TOOD (Thermwood) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $7.70 Mil (TTM As of Jul. 2001)

Thermwood  (OTCPK:TOOD) 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.

Thermwood Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

The historical data trend for Thermwood'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.

Thermwood Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Thermwood Annual Data
	Trend	Jul92	Jul93	Jul94	Jul95	Jul96	Jul97	Jul98	Jul99	Jul00	Jul01
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					4.80	6.40	7.31	8.14	7.70

Thermwood Quarterly Data
	Oct96	Jan97	Apr97	Jul97	Oct97	Jan98	Apr98	Jul98	Oct98	Jan99	Apr99	Jul99	Oct99	Jan00	Apr00	Jul00	Oct00	Jan01	Apr01	Jul01
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2.43	1.67	1.95	2.01	2.07

TOOD vs EVTN, NRBT: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Thermwood'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.

Thermwood Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Industrial Products Industry

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

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

Thermwood 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 Jul. 2001 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $7.70 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.

Thermwood Business Description