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Design Capital (HKSE:01545) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : HK$136.1 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Design Capital Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Design Capital's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$67.7 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$136.1 Mil.


Design Capital Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Design Capital Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 152.97 136.79 120.12 127.23 136.66

Design Capital Semi-Annual Data
Dec16 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 60.13 59.60 66.69 68.43 67.72

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

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Design Capital'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.


Design Capital's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Design Capital's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Design Capital 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 HK$136.1 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.


Design Capital  (HKSE:01545) 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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Design Capital (HKSE:01545) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
130 Joo Seng Road, No. 07-05, Singapore, SGP, 368357
Design Capital Ltd is an investment holding company. Along with its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the segments of Interior design, Furniture sales, U.S. furniture sales, and corporate. Furniture sales include both furniture sales and project sales and U.S. furniture sales. It derives prime revenue from the U.S. furniture sales segment which represents online sales of furniture in the U.S. market. Geographically the group has a business presence in the U.S., Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei.
Executives
Beh Pur-lin Elaine
Goon Eu Jin Terence
Nobel Design International Limited
Tan Thiam Siew
Wee Ai Quey
Kho Chuan Thye Patrick
Sng Su Ying Marian
Kho Choon Keng
Lian Huat Group Pte. Ltd.
Lian Keng Enterprises Pte Ltd
Southern Cross Holdings Pte. Ltd.
Yuen Woon Siew Marilyn

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