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Multi-Color (Multi-Color) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $161 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2019)


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What is Multi-Color Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Multi-Color's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2019 was $42 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2019 was $161 Mil.


Multi-Color Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Multi-Color'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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Multi-Color Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Multi-Color Annual Data
Trend Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 68.01 82.00 84.92 129.60 160.71

Multi-Color Quarterly Data
Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19
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 39.29 42.77 39.19 36.62 42.14

Competitive Comparison of Multi-Color's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Multi-Color'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.


Multi-Color's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Business Services Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Multi-Color's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Multi-Color 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. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $161 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.


Multi-Color  (NAS:LABL) 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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Multi-Color (Multi-Color) Business Description

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4053 Clough Woods Drive, Batavia, OH, USA, 45103
Multi-Color Corporation is an America-based company that provide label solutions. The company's products include pressure-sensitive labels, in-mold labels, heat-transfer labels, glue-applied labels, glue-applied labels, shrink sleeve labels and graphic services. These products and services primarily aim to fulfill customers' packaging needs. Customers of the company include a wide array of makers of consumer products, personal care products, wine & spirit and specialty consumer products from America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, China, Southeast Asia and others. America is the biggest market for the company, accounting for over half of its revenue.
Executives
Michael W Ranger 10 percent owner C/O TXU CORP, 1601 BRYAN ST, DALLAS TX 75201
Robert R Buck director C/O BEACON ROOFING SUPPLY, INC., 505 HUNTMAR PARK DRIVE SUITE 300, HERNDON VA 20170
Robert Kuhn director C/O APTARGROUP 475 W. TERRA COTTA AVENUE, SUITE E, CRYSTAL LAKE IL 60014
Andrew H Rush 10 percent owner C/O DIAMOND CASTLE HOLDINGS, LLC, 280 PARK AVENUE, 25TH FLOOR, EAST TOWER, NEW YORK NY 10017
Matthew M Walsh director ALLERGAN, 5 GIRALDA FARMS, MADISON NJ 07940
Lorrence T Kellar director C/O LOEHMANNS INC, 2500 HALSEY STREET, BRONX NY 10461
Lee A. Wright director C/O DIAMOND CASTLE HOLDINGS, LLC, 280 PARK AVENUE, 25TH FLOOR, EAST TOWER, NEW YORK NY 10017
James H Reynolds officer: Chief Accounting Officer 201 E FOURTH STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202