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United Therapeutics (United Therapeutics) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $477 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is United Therapeutics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. United Therapeutics's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $132 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $477 Mil.


United Therapeutics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for United Therapeutics'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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United Therapeutics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

United Therapeutics 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 336.20 423.90 467.00 482.10 477.10

United Therapeutics 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 163.20 87.30 130.00 127.60 132.20

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, United Therapeutics'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.


United Therapeutics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, United Therapeutics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



United Therapeutics 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 $477 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.


United Therapeutics  (NAS:UTHR) 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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United Therapeutics (United Therapeutics) Business Description

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Address
1040 Spring Street, Silver Spring, MD, USA, 20910
United Therapeutics specializes in drug development for pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare and progressive disease marked by abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. The company's therapies for PAH largely focus on the prostacyclin pathway, and many of its treatments are based on the same molecule, treprostinil. Most of the company's sales are generated within the United States. United Therapeutics also markets a pediatric oncology drug, but its focus largely remains in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Executives
Paul A Mahon officer: EVP & General Counsel
Nilda Mesa director C/O UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION, 1040 SPRING STREET, SILVER SPRING MD 20910
Christopher Causey director
Martine A Rothblatt director, officer: Chief Executive Officer
Louis W Sullivan director
Judy D. Olian director 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS 12TH FL, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Michael Benkowitz officer: President and COO C/O UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORP, 1040 SPRING STREET, SILVER SPRING MD 20910
Christopher Patusky director
Raymond Dwek director
Linda Maxwell director 1040 SPRING STREET, SILVER SPRING NC 27709
Tommy G Thompson director 7711 CARONDELET, ST. LOUIS MO 63105
Katherine J Klein director STEINBERG HALL-DIETRICH HALL, 3620 LOCUST WALK, PHILADELPHIA PA 19104
Richard Giltner director C/O UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORTION, 1735 CONNECTICUT AVE. NW, WASHINGTON DC 20009
Roger Jeffs director, officer: President and COO
David Zaccardelli officer: EVP & Chief Operating Officer 300 TRI STATE INTERNATIONAL, SUITE 272, LINCOLNSHIRE IL 60069