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Avacta Group (LSE:AVCT) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £16.86 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Avacta Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Avacta Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was £8.21 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was £16.86 Mil.


Avacta Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Avacta Group Annual Data
Trend Jul13 Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.24 5.93 8.14 13.52 16.86

Avacta Group Semi-Annual Data
Jul13 Jan14 Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 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 4.56 4.69 8.83 8.65 8.21

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Avacta Group'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.


Avacta Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Avacta Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Avacta Group 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 £16.86 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.


Avacta Group  (LSE:AVCT) 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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Avacta Group (LSE:AVCT) Business Description

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Avacta Group PLC is a United Kingdom-based biotechnology company. The company offers its products through three segments that are Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Animal Health. The company is developing novel cancer immunotherapies combining its two proprietary platforms Affimer biotherapeutics and precision tumor-targeted chemotherapy. The company operates in the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, Rest of Europe, Asia, and North America.

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