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Lavoro (Lavoro) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $269 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Lavoro Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Lavoro's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $143 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $269 Mil.


Lavoro Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Lavoro Annual Data
Trend Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
76.07 123.20 202.55 253.03

Lavoro Semi-Annual Data
Jun20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 82.24 110.41 117.90 125.61 142.94

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

For the Agricultural Inputs subindustry, Lavoro'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.


Lavoro's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Agriculture Industry

For the Agriculture industry and Basic Materials sector, Lavoro's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Lavoro 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 $269 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.


Lavoro  (NAS:LVRO) 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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Lavoro (Lavoro) Business Description

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Av. Dr. Cardoso de Melo, 1450, 4th floor, office 401, Sao Paulo, SP, BRA, 04548-005
Lavoro Ltd operates in the agricultural inputs retail market, with operations spread across Brazil and Colombia, and an emergent agricultural input trading company in Uruguay. The reportable segments of the company include the Brazil Cluster, which comprises companies dedicated to the distribution of agricultural inputs such as crop protection, seeds, fertilizers and specialty products, in Brazil; the LATAM Cluster, which includes companies dedicated to the distribution of agricultural inputs outside Brazil (predominantly in Colombia); and the Crop Care Cluster. A substantial part of the company's overall revenue is generated from its Brazil cluster segment.