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Smiths Group (Smiths Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $809 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Smiths Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Smiths Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jan. 2024 was $402 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $809 Mil.


Smiths Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Smiths Group'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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Smiths Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Smiths Group Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 799.50 791.61 750.00 660.67 807.99

Smiths Group Semi-Annual Data
Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
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 361.79 340.53 380.66 407.22 401.53

Competitive Comparison of Smiths Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Smiths Group'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.


Smiths Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Smiths Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Smiths Group 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 Jan. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $809 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.


Smiths Group  (OTCPK:SMGKF) 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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Smiths Group (Smiths Group) Business Description

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11-12 St James’s Square, 4th Floor, London, GBR, SW1Y 4LB
With its start as a London jeweler in the 19th century, Smiths Group has for most of its history operated as a company operating disparate but economically attractive businesses. Thematically, it runs businesses that manufacture niche products in security- or safety-sensitive industries. Today, the business is split across four divisions: mechanical seals, weapons detection, electrical connectors, and specialized hoses. The end customers for these products include airports, NASA, government security or defense departments, and hospitals.

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