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LRCX (Lam Research) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $930 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Lam Research Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Lam Research's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $226 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $930 Mil.


Lam Research Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Lam Research Annual Data
Trend Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23 Jun24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 682.48 829.88 885.74 832.75 868.25

Lam Research Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 215.90 216.48 243.13 244.15 226.02

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

For the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials subindustry, Lam Research'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.


Lam Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Lam Research's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Lam Research 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $930 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.


Lam Research  (NAS:LRCX) 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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Lam Research Business Description

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Address
4650 Cushing Parkway, Fremont, CA, USA, 94538
Lam Research is one of the largest semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment manufacturers in the world. It specializes in deposition and etch, which entail the buildup of layers on a semiconductor and the subsequent selective removal of patterns from each layer. Lam holds the top market share in etch and holds the clear second share in deposition. It is more exposed to memory chipmakers for DRAM and NAND chips. It counts as top customers the largest chipmakers in the world, including TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Micron.
Executives
Seshasayee Varadarajan officer: Group Vice President LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION, 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
Bethany Mayer director C/O IXIA, 26601 W. AGOURA ROAD, CALABASAS CA 91302
Christina Corrreia officer: CVP , Chief Accounting Officer 4650 CUSHING PKWY, FREMONT CA 94538
Neil J Fernandes officer: Senior Vice President 4650 CUSHING PKWY, FREMONT CA 94538
Timothy Archer officer: Chief Operating Officer 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
Patrick J Lord officer: Group Vice President C/O LAM RESEARCH CORP, 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
Abhijit Y Talwalkar director ONE AMD PLACE, PO BOX 3453, SUNNYVALE CA 94088
Ava Hahn officer: Chief Legal Officer & SVP 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, C/O LAM RESEARCH, FREMONT CA 94538
John M. Dineen director MERRIMACK PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., ONE KENDALL SQUARE, SUITE B7201, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Douglas R Bettinger officer: EVP, Chief Financial Officer C/O LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION, 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
Vahid Vahedi officer: Group Vice President LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION, 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
Ho Kyu Kang director 4650 CUSHING PKWY, FREMONT CA 94538
Richard A Gottscho officer: Executive Vice President 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
Sohail U Ahmed director 4650 CUSHING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
Scott Gerald Meikle officer: Senior Vice President 1007 N. 17TH STREET, BOISE ID 83702