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Histogen (Histogen) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $8.80 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Histogen's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was $2.87 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $8.80 Mil.


Histogen Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Histogen Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
6.21 6.59 7.80 9.39

Histogen Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
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 2.70 1.88 2.49 1.56 2.87

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Histogen'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.


Histogen's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Histogen's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Histogen 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 Sep. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $8.80 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.


Histogen  (OTCPK:HSTO) 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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Histogen (Histogen) Business Description

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10655 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121
Histogen Inc is a clinical-stage therapeutics company focused on developing proprietary hypoxia-generated growth factor technology platforms and stem cell-free biologic products as potential first-in-class restorative therapeutics that ignite the body's natural process to repair and maintain healthy biological function. Under its biologics technology platform, the product candidates in development are HST-003, a treatment for joint cartilage repair, and HST-004, a treatment for spinal disc repair. It also has a pipeline of clinical and preclinical small molecule pan-caspase and caspase selective inhibitors focused on treatments for infectious and inflammatory diseases that the company intends to develop.
Executives
Joyce Reyes officer: See Remarks 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Richard W Pascoe director, officer: See Remarks C/O SEELOS THERAPEUTICS, INC., 300 PARK AVENUE, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Rochelle Fuhrmann director C/O WARNER CHILCOTT CORPORATION, 100 ENTERPRISE DRIVE, ROCKAWAY NJ 07866
Susan Richards Windham-bannister director 78 BLANCHARD ROAD, BURLINGTON MA 01803
Moya Daniels officer: See Remarks 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Susan A. Knudson officer: See Remarks 9191 TOWNE CENTRE DRIVE, SUITE 400, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Jonathan Jackson director, 10 percent owner C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Gail K Naughton officer: See Remarks C. R. BARD, INC., 730 CENTRAL AVENUE, MURRAY HILL NJ 07974
David Hugh Crean director C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Stephen Chang director 12912 CAMINO DEL VALLE, POWAY CA 92064
Brian Satz director C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Yizhuo Zhang director C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Martin Latterich officer: See Remarks C/O HISTOGEN INC., 10655 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Steven J Mento director C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC., 501 CANAL BLVD SUITE A-100, RICHMOND CA 94804
Keith W Marshall officer: EVP, COO & CFO C/O CONATUS PHARMACEUTICALS INC., 16745 WEST BERNARDO DRIVE, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92127