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Grupo TelevisaB (Grupo TelevisaB) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: $1,230 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 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. Grupo TelevisaB's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $342 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,230 Mil.


Grupo TelevisaB Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Grupo TelevisaB'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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Grupo TelevisaB Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,310.82 1,008.05 998.38 1,113.23 1,253.17

Grupo TelevisaB Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 310.69 281.10 304.66 302.33 341.86

Competitive Comparison

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Grupo TelevisaB'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.


Grupo TelevisaB Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Grupo TelevisaB's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Grupo TelevisaB 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,230 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.


Grupo TelevisaB  (NYSE:TV) 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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Grupo TelevisaB (Grupo TelevisaB) Business Description

Address
Avenida Vasco de Quiroga, No. 2000, Colonia Santa Fe, Mexico, DF, MEX, 01210
Grupo Televisa is one of the leading telecommunication firms in Mexico. Its cable arm, Izzi, holds networks that pass 20 million Mexican homes and provide broadband service to 6 million customers. The firm is also one of the largest pay-television providers in Mexico, with more than 4 million customers. Televisa holds a majority stake in Sky Mexico, the country's only satellite-TV provider, serving about 6 million customers. Televisa holds interests in several smaller businesses, including terrestrial radio, magazine publishing, Mexico bingo parlors, and three of Mexico's professional soccer teams. It plans to spin these businesses off in the near future. After merging its traditional media business into Univision, Televisa owns a 45% stake in combined entity TelevisaUnivision.