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Knowledge Tower Trading Co (SAU:9551) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ﷼7.10 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Knowledge Tower Trading 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. Knowledge Tower Trading Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Mar. 2024 was ﷼3.19 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was ﷼7.10 Mil.


Knowledge Tower Trading Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Knowledge Tower Trading 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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Knowledge Tower Trading Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Knowledge Tower Trading Co Annual Data
Trend Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
1.76 3.47 5.35 7.10

Knowledge Tower Trading Co Semi-Annual Data
Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 1.33 2.85 2.50 3.91 3.19

Competitive Comparison of Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Knowledge Tower Trading 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.


Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Knowledge Tower Trading 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 semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was ﷼7.10 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.


Knowledge Tower Trading Co  (SAU:9551) 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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Knowledge Tower Trading Co Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Ibn Yaqout Al-Hamawi Road, Al-Muraikbat District, Dammam, SAU, 7222 -32253
Knowledge Tower Trading Co is engaged in marketing and selling educational books for schools, universities, training institutes, and government educational institutions, developing educational programs for schools, providing electronic educational platforms, providing modern educational resources for training, and designing educational models.

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