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Blackstone (Blackstone) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1,288 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Blackstone's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $374 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $1,288 Mil.


Blackstone Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Blackstone 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 697.15 724.65 928.22 1,123.35 1,236.29

Blackstone 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 321.79 306.62 318.12 289.76 373.90

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

For the Asset Management subindustry, Blackstone'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.


Blackstone's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Blackstone's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Blackstone 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 $1,288 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.


Blackstone  (NYSE:BX) 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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Blackstone (Blackstone) Business Description

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Address
345 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10154
Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset managers with $1.001 trillion in total asset under management, including $731.1 billion in fee-earning asset under management, at the end of June 2023. The company has four core business segments: private equity (23% of fee-earning AUM and 27% of base management fees); real estate (39% and 44%); credit & insurance (28% and 21%); and hedge fund solutions (10% and 8%). While the firm primarily serves institutional investors (87% of AUM), it also caters to clients in the high-net-worth channel (13%). Blackstone operates through 25 offices located in the Americas (8), Europe and the Middle East (9), and the Asia-Pacific region (8).
Executives
David Payne officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O THE BLACKSTONE GROUP INC., 345 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10154
Ruth Porat director C/O GOOGLE INC., 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PRKW, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
John G Finley officer: Chief Legal Officer C/O THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, 345 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10154
Joseph Baratta director C/O THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, 345 PARK AVE., NEW YORK NY 10154
Reginald J Brown director C/O THE BLACKSTONE GROUP INC., 345 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10154
William G Parrett director THE BLACKSTONE GROUP L.P., 345 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10154
James Breyer director ACCEL PARTNERS, 428 UNIVERSITY AVE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Hamilton E James director, officer: President and COO JEFFERSON RIVER CAPITAL, 499 PARK AVENUE, 27TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Jonathan Gray director C/O THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, 345 PARK AVE. 31ST FL., NEW YORK NY 10154
Joan Solotar officer: SMD - Public Market Activities THE BLACKSTONE GROUP L.P.,, 345 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10154
Christopher Striano officer: Principal Accounting Officer C/O THE BLACKSTONE GROUP L.P., 345 PARK AVE., NEW YORK NY 10154
John A. Hood director C/O THE BLACKSTONE GROUP L.P., 345 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10154
Kelly Ayotte director C/O NEWS CORPORATION, 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Bennett J Goodman director C/O GSO CAPITAL PARTNERS LP, 345 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10154
J Tomilson Hill director, officer: Vice Chairman