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ASOS (ASOMF) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1,907 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2024)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. ASOS's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Feb. 2024 was $1,073 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $1,907 Mil.


ASOS Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

ASOS Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,580.54 1,834.82 2,188.00 2,028.74 2,025.92

ASOS Semi-Annual Data
Aug14 Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24
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 1,174.02 989.70 1,133.09 833.80 1,073.49

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

For the Internet Retail subindustry, ASOS'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.


ASOS's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, ASOS's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



ASOS 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 Feb. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,907 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.


ASOS  (OTCPK:ASOMF) 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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ASOS (ASOMF) Business Description

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Hampstead Road, Greater London House, London, GBR, NW1 7FB
Asos is a global e-commerce player focusing on fashion and cosmetics and targeting the youth segment (20-somethings) globally. Of its revenue, 45% comes from its U.K. home market, 30% from other European Union countries, 13% from the United States, 12% from the rest of the world. The company ships to 240 countries from its three warehouses located in the U.K., continental Europe, and the United States. It offers over 85 000 products on its website from third-party brands and its own labels (Asos Design, Collusion).

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