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SIMAT (XPAR:MLMAT) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : € Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2017)


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What is SIMAT Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. SIMAT's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2017 was €2.33 Mil. SIMAT does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2017.


SIMAT Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for SIMAT's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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SIMAT Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

SIMAT Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
3.14 2.33

SIMAT Semi-Annual Data
Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 3.14 2.33

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

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, SIMAT'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.


SIMAT's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, SIMAT's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



SIMAT 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.


SIMAT  (XPAR:MLMAT) 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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SIMAT (XPAR:MLMAT) Business Description

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Z.I. Vridi 15 Rue des Petroliers, 15 BP 648, Région des lagunes, Abidjan, CIV, 15
SIMAT operates in the fields of transport auxiliaries while offering a range of integrated services for global services and personalized monitoring of its customers. Its services include handling, transportation, transit, and consignment.

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