PVNNF (PV Nano Cell) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $1.81 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)

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What is PV Nano Cell Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

PV Nano Cell PVNNF Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.81 Mil as of Dec. 2023.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. PV Nano Cell's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.81 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.81 Mil.


PV Nano Cell  (OTCPK:PVNNF) 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.


PV Nano Cell Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms


PV Nano Cell Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for PV Nano Cell'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.

PV Nano Cell Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

PV Nano Cell Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.99 2.09 1.97 2.46 1.81

PV Nano Cell Semi-Annual Data
Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.99 2.09 1.97 2.46 1.81

PVNNF vs LIN, SHW, ECL: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, PV Nano Cell'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.


PV Nano Cell Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, PV Nano Cell's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



PV Nano Cell 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.

For stock reported annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data. Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.81 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.81 Mil mean?
PV Nano Cell (PVNNF) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.81 Mil as of Dec. 2023. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on PV Nano Cell and its competitors.
Is PV Nano Cell's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
PV Nano Cell's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.81 Mil.
How does PV Nano Cell's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to LIN and SHW?
PV Nano Cell's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.81 Mil can be compared against companies in the Chemicals industry. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for a Chemicals company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Chemicals industry context. However, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense mean?
A high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on PV Nano Cell and its competitors. PV Nano Cell's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.81 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is PV Nano Cell stock overvalued right now?
PV Nano Cell (PVNNF) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.81 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.81 Mil. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Selling, General, & Admin. Expense calculated?
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is calculated from a company's financial statements. For PV Nano Cell (PVNNF), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.81 Mil as of Dec. 2023. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.

PV Nano Cell Business Description

Address 8 Hamasger Street, P.O. Box 236, Migdal HaEmek, ISR, 2310102
PV Nano Cell Ltd is a conductive ink manufacturing company. It is engaged in developing, manufacturing, marketing & commercializing conductive inks for digital inkjet conductive printing applications. It develops the Sicrys family of single crystal nano-metric conductive inks for photovoltaic and printed electronics applications, as well as silver-based Sicrys inks for use in a range of inkjet printing electronics applications, including printing of circuit boards, mobile phone antennas, 3D printed electronic devices, radio-frequency identification chips, sensors, touchscreens, and other digitally printed electronics. Geographically, it generates revenue from Spain, Israel, United states, Japan, Germany, Other.