Summit Financial Group (SMMF)

5.27 +0.12  +2.33%  May 30, 8:00PM Go Pro
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About R&D Expense

R&D expenses are a line item from many companies' income statements.

R&D expense (short for research and development expense) is essentially the amount of money that a company spends to develop new products and services each year. For example, if a pharmaceutical firm hires research scientists to develop new drugs, the salaries of these researchers will generally be expensed in the R&D expense category.

Like marketing expenses, but unlike capital expenditures, R&D expenses are subtracted from revenues every year directly. Therefore, accountants treat R&D spending as an expense rather than as an investment, though there is continuous debate over whether this is the correct classification.

An investor looking at companies with large R&D expenditures should think hard about whether a single company's R&D spending is an expense (like buying rubber to produce tires) or whether it is an investment (like buying machinery to produce tires more efficiently). Determining the answer to that question can have a large impact on how the company is valued.
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SMMF News

Financial Sector Wrap
May 11, 5:08PM
$SMMF filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/3f0c
about 28 days ago by MarketBrief
$SMMF filed latest Proxy Statement with the SEC (Form DEF 14A) http://stks.co/3FUO
about 55 days ago by MarketBrief
$SMMF Insider Buy: $285K of stock bought by Hawse Thomas J Iii (Director) on December 16, 2011 http://stks.co/1bv6
about 164 days ago by MarketBrief
$SMMF filed latest Quarterly Report http://stks.co/yui
about 209 days ago by MarketBrief
Summit Financial Group falls 15.7%
Sep 28, 10:00AM FlyOnTheWall
Summit Financial Group rises 12.6%
Aug 18, 12:00PM FlyOnTheWall

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