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Infranor Inter AG (XSWX:INI) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : CHF2.97 Mil (TTM As of Apr. 2014)


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What is Infranor Inter AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Infranor Inter AG's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Apr. 2014 was CHF1.69 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2014 was CHF2.97 Mil.


Infranor Inter AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Infranor Inter AG'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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Infranor Inter AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Infranor Inter AG Annual Data
Trend Apr05 Apr06 Apr07 Apr08 Apr09 Apr10 Apr11 Apr12 Apr13 Apr14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.09 3.44 3.15 3.30 2.97

Infranor Inter AG Semi-Annual Data
Oct10 Apr11 Oct11 Apr12 Oct12 Apr13 Oct13 Apr14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 1.83 1.41 1.89 1.28 1.69

Competitive Comparison of Infranor Inter AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Infranor Inter AG'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.


Infranor Inter AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Infranor Inter AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Infranor Inter AG 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 Apr. 2014 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was CHF2.97 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.


Infranor Inter AG  (XSWX:INI) 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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Infranor Inter AG (XSWX:INI) Business Description

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Infranor Inter AG was established in 1941. The Company manufactures & markets solutions for industrial automation. It operates in two divisions: Infranor & Cybelec. Its customers are manufacturers of cables & winding machines, industrial sewing machines, welding assembly robots among others. The Infranor division operates as an industry independent specialist in the general servo and drive technology areas. The Cybelec division provides automation equipment for bending presses including controls, input/output units, fieldbus systems, drives, and motors.

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