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Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) (LSE:EDIN) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £1.2 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Mar. 2024 was £0.6 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was £1.2 Mil.


Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)'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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Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.64 0.83 0.99 1.10 1.19

Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) Semi-Annual Data
Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24
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 0.50 0.51 0.59 0.62 0.58

Competitive Comparison of Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)'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.


Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) 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 Mar. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £1.2 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.


Edinburgh Investment Trust (The)  (LSE:EDIN) 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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Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) (LSE:EDIN) Business Description

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Address
9 Haymarket Square, First Floor, Edinburgh, GBR, EH3 8RY
Edinburgh Investment Trust (The) PLC is an investment trust whose investment objective is to invest in UK securities. The company business consists of investing the pooled funds of its shareholders, according to a specified investment objective and policy, with the mission of spreading investment risk and generating a return for shareholders with the long-term objective of achieving an increase of the net asset value per share in excess of the growth in the FTSE All-Share Index and growth in dividends per share in excess of the rate of UK inflation.

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