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LightInTheBox Holding Co (LightInTheBox Holding Co) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $336.8 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is LightInTheBox Holding Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. LightInTheBox Holding Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $45.7 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $336.8 Mil.


LightInTheBox Holding Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for LightInTheBox Holding Co'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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LightInTheBox Holding Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

LightInTheBox Holding Co 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 113.82 173.27 193.91 258.92 336.77

LightInTheBox Holding Co 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 58.77 86.81 112.12 92.17 45.68

Competitive Comparison of LightInTheBox Holding Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Internet Retail subindustry, LightInTheBox Holding Co'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.


LightInTheBox Holding Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, LightInTheBox Holding Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



LightInTheBox Holding Co 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 $336.8 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.


LightInTheBox Holding Co  (NYSE:LITB) 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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LightInTheBox Holding Co (LightInTheBox Holding Co) Business Description

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Address
51 Tai Seng Avenue, No. 05-02B/C, Pixel Red, Singapore, SGP, 533941
LightInTheBox Holding Co Ltd is an online retail company delivering products directly to consumers across the world. It provides apparel products including customized, special occasion and fast fashion apparel products; and other general merchandise products, such as accessories and gadgets, home and garden products, electronics and communication devices, and other products. The company is engaged in product sales which consisted of online retailing of consumer products. It also provides services which consisted of the provision of logistic services to e-commerce retailers and small businesses. Geographically, it operates in Europe which is the key revenue driver, North America, and other countries.