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Bechtle AG (Bechtle AG) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $170 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Bechtle AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Bechtle AG's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $224 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $170 Mil.


Bechtle AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Bechtle AG 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 120.12 140.32 121.22 144.22 166.33

Bechtle AG 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 210.83 202.94 211.42 -468.72 223.88

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

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Bechtle AG'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.


Bechtle AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Bechtle AG 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 $170 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.


Bechtle AG  (OTCPK:BECTY) 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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Bechtle AG (Bechtle AG) Business Description

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Bechtle AG is an information technology provider with operations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other European countries. The company's customers are mainly in the industrial, trade, financial, and public sectors. Bechtle operates through two segments: IT System House and Managed Services, and IT E-commerce. The IT System House and Managed Services segment consist of IT strategy consulting, hardware and software sales, project planning and roll-out, system integrations, IT services and training, and client management, among others. The IT E-commerce segment includes e-procurement services, software solutions, and product marketing through the Internet and telemarketing.

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