Morgan Stanley (MEX:MS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: MXN467,746 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2023)

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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Morgan Stanley's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2023 was MXN119,992 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2023 was MXN467,746 Mil.

Morgan Stanley Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Morgan Stanley's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Morgan Stanley Annual Data

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Dec22

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

359,772.11

364,469.50

420,457.20

516,316.87

466,285.83

Morgan Stanley Quarterly Data
	Jun18	Sep18	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense																128,406.04	116,080.86	117,250.34	114,422.02	119,992.43

Competitive Comparison

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Morgan Stanley'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.

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Morgan Stanley Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

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

* The bar in red indicates where Morgan Stanley's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Selling, General, & Admin. Expense's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.

Morgan Stanley 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was MXN467,746 Mil.

Morgan Stanley (MEX:MS) 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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https://www.morganstanley.com

Morgan Stanley is a global investment bank whose history, through its legacy firms, can be traced back to 1924. The company has institutional securities, wealth management, and investment management segments. The company had about $5 trillion of client assets as well as over 70,000 employees at the end of 2021. Approximately 50% of the company's net revenue is from its institutional securities business, with the remainder coming from wealth and investment management. The company derives about 30% of its total revenue outside the Americas.