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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Western Asset Global Defined Opp's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Apr. 2024 was $0.15 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2024 was $0.35 Mil.
The historical data trend for Western Asset Global Defined Opp'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.
Western Asset Global Defined Opp Annual Data | ||||||||||||||||
Trend | Oct17 | Oct18 | Oct19 | Oct20 | Oct21 | Oct22 | Oct23 | |||||||||
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense | Get a 7-Day Free Trial | 0.27 | 0.36 | 0.31 | 0.29 | 0.37 |
Western Asset Global Defined Opp Semi-Annual Data | ||||||||||||||
Oct17 | Apr18 | Oct18 | Apr19 | Oct19 | Apr20 | Oct20 | Apr21 | Oct21 | Apr22 | Oct22 | Apr23 | Oct23 | Apr24 | |
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense | Get a 7-Day Free Trial | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 0.15 |
For the Asset Management subindustry, Western Asset Global Defined Opp'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.
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Western Asset Global Defined Opp's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Western Asset Global Defined Opp's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
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 Apr. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.35 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.
Western Asset Global Defined Opp (NYSE:GDO) 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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Oliveira Marc De | officer: Secretary/Chief Legal Officer | C/O LEGG MASON & CO. LLC, ONE FIRST STAMFORD PLACE, STAMFORD CT 06902 |
Hoffmann Courtney A. | other: Secretary/GC Subadviser | WESTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC, 385 EAST COLORADO BOULEVARD, PASADENA CA 91101 |
Andrew J. Bowden | other: COO/Subadviser | WESTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC, 385 EAST COLORADO BOULEVARD, PASADENA CA 91101 |
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