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Powersafe Technology (Powersafe Technology) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.23 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2008)


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What is Powersafe Technology Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Powersafe Technology's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2008 was $0.11 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2008 was $0.23 Mil.


Powersafe Technology Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Powersafe Technology Annual Data
Trend Dec07 Dec08
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.05 0.23

Powersafe Technology Quarterly Data
Mar07 Jun07 Sep07 Dec07 Mar08 Jun08 Sep08 Dec08
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.01 0.01 0.07 0.04 0.11

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

For the Semiconductors subindustry, Powersafe Technology'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.


Powersafe Technology's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Powersafe Technology's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Powersafe Technology 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 Dec. 2008 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.23 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.


Powersafe Technology  (OTCPK:PSFT) 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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Powersafe Technology (Powersafe Technology) Business Description

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3412 Progress Drive, Bensalem, PA, USA, 19020
Powersafe Technology Corp develops a new semiconductor detection technology for extremely high sensitivity electronic and photonic detection. The company uses an application such as Laser Range Finding (LRF), Night vision, Imaging systems and NIR cameras, Security systems, PET Scanners, Medical imaging, Fluorescence Detection, High energy physics, Hyper-spectral spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, and Biological Sensors. It offers services to industries such as medical diagnostics, drug development, scientific instrumentation, and homeland security.

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