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CTS (CTS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $83.8 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. CTS's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $19.5 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $83.8 Mil.


CTS Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

CTS 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 70.41 67.79 82.60 91.52 83.82

CTS 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 23.49 21.98 23.69 18.67 19.48

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

For the Electronic Components subindustry, CTS'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.


CTS's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, CTS's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



CTS 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 $83.8 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.


CTS  (NYSE:CTS) 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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CTS (CTS) Business Description

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Address
4925 Indiana Avenue, Lisle, IL, USA, 60532
CTS Corp operates in the electronics industry. The company is a global manufacturer of Sensors, Electronic components, and Actuators. It designs, manufactures, and sells a broad line of sensors, electronic components, and actuators mainly to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for the aerospace and defense, industrial, information technology, medical, telecommunications, and transportation markets. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States and also has a presence in China; Singapore; the Czech Republic; Taiwan and other countries.
Executives
Randy Lee Stone director 974 CENTRE ROAD, CRP 730, WILMINGTON DE 19805
Kieran M O'sullivan director, officer: President & CEO 2375 CABOT DRIVE, LISLE IL 60532
Martin Baumeister officer: Senior Vice President 4925 INDIANA AVENUE, LISLE IL 60532
Michael Edward Murray officer: Senior Vice President 4925 INDIANA AVENUE, LISLE IL 60532
Ye Jane Li director 200 FLYNN ROAD, CAMARILLO CA 93012-8790
Ashish Agrawal officer: CFO 2375 CABOT DRIVE, LISLE IL 60525
Thomas Michael White officer: Controller and PAO 4925 INDIANA AVENUE, LISLE IL 60532
Scott D'angelo officer: VP & Secretary 4925 INDIANA AVENUE, LISLE IL 60532
Donna Costello director 17 STEWART COURT, WESTWOOD NJ 07675
Alfonso G Zulueta director 4925 INDIANA AVE, LISLE IL 60532
Gordon Hunter director 25950 ELENA RD, LOS ALTOS HILLS CA 94022
Diana M Murphy director C/O LANDSTAR SYSTEM INC, 13410 SUTTON PARK DR S, JACKSONVILLE FL 32224
William S Johnson director C/O CABOT MICROELECTRONICS, 870 N. COMMONS DR, AURORA IL 60504
Luis Francisco Machado officer: VP, General Counsel & Sec. 1142 W. BEARDSLEY AVENUE, ELKHART IN 46514
Rajeeb K Nath officer: Vice President 1142 WEST BEARDSLEY AVENUE, ELKHART IN 46514