SofTech (SofTech) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $2.46 Mil (TTM As of Nov. 2016)

SofTech Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

SofTech Annual Data
	Trend	May06	May07	May08	May09	May11	May12	May13	May14	May15	May16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					2.98	3.19	3.47	2.48	2.56

SofTech Quarterly Data
	Feb12	May12	Aug12	Nov12	Feb13	May13	Aug13	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16	May16	Aug16	Nov16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.63	0.67	0.66	0.60	0.54

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, SofTech'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.

SofTech's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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

SofTech 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 Nov. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2.46 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.

SofTech  (OTCPK:SOFT) 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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