International Speedway (International Speedway) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $115.3 Mil (TTM As of Aug. 2019)

International Speedway Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

International Speedway Annual Data
	Trend	Nov09	Nov10	Nov11	Nov12	Nov13	Nov14	Nov15	Nov16	Nov17	Nov18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					108.56	110.22	110.35	111.28	106.57

International Speedway Quarterly Data
	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16	May16	Aug16	Nov16	Feb17	May17	Aug17	Nov17	Feb18	May18	Aug18	Nov18	Feb19	May19	Aug19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															26.79	27.69	29.61	28.88	29.11

Competitive Comparison of International Speedway's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Leisure subindustry, International Speedway'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.

International Speedway's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, International Speedway's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

International Speedway 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 Aug. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $115.3 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.

International Speedway  (NAS:ISCA) 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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