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Service Stream (ASX:SSM) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$608 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Service Stream Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Service Stream's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$313 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$608 Mil.


Service Stream Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Service Stream Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 208.10 226.92 228.81 398.51 531.05

Service Stream Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 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 153.02 245.48 236.11 294.95 313.33

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

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Service Stream'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.


Service Stream's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Service Stream's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Service Stream 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 semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$608 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.


Service Stream  (ASX:SSM) 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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Service Stream (ASX:SSM) Business Description

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Address
357 Collins Street, Level 4, Melbourne, VIC, AUS, 3000
Service Stream Ltd is engaged in the provision of telecommunications and network services. The operating business segments are Telecommunications and Utilities. The Telecommunications segment provides a range of operations, maintenance, installation, design and construction services to the owners of fixed-line and wireless telecommunication networks in Australia. Utilities segment provide operations, maintenance, design and construction services, as well as specialist metering, new energy and inspection services to the gas, water and electricity network owners and others. It generates revenue from the provision of ticket of work services, delivery of projects, cost reimbursable contracts and overhead recovery.

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