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Photoelectron (Photoelectron) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $3.27 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2002)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Photoelectron's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2002 was $0.71 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2002 was $3.27 Mil.


Photoelectron Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Photoelectron Annual Data
Trend Dec94 Dec95 Dec96 Dec97 Dec98 Dec99 Dec00 Dec01
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 2.30 3.10 3.40 3.82 4.49

Photoelectron Quarterly Data
Dec97 Mar98 Jun98 Sep98 Dec98 Mar99 Jun99 Sep99 Dec99 Mar00 Jun00 Sep00 Dec00 Mar01 Jun01 Sep01 Dec01 Mar02 Jun02 Sep02
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Competitive Comparison of Photoelectron's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Photoelectron'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.


Photoelectron's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Photoelectron's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Photoelectron 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. 2002 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.27 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.


Photoelectron  (OTCPK:PECN) 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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Photoelectron (Photoelectron) Business Description

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9 Executive Park Drive, North Billerica, Billerica, MA, USA, 01862
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Photoelectron Corp is engaged in the design, development & commercialization of the Photon Radiosurgery System, a proprietary, therapeutic device for the treatment of cancerous tumors through the application of x-ray radiation directly to the tumor site. It is manufacturing miniature x-ray systems for a variety of applications in healthcare and non-healthcare related markets.

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