Med Paper (CAS:MDP) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : MAD Mil (TTM As of . 20)

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What is Med Paper Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Med Paper's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in . 20 was MAD0.00 Mil. Med Paper does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.

Med Paper Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Med Paper's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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

For the Paper & Paper Products subindustry, Med Paper'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.

Med Paper's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Med Paper's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Med Paper 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.

Med Paper (CAS:MDP) 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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