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Barka Desalination Co (MUS:BRDE) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ر.ع Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Barka Desalination Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Barka Desalination Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was ر.ع0.25 Mil. Barka Desalination Co does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023.


Barka Desalination Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Barka Desalination Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Barka Desalination Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Barka Desalination Co Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.12 0.18 0.25

Barka Desalination Co Semi-Annual Data
Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 0.12 0.18 0.25

Competitive Comparison of Barka Desalination Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Barka Desalination Co'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.


Barka Desalination Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Barka Desalination Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Barka Desalination Co 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.


Barka Desalination Co  (MUS:BRDE) 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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Barka Desalination Co (MUS:BRDE) Business Description

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Address
Al Wilaj Street, Way No 1013 Al Qurm, PO Box 252, Building No 1022, Office No 16, 1st Floor, Bousher, Muscat, OMN, 103
Barka Desalination Co is engaged in operation of seawater desalination plant in Oman. The objectives of the Company are to acquire, develop, finance, design, construct, operate, maintain a desalination facility at Barka Independent Water Project, a sea water reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant located in Barka, South Batinah Governorate, Sultanate of Oman.

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