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Zurvita Holdings (Zurvita Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $5.44 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2013)


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What is Zurvita Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Zurvita Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jan. 2013 was $2.39 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2013 was $5.44 Mil.


Zurvita Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Zurvita Holdings'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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Zurvita Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Zurvita Holdings Annual Data
Trend Jul07 Jul08 Jul09 Jul10 Jul11 Jul12
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.02 - 6.73 5.53 4.14

Zurvita Holdings Quarterly Data
Apr08 Jul08 Oct08 Jan09 Apr09 Jul09 Oct09 Jan10 Apr10 Jul10 Oct10 Jan11 Apr11 Jul11 Oct11 Jan12 Apr12 Jul12 Oct12 Jan13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.04 1.02 1.06 0.98 2.39

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

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Zurvita Holdings'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.


Zurvita Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Zurvita Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Zurvita Holdings 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 Jan. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $5.44 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.


Zurvita Holdings  (OTCPK:ZRVT) 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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Zurvita Holdings (Zurvita Holdings) Business Description

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Address
800 Gessner Road, Houston, TX, USA, 77024
Zurvita Holdings Inc is a Delaware Corporation. The company is a provider of products and benefits through the use of a multi-level marketing distribution channel which consist of independent business operators. The Company's products include health-related membership programs, residential energy rate plans, identity theft and consumer credit services, as well as numerous low cost ancillary products. It also markets numerous low cost ancillary products such as home warranty, legal assistance and restoration services for identity theft and consumer credit.

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