GURUFOCUS.COM » STOCK LIST » Financial Services » Capital Markets » Mercury Securities Group Bhd (XKLS:0285) » Definitions » Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

Mercury Securities Group Bhd (XKLS:0285) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : RM11.23 Mil (TTM As of Oct. 2023)


View and export this data going back to 2023. Start your Free Trial

What is Mercury Securities Group Bhd Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Mercury Securities Group Bhd's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Oct. 2023 was RM10.43 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2023 was RM11.23 Mil.


Mercury Securities Group Bhd Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Mercury Securities Group Bhd'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.

* Premium members only.

Mercury Securities Group Bhd Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Mercury Securities Group Bhd Annual Data
Trend Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
2.21 2.01 1.80 7.14 11.23

Mercury Securities Group Bhd Semi-Annual Data
Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Apr22 Oct22 Apr23 Oct23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 0.82 6.32 0.80 10.43

Competitive Comparison of Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Mercury Securities Group Bhd'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.


Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Mercury Securities Group Bhd 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 Oct. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was RM11.23 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.


Mercury Securities Group Bhd  (XKLS:0285) 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.


Mercury Securities Group Bhd Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Mercury Securities Group Bhd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.


Mercury Securities Group Bhd (XKLS:0285) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
No. 2 Jalan Solaris, L-7-2, Solaris Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, MYS, 50480
Mercury Securities Group Bhd is an investment holding company and through its subsidiaries, It is principally engaged in stockbroking, corporate finance advisory and other related businesses as well as the provision of nominee and custodian services. Mercury provides stockbroking services comprising execution of trades of securities listed on Bursa Securities and foreign stock exchanges mainly in Singapore, Hong Kong and the USA, as well as margin financing facility services, nominees, custodians and related services. It is also licensed by the Securities Commission Malaysia to undertake regulated corporate finance activities as a Principal or Independent Advisor.

Mercury Securities Group Bhd (XKLS:0285) Headlines

No Headlines