Apollo Education Group (Apollo Education Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $697 Mil (TTM As of Nov. 2016)

Apollo Education Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Apollo Education Group Annual Data
	Trend	Aug07	Aug08	Aug09	Aug10	Aug11	Aug12	Aug13	Aug14	Aug15	Aug16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1,355.47	1,208.39	1,047.00	971.19	723.58

Apollo Education Group Quarterly Data
	Feb12	May12	Aug12	Nov12	Feb13	May13	Aug13	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16	May16	Aug16	Nov16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															195.44	193.71	176.79	157.65	168.88

Competitive Comparison of Apollo Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, Apollo Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

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Apollo Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Apollo Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

Apollo Education Group 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 Nov. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $697 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.

Apollo Education Group  (NAS:APOL) 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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