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TOM Group (TOM Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $24.5 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is TOM Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. TOM Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $12.6 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $24.5 Mil.


TOM Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

TOM Group Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 27.56 27.12 27.33 25.95 24.50

TOM Group Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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 14.55 12.07 13.78 11.91 12.56

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

For the Publishing subindustry, TOM Group'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.


TOM Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, TOM Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



TOM Group 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $24.5 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.


TOM Group  (OTCPK:TOCOF) 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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TOM Group (TOM Group) Business Description

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26 Harbour Road, Rooms 1601-05, 16th Floor, China Resources Building, Wanchai, Hong Kong, HKG
TOM Group Ltd is a Chinese media conglomerate with the following operating segments. E-Commerce Group, Mobile Internet Group, Social Network Group, Publishing Group, and Advertising group. The majority is from the Publishing segment which includes magazine and book publishing and circulation, sales of advertising and other related product, and produces books and magazines around Taiwan and China. The Group has two divisions, Technology platform & investments, which include E-commerce, Mobile Internet, and Social network; Media Business, which includes Advertising and Publishing, out of which the majority is from the Media business. Geographically Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan & other Asian country, the majority is from Taiwan & another Asian country.

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