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Assa Abloy AB (Assa Abloy AB) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $2,744 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Assa Abloy AB Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Assa Abloy AB's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $874 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $2,744 Mil.


Assa Abloy AB Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Assa Abloy AB'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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Assa Abloy AB Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Assa Abloy AB 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 2,073.07 2,346.62 2,123.53 2,300.83 2,822.10

Assa Abloy AB Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 825.96 811.67 843.77 214.57 874.44

Competitive Comparison of Assa Abloy AB's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, Assa Abloy AB'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.


Assa Abloy AB's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Assa Abloy AB's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Assa Abloy AB's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Assa Abloy AB 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 $2,744 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.


Assa Abloy AB  (OTCPK:ASAZY) 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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Assa Abloy AB (Assa Abloy AB) Business Description

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Klarabergsviadukten 90, P.O. Box 70340, Stockholm, SWE, SE-107 23
Assa Abloy is the world's largest supplier of locking and physical access solutions, sporting the world's largest installed base of locks that protect some of the most security-sensitive buildings, such as the European Parliament in Brussels. Three quarters of its revenue comes from government, commercial, and other nonresidential customers. The company's product base is centred on electromechanical locks, which require identification to unlock with a keycard, biometric scan, or personal identification number. Assa Abloy's products are sold directly to security systems integrators, locksmiths, hardware stores, and original equipment manufacturers.

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