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TGS ASA (OSL:TGS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : kr0 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is TGS ASA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. TGS ASA's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was kr0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was kr0 Mil.


TGS ASA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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

For the Oil & Gas Equipment & Services subindustry, TGS ASA'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.


TGS ASA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, TGS ASA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



TGS ASA 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 kr0 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.


TGS ASA  (OSL:TGS) 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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TGS ASA (OSL:TGS) Business Description

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TGS ASA provides geoscientific data products and services to the oil and gas industry to assist with licensing rounds and the preparation of regional data programs. It invests in multiclient data projects in frontier, emerging, and mature markets worldwide to develop a library of seismic imaging, well data, and interpretive products and services. Reportable segments are Western Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere, Digital Energy Solutions, Data Acquisition and Others. The company offers interpretation studies and services that integrate seismic, well logs, biostratigraphic data, core data and other geoscientific data to create basin-wide regional frameworks. TGS' geoscientists also contract consulting work in geology, geophysics, and petrophysics. Majority revenue comes from Latin America.

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