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Northern Graphite (TSXV:NGC) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$9.29 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Northern Graphite Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Northern Graphite's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was C$2.33 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was C$9.29 Mil.


Northern Graphite Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Northern Graphite Annual Data
Trend Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.06 0.62 0.76 2.13 6.31

Northern Graphite Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.85 1.60 3.02 2.34 2.33

Competitive Comparison of Northern Graphite's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Northern Graphite'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.


Northern Graphite's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Northern Graphite's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Northern Graphite 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 Sep. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$9.29 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.


Northern Graphite  (TSXV:NGC) 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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Northern Graphite (TSXV:NGC) Business Description

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1000 Innovation Drive, Suite 500, Ottawa, ON, CAN, K2K 3E7
Northern Graphite Corp is a Canada-based exploration stage company engaged in the exploration and development of mineral resource properties. The company is focused on producing natural graphite and upgrading it into high-value products critical to the green economy including anode material for lithium-ion batteries/EVs, fuel cells, and graphene, as well as advanced industrial technologies. Its exploration and development activities are focused on the Bissett Creek Property in Ontario, Canada, and Okanjande in Namibia.