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VPER (Viper Networks) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $4.13 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2006)


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What is Viper Networks Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Viper Networks's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2006 was $0.66 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2006 was $4.13 Mil.


Viper Networks Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Viper Networks Annual Data
Trend Dec01 Dec03 Dec04 Dec05
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.36 1.46 3.66 2.81

Viper Networks Quarterly Data
Dec01 Mar03 Jun03 Sep03 Dec03 Mar04 Jun04 Sep04 Dec04 Mar05 Jun05 Sep05 Dec05 Mar06 Jun06 Sep06
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 0.25 0.84 1.75 0.87 0.66

Competitive Comparison of Viper Networks's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Electronic Components subindustry, Viper Networks'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.


Viper Networks's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Viper Networks's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Viper Networks 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. 2006 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4.13 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.


Viper Networks  (OTCPK:VPER) 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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Viper Networks Business Description

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200 East Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI, USA, 48083
Viper Networks Inc is an Indian-based company that operates in LED lighting products. It is involved in the manufacturing and distribution of LED lighting to provide superior turnkey LED lighting solutions for metropolitan areas (streets and highways), parking lots, and warehousing facilities anywhere. Further, it also offers intelligent lighting solutions with cameras, sensors, and wireless technologies. The company is also into providing telecom engineering services in the U.S., Middle East, and Northern Africa.
Executives
Jason Sunstein director, officer: Vice President - Finance 350 10TH AVE., SUITE 1000, SAN DIEGO CA 92101