Telefonica Brasil (Telefonica Brasil) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1,760 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Telefonica Brasil Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Telefonica Brasil's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $600 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,760 Mil.

Telefonica Brasil Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Telefonica Brasil's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Telefonica Brasil Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Telefonica Brasil Annual Data

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Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

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3,494.66

2,612.01

1,799.36

2,037.43

2,325.54

Telefonica Brasil Quarterly Data
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Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															508.68	530.07	579.24	580.73	600.35

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

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Telefonica Brasil'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.

Telefonica Brasil's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

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

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Telefonica Brasil 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 $1,760 Mil.

Telefonica Brasil (NYSE:VIV) 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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TSPA:Germany VIVT3:Brazil VIV:Argentina

Address

Avenida Engenheiro Luis Carlos Berrini, 1376, 32nd Floor, Sao Paulo, SP, BRA, 04571-936

Website

https://www.telefonica.com.br

Telefonica Brasil, known as Vivo, is the largest wireless carrier in Brazil with 98 million customers, equal to about 40% market share. The firm is strongest in the postpaid business, where it has 60 million customers, about 42% share of this market. It is the incumbent fixed-line telephone operator in Sao Paulo state and, following the acquisition of GVT, the owner of an extensive fiber network across the country. The firm provides internet access to 6 million households on this network. Following its parent Telefonica's footsteps, Vivo is cross-selling fixed-line and wireless services as a converged offering. The firm also sells pay-tv services to its fixed-line customers.