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China Container Terminal (TPE:2613) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : NT$199 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is China Container Terminal Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. China Container Terminal's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$49 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$199 Mil.


China Container Terminal Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for China Container Terminal'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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China Container Terminal Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

China Container Terminal Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
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China Container Terminal Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of China Container Terminal's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Marine Shipping subindustry, China Container Terminal'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.


China Container Terminal's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, China Container Terminal's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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China Container Terminal 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was NT$199 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.


China Container Terminal  (TPE:2613) 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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China Container Terminal (TPE:2613) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
275, Datong Road, Section 3, Xizhi District, Taipei, TWN
China Container Terminal Corp is engaged in contracted operations of container freight stations at the port and on land as well as ship stevedore operations in commercial port areas.

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