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Argo Living Soils (XCNQ:ARGO) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$0.53 Mil (TTM As of Nov. 2023)


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What is Argo Living Soils Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Argo Living Soils's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Nov. 2023 was C$0.41 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 was C$0.53 Mil.


Argo Living Soils Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Argo Living Soils'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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Argo Living Soils Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Argo Living Soils Annual Data
Trend Nov20 Nov21 Nov22 Nov23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.06 0.42 0.27 0.53

Argo Living Soils Quarterly Data
May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23
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 -0.05 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.41

Competitive Comparison of Argo Living Soils's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Agricultural Inputs subindustry, Argo Living Soils'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.


Argo Living Soils's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Agriculture Industry

For the Agriculture industry and Basic Materials sector, Argo Living Soils's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Argo Living Soils's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Argo Living Soils 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 Nov. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$0.53 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.


Argo Living Soils  (XCNQ:ARGO) 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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Argo Living Soils (XCNQ:ARGO) Business Description

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Address
1130 Pender Street West, Suite 820, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6E 4A4
Argo Living Soils Corp is an agribusiness company specializing in producing and developing organic products including soil amendments, living soils, bio-fertilizers, vermicompost, and compost tea kits formulated specifically for high-value crops.
Executives
Robert Carlo Intile Director

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