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Ventana Biotech (Ventana Biotech) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $ Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is Ventana Biotech Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Ventana Biotech's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in . 20 was $0.00 Mil. Ventana Biotech does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


Ventana Biotech Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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Competitive Comparison of Ventana Biotech's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Ventana Biotech'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.


Ventana Biotech's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, Ventana Biotech's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Ventana Biotech 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.


Ventana Biotech  (OTCPK:VNTA) 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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Ventana Biotech (Ventana Biotech) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1660 South Albion Street, Suite 1007, Denver, CO, USA, 80222
Ventana Biotech Inc is a development stage company providing alternative financing in the capacity of a broker for those commercial borrowers in need of non-bank financing.