TRTI (Transtech Industries) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $2.00 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2009)

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What is Transtech Industries Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Transtech Industries TRTI Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $2.00 Mil as of Dec. 2009.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Transtech Industries's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2009 was $0.51 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2009 was $2.00 Mil.


Transtech Industries  (OTCPK:TRTI) 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.


Transtech Industries Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms


Transtech Industries Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Transtech Industries'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.

Transtech Industries Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Transtech Industries Annual Data
Trend Dec00 Dec01 Dec02 Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Transtech Industries Quarterly Data
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TRTI vs CREG, SENR, NESCQ: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Waste Management subindustry, Transtech Industries'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.


Transtech Industries Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Transtech Industries's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Transtech Industries 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. 2009 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2.00 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $2.00 Mil mean?
Transtech Industries (TRTI) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $2.00 Mil as of Dec. 2009. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Transtech Industries and its competitors.
Is Transtech Industries' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Transtech Industries' current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $2.00 Mil.
How does Transtech Industries' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to CREG and SENR?
Transtech Industries' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $2.00 Mil can be compared against companies in the Waste Management industry. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for a Waste Management company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Waste Management industry context. However, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense mean?
A high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Transtech Industries and its competitors. Transtech Industries's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $2.00 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Transtech Industries stock overvalued right now?
Transtech Industries (TRTI) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $2.00 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $2.00 Mil. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Selling, General, & Admin. Expense calculated?
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is calculated from a company's financial statements. For Transtech Industries (TRTI), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $2.00 Mil as of Dec. 2009. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.

Transtech Industries Business Description

Address 2025 Delsea Drive, Sewell, NJ, USA, 08080
Transtech Industries Inc, through its subsidiaries, supervises and performs landfill monitoring, closure and post-closure procedures, manages methane gas recovery operations and generates electric power utilizing methane gas.