Avalara (NYSE:AVLR) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: $510.7 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2022)

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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Avalara's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2022 was $145.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 was $510.7 Mil.

Avalara Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Avalara's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Avalara Annual Data

Trend

Dec15

Dec16

Dec17

Dec18

Dec19

Dec20

Dec21

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

168.08

208.42

241.51

303.31

438.56

Avalara Quarterly Data
	Sep17	Dec17	Mar18	Jun18	Sep18	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense																108.76	111.75	124.51	128.64	145.83

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Application subindustry, Avalara'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.

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Avalara Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Avalara's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Avalara's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Selling, General, & Admin. Expense's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.

Avalara 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 Jun. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $510.7 Mil.

Avalara (NYSE:AVLR) 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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Avalara (NYSE:AVLR) Business Description

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Address

255 South King Street, Suite 1800, Seattle, WA, USA, 98104

Website

https://www.avalara.com

Avalara Inc provides compliance solutions. It provides software solutions that help businesses of all types and sizes comply with tax requirements for transactions worldwide. The company offers a broad and growing suite of compliance solutions for transaction taxes, such as sales and use tax, VAT, fuel excise tax, beverage alcohol, cross-border taxes, lodging tax, and communications tax. These solutions enable customers to automate the process of determining taxability, identifying applicable tax rates, determining and collecting taxes, preparing and filing returns, remitting taxes, maintaining tax records, and managing compliance documents. It generates revenue in the form of subscriptions and professional services.

Executives

Marcela Martin	director	C/O SQUARESPACE, INC., 225 VARICK STREET, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10014
Bruce T Crawford	director	255 SOUTH KING ST., SUITE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104
Srinivas Tallapragada	director	THE LANDMARK AT ONE MARKET STREET, #300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Ross Tennenbaum	officer: See Remarks	255 S KING ST, STE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104
Brian Sharples	director	1250 CAPITAL OF TX HWY, BLDG 2, PLAZA 1, AUSTIN TX 78746
Wp Avlr Holdco Llc	10 percent owner	C/O WARBURG PINCUS LLC, 450 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Amit Mathradas	officer: See Remarks	255 S KING ST, STE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104
Kathleen Zwickert	director	255 S KING ST, STE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104
William Ingram	officer: See Remarks	C/O LEAP WIRELESS INTERNATIONAL, INC., 5887 COPLEY DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92111
Dooren Pascal Van	officer: See Remarks	255 SOUTH KING ST., SUITE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104
Rajeev Singh	director	6222 185TH AVENUE NE, REDMOND WA 98052
Marion R Foote	director	C/O KINETA, INC., 219 TERRY AVE. N., SUITE 300, SEATTLE WA 98109
Chelsea R. Stoner	director	C/O AVALARA, INC., 255 SOUTH KING ST., SUITE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104
Jared R. Vogt	director	C/O AVALARA, INC., 255 SOUTH KING ST., SUITE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104
Daniel E. Manning	officer: Chief Accounting Officer	255 SOUTH KING ST., SUITE 1800, SEATTLE WA 98104