GURUFOCUS.COM » STOCK LIST » Healthcare » Healthcare Providers & Services » Spok Holdings Inc (NAS:SPOK) » Definitions » Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

Spok Holdings (Spok Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $71.7 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


View and export this data going back to 2004. Start your Free Trial

What is Spok Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Spok Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $18.0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $71.7 Mil.


Spok Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Spok Holdings'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.

* Premium members only.

Spok Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Spok Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 93.30 85.71 89.21 77.13 71.66

Spok Holdings 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 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 18.11 17.46 18.39 17.86 17.95

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

For the Health Information Services subindustry, Spok Holdings'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.


Spok Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Spok Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Spok Holdings 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 $71.7 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.


Spok Holdings  (NAS:SPOK) 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.


Spok Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Spok Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.


Spok Holdings (Spok Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5911 Kingstown Village Parkway, 6th Floor, Alexandria, VA, USA, 22315
Spok Holdings Inc is a provider of healthcare communications. It reports three market segments namely Healthcare, Government, and Large enterprise. The company provides paging services and software solutions in the United States and abroad.
Executives
Vincent D Kelly director, officer: President & CEO C/O RENTON MEDIA INC, 1300 EAST NINTH ST, CLEVELAND OH 44114
Sharon Woods-keisling officer: Corporate Secretary, Treasurer 6677 RICHMOND HIGHWAY, ALEXANDRIA VA 22306
Michael W Wallace officer: Chief Financial Officer SAWGRASS CORPORATE INDUSTRIAL PARK, 14000 NW 4TH ST, SUNRISE FL 33325
Calvin Rice officer: Controller C/O SPOK HOLDINGS, INC., 6850 VERSAR CTR STE 420, SPRINGFIELD VA 22151
Todd J Stein director C/O SPOK HOLDINGS, INC., 6850 VERSAR CTR STE 420, SPRINGFIELD VA 22151
Barbara Peterson Byrne director C/O SPOK HOLDINGS, INC., 6850 VERSAR CTR STE 420, SPRINGFIELD VA 22315
Randy Hyun director C/O SPOK HOLDINGS, INC., 5911 KINGSTOWNE VILLAGE PARKWAY 6TH FLR, ALEXANDRIA VA 22315
Matthew Oristano director C/O ARCH WIRELESS INC, 1800 WEST PARK DR. #250, WESTBOROUGH MA 01581
Brian Oreilly director C/O METROCALL, 6677 RICHMOND HWY, ALEXANDRIA VA 22306
Christine Cournoyer director 150 SHAW ROAD, CHESTNUT MA 02467
Brett A Shockley director 7125 NORTHLAND TERRACE, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55428
Royce Yudkoff director C/O METROCALL, 6677 RICHMOND HWY, ALEXANDRIA VA 22306
Stacia Hylton director 6850 VERSAR CENTER STE 420, SPRINGFIELD VA 22151
Tom Saine officer: Chief Technology Officer 6677 RICHMOND HIGHWAY, ALEXANDIRA VA 22306
Ted Peterman officer: Controller C/O SPōK HOLDINGS, INC., 6850 VERSAR CTR STE 420, SPRINGFIELD VA 22151

Spok Holdings (Spok Holdings) Headlines

From GuruFocus

SPOK TO PRESENT AT THE INAUGURAL EF HUTTON GLOBAL CONFERENCE

By sperokesalga sperokesalga 05-08-2023

Spok Sets Date to Report Third Quarter 2021 Results

By Business Wire Business Wire 10-28-2021

Spok Earns Top Client Satisfaction Scores for Sixth Consecutive Year

By Business Wire Business Wire 02-28-2023

Spok Announces ISO 13485:2016 Certification

By Business Wire Business Wire 02-07-2023

Spok Announces New Strategic Business Plan

By Business Wire Business Wire 02-17-2022

Spok set to join Russell 3000� and Russell 2000� Index

By Business Wire Business Wire 05-22-2023