WELX (Winland Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $1.08 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2017)

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What is Winland Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Winland Holdings WELX -2.27% Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.08 Mil as of Jun. 2017.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Winland Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2017 was $0.30 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2017 was $1.08 Mil.


Winland Holdings  (OTCPK:WELX) 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.


Winland Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms


Winland Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Winland Holdings'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.

Winland Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Winland Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
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Winland Holdings Quarterly Data
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WELX vs TRCK, IMLE, EMRN: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Winland Holdings'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.


Winland Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Hardware Industry

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

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



Winland Holdings 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 Jun. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.08 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 $1.08 Mil mean?
Winland Holdings (WELX) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.08 Mil as of Jun. 2017. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Winland Holdings and its competitors.
Is Winland Holdings' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Winland Holdings' current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.08 Mil.
How does Winland Holdings' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to TRCK and IMLE?
Winland Holdings' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.08 Mil can be compared against companies in the Hardware 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 Hardware company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Hardware 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 Winland Holdings and its competitors. Winland Holdings's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.08 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Winland Holdings stock overvalued right now?
Winland Holdings (WELX) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.08 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.08 Mil. 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 Winland Holdings (WELX), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.08 Mil as of Jun. 2017. 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.

Winland Holdings Business Description

Address 424 North Riverfront Drive, Suite 110, Mankato, MN, USA, 56001
Winland Holdings Corp designs and develops critical condition monitoring devices, including EnviroAlert Professional, EnviroAlert, WaterBug, TempAlert, and Power Out Alert, to protect assets from risks such as water damage, humidity, temperature extremes, and power loss across industries such as agriculture, construction, healthcare, and manufacturing. Its products are marketed through an international network of distributors, dealers, and integrators and are compatible with hardwired or wireless alarm systems. The company also offers INSIGHT, a cloud-based monitoring platform providing alerting, reporting, and logging services. It operates through three segments: Winland Electronics, which generates the majority of revenue, Winland Capital Corp., and Winland Mining.