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Xlife Sciences AG (XSWX:XLS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : CHF2.00 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Xlife Sciences 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. Xlife Sciences AG's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was CHF0.87 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was CHF2.00 Mil.


Xlife Sciences AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Xlife Sciences 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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Xlife Sciences AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Xlife Sciences AG Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.39 1.66 2.52 1.74 2.00

Xlife Sciences AG Semi-Annual Data
Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.23 1.01 0.73 1.13 0.87

Competitive Comparison of Xlife Sciences AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Xlife Sciences 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.


Xlife Sciences AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Xlife Sciences AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Xlife Sciences 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was CHF2.00 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.


Xlife Sciences AG  (XSWX:XLS) 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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Xlife Sciences AG (XSWX:XLS) Business Description

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Talacker 35, Zürich, CHE, 8001
Xlife Sciences AG is a Swiss company with a focus on performance technologies in life sciences. The company allows its investors a very early and direct Entry into the further development of innovative and future-oriented technologies.

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