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Middle East Specialized Cables Co (SAU:2370) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ﷼29.7 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Middle East Specialized Cables Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Middle East Specialized Cables Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was ﷼21.0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was ﷼29.7 Mil.


Middle East Specialized Cables Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Middle East Specialized Cables Co'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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Middle East Specialized Cables Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Middle East Specialized Cables Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Middle East Specialized Cables Co Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Middle East Specialized Cables Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, Middle East Specialized Cables Co'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.


Middle East Specialized Cables Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Middle East Specialized Cables Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Middle East Specialized Cables Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Middle East Specialized Cables Co 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was ﷼29.7 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.


Middle East Specialized Cables Co  (SAU:2370) 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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Middle East Specialized Cables Co (SAU:2370) Business Description

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Address
Salahuddin Street, King Abdulaziz Sector, PO Box 60536, Riyadh, SAU, 11555
Middle East Specialized Cables Co is a company which is engaged in the production and sale of flexible electric, coaxial, rubber and nylon coated wires and cables, telephone cables for internal extensions, computer cables, safety and anti-fire wires and cables, and control and transmission of information cables. The company's products include instrumentation and process control cables, Building wire, power, and control cables (PVC), data and communication cable, Flexible cables, fire cables, irrigation cables, bare copper and PVCs. It operates its business in two geographic segments namely Saudi Arabia and Unites Arab Emirates (UAE). The majority of the company's revenue comes from Saudi Arabia.

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