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Schroder British Opportunities Trust (LSE:SBO) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0.64 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Schroder British Opportunities Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Schroder British Opportunities Trust's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.31 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.64 Mil.


Schroder British Opportunities Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Schroder British Opportunities Trust'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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Schroder British Opportunities Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Schroder British Opportunities Trust Annual Data
Trend Jun21 Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
- 0.65

Schroder British Opportunities Trust Semi-Annual Data
Dec21 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 0.33 0.32 0.33 0.31

Competitive Comparison of Schroder British Opportunities Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Schroder British Opportunities Trust'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.


Schroder British Opportunities Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Schroder British Opportunities Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Schroder British Opportunities Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Schroder British Opportunities Trust 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 Sep. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.64 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.


Schroder British Opportunities Trust  (LSE:SBO) 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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Schroder British Opportunities Trust (LSE:SBO) Business Description

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Address
1 London Wall Place, London, GBR, EC2Y 5AU
Schroder British Opportunities Trust PLC is an asset and wealth management company. The company offers investment options in Equities, Multi-Asset funds, Fixed income products, Commodities, Real Estate, and Others. The investment objective is to deliver long-term total returns throughout the life of the company by investing in a diversified public equity and private equity portfolio of predominantly UK companies.

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