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


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What is Stella Diagnostics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Stella Diagnostics's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was $0.40 Mil. Stella Diagnostics does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023.


Stella Diagnostics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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Stella Diagnostics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

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Stella Diagnostics Quarterly Data
Sep22 Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 0.47 0.40

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

For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, Stella Diagnostics'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.


Stella Diagnostics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry

For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, Stella Diagnostics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Stella Diagnostics 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.


Stella Diagnostics  (OTCPK:SLDX) 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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Stella Diagnostics (Stella Diagnostics) Business Description

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50 West Broadway, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 84104
Stella Diagnostics Inc is a molecular diagnostics-based organization focused on improving patient management strategies for people living with severe esophageal disease. It is developing first-line diagnostic tools that provide superior molecular information for providers as compared to the current standard screening protocols.

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