Metro Pacific Tollways (PHS:TOL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ₱848.65 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2012)

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What is Metro Pacific Tollways Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Metro Pacific Tollways's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2012 was ₱171.59 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2012 was ₱848.65 Mil.

Metro Pacific Tollways Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Metro Pacific Tollways's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Metro Pacific Tollways Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Metro Pacific Tollways Annual Data

Trend

Dec10

Dec11

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

990.60

811.86

Metro Pacific Tollways Quarterly Data
	Dec10	Mar11	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial			190.01	317.82	65.92	293.32	171.59

Competitive Comparison of Metro Pacific Tollways's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Metro Pacific Tollways'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.

Metro Pacific Tollways's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Metro Pacific Tollways's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

Metro Pacific Tollways 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. 2012 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was ₱848.65 Mil.

Metro Pacific Tollways (PHS:TOL) 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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