Satellos Bioscience (TSX:MSCL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: C$10.99 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2026)

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TSX:MSCL Satellos Bioscience Inc TSX:MSCL
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What is Satellos Bioscience Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Satellos Bioscience TSX:MSCL -4.48% 35 Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is C$10.99 Mil as of Mar. 2026. GuruFocus rates TSX:MSCL with a GF Score™ of 35/100. The stock has 1 warning sign investors should review.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Satellos Bioscience's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2026 was C$3.22 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2026 was C$10.99 Mil.


Satellos Bioscience  (TSX:MSCL) 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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Satellos Bioscience Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Satellos Bioscience's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Satellos Bioscience Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Satellos Bioscience Annual Data
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Satellos Bioscience Quarterly Data
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TSX:MSCL vs VRTX, REGN, ALNY: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Satellos Bioscience'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.


Satellos Bioscience Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Satellos Bioscience's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Satellos Bioscience 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. 2026 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$10.99 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 C$10.99 Mil mean?
Satellos Bioscience (TSX:MSCL) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of C$10.99 Mil as of Mar. 2026. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Satellos Bioscience and its competitors.
Is Satellos Bioscience's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Satellos Bioscience's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is C$10.99 Mil. Overall, Satellos Bioscience has a GF Score™ of 35/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Satellos Bioscience's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to VRTX and REGN?
Satellos Bioscience's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of C$10.99 Mil can be compared against companies in the Biotechnology 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 Biotechnology company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Biotechnology 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 Satellos Bioscience and its competitors. Satellos Bioscience's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is C$10.99 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Satellos Bioscience stock overvalued right now?
Satellos Bioscience (TSX:MSCL) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of C$10.99 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is C$10.99 Mil. Satellos Bioscience's overall GF Score™ is 35/100 with 1 warning sign to review. 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 Satellos Bioscience (TSX:MSCL), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is C$10.99 Mil as of Mar. 2026. 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.

Satellos Bioscience Business Description

Other Exchanges MSLE:USA0IT:Germany
Address 200 Bay Street, Suite 2800, Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5J 2J1
Satellos Bioscience Inc is a Canadian biotechnology and drug development company. The company is developing novel therapeutics that stimulate or restore muscle regeneration in severe disorders. The company's program is focused on developing an oral therapeutic drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that serves to correct this dysregulation, which Satellos has identified as a root cause of the progressive nature of this disease.
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