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Carnival Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: $2,529 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 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. Carnival's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Feb. 2020 was $678 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2020 was $2,529 Mil.

Carnival Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are in their local exchange's currency.

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Carnival Annual Data
Nov10 Nov11 Nov12 Nov13 Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2,067.00 2,197.00 2,265.00 2,450.00 2,480.00

Carnival Quarterly Data
May15 Aug15 Nov15 Feb16 May16 Aug16 Nov16 Feb17 May17 Aug17 Nov17 Feb18 May18 Aug18 Nov18 Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20
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 629.00 621.00 563.00 667.00 678.00
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.

Carnival Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

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


Carnival 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. 2020 was 621 (May. 2019 ) + 563 (Aug. 2019 ) + 667 (Nov. 2019 ) + 678 (Feb. 2020 ) = $2,529 Mil.

* All numbers are in millions except for per share data and ratio. All numbers are in their local exchange's currency.

Carnival  (NYSE:CCL) 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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