SUPERVALU (SUPERVALU) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1,123 Mil (TTM As of Aug. 2018)

SUPERVALU Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

SUPERVALU Annual Data
	Trend	Feb09	Feb10	Feb11	Feb12	Feb13	Feb14	Feb15	Feb16	Feb17	Feb18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					2,117.00	1,648.00	1,224.00	1,187.00	1,258.00

SUPERVALU Quarterly Data
	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16	May16	Aug16	Nov16	Feb17	May17	Aug17	Nov17	Feb18	May18	Aug18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															323.00	370.00	-31.00	428.00	356.00

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

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, SUPERVALU'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.

SUPERVALU's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, SUPERVALU's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

SUPERVALU 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. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,123 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.

SUPERVALU  (NYSE:SVU) 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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