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Bufab AB (OSTO:BUFAB) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : kr1,488 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Bufab AB Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Bufab AB's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was kr390 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was kr1,488 Mil.


Bufab AB Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Bufab AB 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 815.00 835.00 950.00 1,389.00 1,472.00

Bufab AB Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 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 373.00 370.00 373.00 355.00 390.00

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

For the Industrial Distribution subindustry, Bufab AB'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.


Bufab AB's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Distribution Industry

For the Industrial Distribution industry and Industrials sector, Bufab AB's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Bufab AB 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 quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was kr1,488 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.


Bufab AB  (OSTO:BUFAB) 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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Bufab AB (OSTO:BUFAB) Business Description

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Box 2266, Varnamo, SWE, SE-331 02
Bufab AB is a trading company. The company offers its customers a full-service solution as a Supply Chain Partner for sourcing, quality control, and logistics for C-parts screws, nuts, and washers. The group serves a variety of industries, including telecommunication, automotive, furniture, offshore, refining industry, and construction sector. Its geographical segments are North (Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark), West (n France, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Spain), East (Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Baltic States, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, China, Singapore and other countries in Southeast Asia, and India), and UK/North America (UK, Ireland, the United States, and Mexico).

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