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Four Seasons Education (Cayman) (Four Seasons Education (Cayman)) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $6.64 Mil (TTM As of Aug. 2023)


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What is Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Aug. 2023 was $3.56 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2023 was $6.64 Mil.


Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'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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Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Annual Data
Trend Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 24.07 24.72 22.90 16.92 7.31

Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Semi-Annual Data
Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23
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 10.92 5.77 4.25 3.08 3.56

Competitive Comparison of Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'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.


Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Four Seasons Education (Cayman) 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 Aug. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $6.64 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.


Four Seasons Education (Cayman)  (NYSE:FEDU) 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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Four Seasons Education (Cayman) (Four Seasons Education (Cayman)) Business Description

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309 Yuyuan Road, Room 1301, Zi'an Building, Jing'an District, Shanghai, CHN, 200040
Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Inc is engaged in the provision of after-school education services for kindergarten, elementary and middle school students. The company is a comprehensive educational enterprise that provides research practice services, educational informatization equipment, high-quality educational resources, and teacher training, as well as a digital publishing business, and continues to expand in educational research and educational informatization.