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DIC (TSE:4631) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : 円0 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. DIC's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was 円0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was 円0 Mil.


DIC Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

DIC Annual Data
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DIC Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of DIC's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, DIC'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.


DIC's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

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

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



DIC 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 円0 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.


DIC  (TSE:4631) 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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DIC (TSE:4631) Business Description

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DIC Building, 7-20, Nihonbashi 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JPN, 103-8233
DIC Corp manufactures and sells a variety of chemicals and chemical-based products. The company organizes itself into four segments based on product type. The printing inks segment, which generates the most revenue of any segment, sells inks used for publishing as well as inks and adhesives used for packaging. The polymers segment sells synthetic resins used in electronics and automobiles. The fine chemicals segment sells liquid crystals used for televisions and monitors as well as pigments for color filters. The application materials segment sells industrial adhesive tape as well as materials used for coating, printing, and molding.

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