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Educational Development (Educational Development) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: $32.33 Mil (TTM As of Nov. 2023)
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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Educational Development's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Nov. 2023 was $9.11 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 was $32.33 Mil.


Educational Development Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Educational Development'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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Educational Development Annual Data
Trend Feb14 Feb15 Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 52.65 50.50 92.52 64.68 42.87

Educational Development Quarterly Data
Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 13.62 8.34 7.83 7.05 9.11

Competitive Comparison

For the Publishing subindustry, Educational Development'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.


Educational Development Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Educational Development's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Educational Development's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Educational Development 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $32.33 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.


Educational Development  (NAS:EDUC) 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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Educational Development (Educational Development) Business Description

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Address
5402 South 122nd East Avenue, Tulsa, OK, USA, 74146
Educational Development Corp is the United States trade publisher of the line of educational children's books produced in the United Kingdom. Its business activity functions with two reportable segments: Direct Sales Division segment and Publishing Division segment. The Publishing Division segment markets its products to retail accounts, which include the book, school supplies, toy and gift stores and museums, through commissioned sales representatives, trade and specialty wholesalers and an internal telesales group. The Direct Sales Division segment sells their books and products through independent brand partners direct to the customer. It derives a majority of revenue from the Direct sales division segment.
Executives
O Keefe Daniel E officer: Chief Financial Officer 1221 E HOUSTON, BROKEN ARROW OK 74012
Heather N. Cobb officer: Chief Sales & Marketing Offcr 5402 S. 122ND ST. EAST AVE., TULSA OK 74137
Craig M White officer: VP, Operations 10302 E 55TH PL, TULSA OK 74146
Bradely Von Stoots director 5402 S. 122ND EAST AVE, TULSA OK 74146
Randall W White director, 10 percent owner, officer: President & CEO
Joshua J Peters director 5402 S. 122ND EAST AVE, TULSA OK 74146
Ronald T Mcdaniel officer: Vice President
Besty Richert director 5402 S. 122ND EAST AVE, TULSA OK 74146
Kara Gae Neal director 5402 S. 122ND EAST AVE, TULSA OK 74146
James F Lewis director
G Dean Cosgrove director
William C Fossett officer: Controller & Corporate Secreta
John A Clerico director 3132 S COLUMBIA CIRCLE, TULSA OK 74105
Robert D Berryhill director PO BOX 1120, BIXBY OK 74008
Kathy Slemp officer: Vice President

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