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Canon (FSE:7751) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : 円1,329,147 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2024)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Canon's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2024 was 円348,137 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2024 was 円1,329,147 Mil.


Canon Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Canon 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 1,137,110.00 993,009.00 1,058,536.00 1,167,673.00 1,261,630.00

Canon Quarterly Data
Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24
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 306,492.00 315,099.00 347,002.00 318,909.00 348,137.00

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

For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Canon'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.


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

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

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



Canon 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was 円1,329,147 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.


Canon  (FSE:7751) 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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Canon Inc designs, manufactures and distributes an extensive range of consumer and electronic products, including copiers, cameras, lenses, and inkjet printers. The company operates four major business segments: printing, imaging, medical, industrial, and others. It generates maximum revenue from the printing segment. Printing Business Unit includes Office multifunction devices (MFDs), Document solutions, Laser multifunction printers (MFPs), Laser printers, Inkjet printers, Image scanners, Calculators, Digital continuous feed presses, Digital sheet-fed presses, and Large format printers.

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