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World Wireless Communications (World Wireless Communications) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $4.26 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2002)


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What is World Wireless Communications Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. World Wireless Communications's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2002 was $1.05 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2002 was $4.26 Mil.


World Wireless Communications Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for World Wireless Communications'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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World Wireless Communications Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

World Wireless Communications Annual Data
Trend Dec99 Dec00 Dec01 Dec02
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
7.27 5.81 6.39 4.26

World Wireless Communications Quarterly Data
Mar99 Jun99 Sep99 Dec99 Mar00 Jun00 Sep00 Dec00 Mar01 Jun01 Sep01 Dec01 Mar02 Jun02 Sep02 Dec02
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 1.42 1.13 1.08 1.00 1.05

Competitive Comparison of World Wireless Communications's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Telecom Services subindustry, World Wireless Communications'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.


World Wireless Communications's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, World Wireless Communications's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where World Wireless Communications's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



World Wireless Communications 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 Dec. 2002 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4.26 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.


World Wireless Communications  (OTCPK:WWRL) 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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World Wireless Communications (World Wireless Communications) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
5670 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Penthouse, Greenwood Village, CO, USA, 80111
World Wireless Communications Inc is a telecom service provider in the United States. The firm is engaged as a developer of wired and wireless telemetry and remote control systems.
Executives
Marty Steinberg 10 percent owner 1111 BRICKELL AVENUE SUITE 2500, MIAMI FL 33131

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