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Changchai Co (SZSE:200570) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : HK$58 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Changchai 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. Changchai Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was HK$46 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was HK$58 Mil.


Changchai Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Changchai 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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Changchai Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Changchai Co Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Changchai Co Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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Competitive Comparison of Changchai Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Changchai 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.


Changchai Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

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

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Changchai 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was HK$58 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.


Changchai Co  (SZSE:200570) 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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Changchai Co Business Description

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123 Huaide Middle Road, Jiangsu Province, Changzhou, CHN, 213002
Changchai Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the manufacture and distribution of diesel engines and related spare parts. The company specializes in the manufacture and sale of diesel engines, diesel engine fittings, and castings, gasoline engines, gasoline engine fittings, cereal harvesting machinery, rotovators, walking tractors, molds, and jigs as well as the assembly and sale of diesel engine and gasoline engine supporting sets. It mainly manufactures and sells small and medium-sized single-cylinder and multi-cylinder diesel engines under the brand of Changchai, which are often used in tractors, combine harvesters, light commercial vehicles, agriculture equipment, small-sized engineering machinery, generator sets, and ship machines.

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