955.63 2,226.13

Car & General (K) Semi-Annual Data
Sep08 Sep09 Sep10 Mar11 Sep11 Mar12 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Sep22
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 644.75 850.54 744.04 1,211.60 -

Competitive Comparison of Car & General (K)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Car & General (K)'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.


Car & General (K)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Car & General (K)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Car & General (K)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Car & General (K) 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. 2022 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was KES1,956 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.


Car & General (K)  (NAI:CGEN) 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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Car & General (K) (NAI:CGEN) Business Description

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Address
New Cargen House, Lusaka Road, P.O. Box 20001, Nairobi, KEN, 00200
Car & General (K) Ltd is a supplier of generators, motorbikes, tuk-tuks, laundry equipment, lawnmowers, scooters, marine engines, construction equipment and power generation, automotive and engineering products. The company's reportable segment includes Trade and workshop, Investment properties, Poultry and ICT Training, and Manufacturing. It generates a variety of its revenue from Trade and workshop Segments. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from Kenya.