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First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund (First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.22 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2022)


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What is First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2022 was $0.16 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 was $0.22 Mil.


First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund'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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First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.52 0.49 0.48 0.50 0.22

First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund Semi-Annual Data
Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.26 0.24 0.15 0.07 0.16

Competitive Comparison of First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund'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.


First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund 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 Jun. 2022 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.22 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.


First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund  (NYSE:FEO) 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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First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund (First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400, Wheaton, IL, USA, 60187
First Trust/aberdeen Emerging Opp Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of total return. The fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing a majority of its managed assets in a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed-income securities of issuers in emerging market countries.
Executives
Marika Tooze director C/O ABRDN, 1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Saba Capital Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
Boaz Weinstein 10 percent owner 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 58TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10174
M Keefe Denise director C/O FIRST TRUST ADVISORS L.P., 120 EAST LIBERTY DRIVE, SUITE 400, WHEATON IL 60187
Kelly Catherine Dehler other: Officer- Investment Advisor C/O FIRST TRUST ADVISORS L.P., 120 EAST LIBERTY DRIVE, SUITE 400, WHEATON IL 60187
Scott Michael Friske other: Officer - Investment Advisor FIRST TRUST ADVISORS L.P., 120 EAST LIBERTY DRIVE, SUITE 400, WHEATON IL 60187
Mickey Janvier other: Director of Sub-Adviser C/O ABERDEEN STANDARD INVESTMENTS, 1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
James Joseph O'connor other: Director of Sub-Adviser C/O ABERDEEN STANDARD INVESTMENTS, 1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Joseph Andolina other: Officer-Investment Sub-Advisor 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Chris Demetriou other: Officer-Invest. Sub-Advisor 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Ralph Bassett other: Officer-Investment Sub-Advisor 1735 MARKET ST., 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Sofia Rosala other: Officer-Investment Sub-Advisor 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Charles Tan other: Officer-Investment Sub-Advisor 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Shane Shannon officer: Assistant Secretary FIRST TRUST ADVISORS L.P., 120 EAST LIBERTY DRIVE, SUITE 400, WHEATON IL 60187
Jeffrey Cotton other: Officer-Investment Sub-Advisor 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103

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