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Quebecor (Quebecor) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $561 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Quebecor's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $148 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $561 Mil.


Quebecor Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Quebecor 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 532.16 496.14 535.16 512.99 563.13

Quebecor Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 133.68 128.99 149.41 134.73 147.73

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

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Quebecor'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.


Quebecor's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Quebecor's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Quebecor 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $561 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.


Quebecor  (OTCPK:QBCAF) 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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Quebecor (Quebecor) Business Description

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612, rue Saint-Jacques, Corporate secretariat, 18th floor, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3C 4M8
Quebecor primarily provides telecom services in Quebec, where it has roughly 1.7 million internet subscribers—equating to a penetration rate of about 50% in its footprint—and over 3 million mobile subscribers, including more than 20% wireless market share in Quebec. With the acquisition of Freedom Mobile in April 2023, Quebecor also has more than 1.5 million mobile subscribers in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. Quebecor also offers a French-language subscription video on demand service and has a media segment that owns and operates television stations, publishes newspapers and magazines, and produces and distributes films and television shows. A very small portion of Quebecor's business engages in live event production and promotion and has ownership of live-event venues.