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Hills (ASX:HIL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$12.10 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2022)


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What is Hills Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Hills's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2022 was A$10.96 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2022 was A$12.10 Mil.


Hills Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Hills Annual Data
Trend Jun13 Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 54.04 52.73 51.35 40.37 21.44

Hills Semi-Annual Data
Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22
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 19.27 21.10 20.30 1.13 10.96

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

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, Hills'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.


Hills's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Hills's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hills 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. 2022 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$12.10 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.


Hills  (ASX:HIL) 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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Hills (ASX:HIL) Business Description

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3-29 Birnie Avenue, Unit 1, Building F, Lidcombe, NSW, AUS, 2141
Hills Ltd provides technology products and service solutions. Its segments include Hills Health Solutions and Hills Distribution. Hills Health Solutions is engaged in the design, supply, and installation of health technology solutions, nurse call and patient engagement, and other related solutions including security, Wi-Fi, and telephony into the health and aged care sectors. Hills Distribution is engaged in providing a diverse range of products and solutions to assist customers, support end-users within the Satellite, Security, Surveillance, and IT markets. The company earns the majority of its revenue from the Hills Distribution segment. Geographically, the company operates in Australia and New Zealand.

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