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Apple Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: $20,350 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2020)
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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Apple's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2020 was $5,631 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2020 was $20,350 Mil.

Apple Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Apple Annual Data
Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 14,194.00 15,261.00 16,705.00 18,245.00 19,916.00

Apple Quarterly Data
Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5,197.00 4,952.00 4,831.00 4,936.00 5,631.00
Competitive Comparison
* 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.

Apple Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

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


Apple 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. 2020 was 4952 (Mar. 2020 ) + 4831 (Jun. 2020 ) + 4936 (Sep. 2020 ) + 5631 (Dec. 2020 ) = $20,350 Mil.

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Apple  (NAS:AAPL) 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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