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Quintis (Quintis) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $79.23 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2017)


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What is Quintis Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Quintis's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2017 was $56.83 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2017 was $79.23 Mil.


Quintis Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Quintis'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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Quintis Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Quintis Annual Data
Trend Jun08 Jun09 Jun10 Jun11 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 22.21 37.26 37.10 44.08 79.89

Quintis Semi-Annual Data
Dec07 Jun08 Dec08 Jun09 Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 21.51 19.88 23.77 22.40 56.83

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

For the Lumber & Wood Production subindustry, Quintis'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.


Quintis's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Quintis's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Quintis 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 Jun. 2017 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $79.23 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.


Quintis  (GREY:TFSCY) 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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Quintis (Quintis) Business Description

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171-173 Mounts Bay Road, Level 2, Perth, WA, AUS, 6000
Quintis Ltd engages in the cultivation of Indian sandalwood and production of sandalwood oil. It operates in four segments. The Plantation Management segment which dominates firm's revenue is responsible for the promotion and sales of Indian sandalwood lots; establishment, maintenance, and harvesting of Indian Sandalwood plantations on behalf of the growers and group owned plantations; and end-market research and establishment of end-market agreements. The Finance segment provides financial assistance to growers to purchase sandalwood lots. The Sandalwood Products segment manufactures sandalwood oil and products for resale. The Pharmaceutical segment focuses in the research and development of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products for commercializing.

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