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Echo Global Logistics (Echo Global Logistics) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $393 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2021)


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What is Echo Global Logistics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Echo Global Logistics's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2021 was $104 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2021 was $393 Mil.


Echo Global Logistics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Echo Global Logistics'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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Echo Global Logistics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Echo Global Logistics Annual Data
Trend Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 270.83 287.23 330.16 313.13 325.21

Echo Global Logistics Quarterly Data
Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21
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 80.53 89.54 96.88 102.71 104.17

Competitive Comparison of Echo Global Logistics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Echo Global Logistics'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.


Echo Global Logistics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Echo Global Logistics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Echo Global Logistics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Echo Global Logistics 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 Sep. 2021 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $393 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.


Echo Global Logistics  (NAS:ECHO) 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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Echo Global Logistics (Echo Global Logistics) Business Description

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Address
600 West Chicago Avenue, Suite 725, Chicago, IL, USA, 60654
Founded in 2005, Echo Global Logistics is an asset-light third-party logistics provider primarily focused on domestic truckload and less-than-truckload brokerage. It also offers intermodal and international air and ocean freight forwarding services, though to a lesser degree. Key strategic initiatives include gaining organic market share in the highly fragmented brokerage industry and supplementing its sales capabilities through tuck-in acquisitions. Echo completed its initial public offering in October 2009.
Executives
Douglas R Waggoner director, officer: Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Wagner Ferguson director C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS, INC. 600 W CHICAGO AVE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Samuel K Skinner director 233 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, 22ND FLOOR, CHICAGO IL 60601
David B Menzel officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS, INC. 600 WEST CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Douglas Hong officer: Controller 600 WEST CHICAGO AVENUE SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Peter Rogers officer: Controller C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Kyle Sauers officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS, 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725, CHICAGO IL 60654
Virginia Henkels director SWIFT TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, 2200 SOUTH 75TH AVENUE, PHOENIX AZ 85043
Farrow William M Iii director C/O CBOE GLOBAL MARKETS, INC., 433 WEST VAN BUREN STREET, CHICAGO IL 60607
Paul Loeb director 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Bradley A Keywell director
Eric P Lefkofsky director, 10 percent owner 501 SILVERSIDE ROAD SUITE 87F, WILMONGTON DE 19809
Evan Schumacher officer: Chief Commercial Officer C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Nelda J Connors director BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, 300 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC WAY, MARLBOROUGH MA 01752-1234
John R Walter director 401 NORTH AHWAHNEE RD, LAKE FOREST IL 60045

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