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Taiwan Mobile Co (TPE:3045) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : NT$17,824 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Taiwan Mobile 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. Taiwan Mobile Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$4,652 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$17,824 Mil.


Taiwan Mobile Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Taiwan Mobile Co'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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Taiwan Mobile Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Taiwan Mobile Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 15,710.96 15,316.38 15,538.29 16,493.99 17,304.87

Taiwan Mobile Co Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Taiwan Mobile Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Taiwan Mobile 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.


Taiwan Mobile Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Taiwan Mobile Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Taiwan Mobile 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.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was NT$17,824 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.


Taiwan Mobile Co  (TPE:3045) 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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Taiwan Mobile Co (TPE:3045) Business Description

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Address
No. 88, YanChang Road, 13th Floor, Taipei, TWN, 110
Taiwan Mobile Co Ltd is engaged in providing wireless communication service, sale of mobile phones, and accessories, games, ebooks, and value-added services. The reportable segments of the company are telecommunication, retail, cable television, and others. The telecommunication segment engages in providing mobile communication services, data mobile services, and fixed line services retail segment in providing online shopping, TV shopping, and catalog shopping, cable television in providing pay TV and cable broadband services, and others in business other than telecommunication, retail, and cable television. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the telecommunication and retail segment.

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