Rue du Commerce (XPAR:RDC) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €31.7 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2012)

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What is Rue du Commerce Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Rue du Commerce's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Mar. 2012 was €17.9 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2012 was €31.7 Mil.

Rue du Commerce Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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Rue du Commerce Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Rue du Commerce Annual Data

Trend

Mar09

Mar10

Mar11

Mar12

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

31.94

34.85

31.05

31.67

Rue du Commerce Semi-Annual Data
	Mar09	Sep09	Mar10	Sep10	Mar11	Sep11	Mar12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial			21.33	13.60	17.45	13.73	17.94

Competitive Comparison of Rue du Commerce's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Rue du Commerce'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.

Rue du Commerce's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Rue du Commerce's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

Rue du Commerce 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 Mar. 2012 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €31.7 Mil.

Rue du Commerce (XPAR:RDC) 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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