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VectoIQ Acquisition (VectoIQ Acquisition) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1.36 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2020)


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What is VectoIQ Acquisition Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. VectoIQ Acquisition's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2020 was $0.70 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2020 was $1.36 Mil.


VectoIQ Acquisition Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

VectoIQ Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.40 0.91

VectoIQ Acquisition Quarterly Data
Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 0.25 0.20 0.24 0.22 0.70

Competitive Comparison of VectoIQ Acquisition's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Shell Companies subindustry, VectoIQ Acquisition'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.


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

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

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



VectoIQ Acquisition 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. 2020 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.36 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.


VectoIQ Acquisition  (NAS:VTIQW) 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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VectoIQ Acquisition (VectoIQ Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1354 Flagler Drive, Mamaroneck, New York, NY, USA, 10543
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VectoIQ Acquisition Corp operates as a blank check company. The firm intends to focus its search on the industrial technology, transportation, and smart mobility industries.

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