JEF (Jefferies Financial Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $975 Mil (TTM As of May. 2025)

Jefferies Financial Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Jefferies Financial Group Annual Data
	Trend	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16	Dec17	Nov19	Nov20	Nov21	Nov22	Nov23	Nov24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1,078.96	710.15	792.99	849.53	961.47

Jefferies Financial Group Quarterly Data
	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24	May24	Aug24	Nov24	Feb25	May25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															240.06	231.66	246.24	242.14	254.68

Competitive Comparison of Jefferies Financial Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Jefferies Financial Group'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.

Jefferies Financial Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, Jefferies Financial Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Jefferies Financial Group 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 May. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $975 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.

Jefferies Financial Group  (NYSE:JEF) 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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