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Legible (XCNQ:READ) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$3.19 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Legible's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was C$0.92 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was C$3.19 Mil.


Legible Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Legible Annual Data
Trend Jun20 Jun21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.10 0.11 5.54 3.97

Legible Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Sep23 Dec23
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 0.74 0.62 1.01 1.27 0.92

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

For the Publishing subindustry, Legible'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.


Legible's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Legible's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Legible 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 quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$3.19 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.


Legible  (XCNQ:READ) 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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Legible (XCNQ:READ) Business Description

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2230 Ontario Street, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V5T 2X2
Legible Inc is a book entertainment and media company. The Company has developed two high-value verticals; firstly, a browser first accessible B2C eBook entertainment platform for the emerging web with high-growth potential called legible.com - an eBook entertainment platform delivering beautiful, accessible & immersive reading for next-generation readers; and secondly, a B2B eBook conversion and production service with high-revenue potential called Legible Publishing.
Executives
Angela Jean Doll Senior Officer

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