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Newalta (Newalta) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $20.8 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2018)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Newalta's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2018 was $5.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2018 was $20.8 Mil.


Newalta Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Newalta Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Newalta Quarterly Data
Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18
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 7.07 3.93 4.24 6.77 5.84

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

For the Waste Management subindustry, Newalta'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.


Newalta's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Newalta's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Newalta 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. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $20.8 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.


Newalta  (OTCPK:NWLTF) 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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Newalta (Newalta) Business Description

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Newalta Corp is engaged in providing engineered environmental solutions, which enable customers to reduce disposal, enhance recycling and recover valuable resources from oil and gas exploration and production waste streams. The operating segments of the group are Heavy oil and Oilfield. It generates maximum revenue from the Oilfield segment which includes the processing of oilfield-generated wastes, including treatment, water disposal, clean oil terminalling, landfilling, the sale of recovered crude oil and the supply and operation of drill site processing equipment, including solids control and drill cuttings management; as well as environmental services like environmental projects, drilling waste management services and site remediation. The group operates in Canada and the US.

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