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Meritage Homes (Meritage Homes) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: $617 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 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. Meritage Homes's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $176 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $617 Mil.


Meritage Homes Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Meritage Homes'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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Array ( [0] => - [1] => - [2] => - [3] => - [4] => - [5] => 392.82 [6] => 446.92 [7] => 466.85 [8] => 516.25 [9] => 616.63 )
Meritage Homes Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 392.82 446.92 466.85 516.25 616.63

Meritage Homes 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 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 167.07 130.37 147.94 162.21 176.12

Competitive Comparison

For the Residential Construction subindustry, Meritage Homes'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.


Meritage Homes Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

For the Homebuilding & Construction industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Meritage Homes's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Meritage Homes 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 $617 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.


Meritage Homes  (NYSE:MTH) 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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Meritage Homes (Meritage Homes) Business Description

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Address
8800 East Raintree Drive, Suite 300, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, 85260
Meritage Homes Corp is engaged as a designer and builder of single-family attached and detached homes. It has operations in three regions: West, Central, and East, which are comprised of ten states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. The company operates with two principal business segments; homebuilding and financial services. The homebuilding segments are engaged in the business of acquiring and developing land, constructing homes, marketing and selling those homes and providing warranty and customer services and the financial services segment offer title and escrow, mortgage, and insurance services. The company generates key revenue from the homebuilding segment.
Executives
Phillippe Lord officer: EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT 8800 EAST RAINTREE DRIVE, SUITE 300, SCOTTSDALE AZ 85260
Peter L Ax director
Alison Sasser officer: SVP - Chief Accounting Officer 8800 E RAINTREE DRIVE, SUITE 300, SCOTTSDALE AZ 85260
Hilla Sferruzza officer: Chief Accounting Officer 8800 EAST RAINTREE DRIVE, SUITE 300, SCOTTSDALE AZ 85260
Javier Feliciano officer: EVP Chief Human Resources Off 8800 EAST RAINTREE DRIVE, SUITE 300, SCOTTSDALE AZ 85260
Dennis V Arriola director 162 CANCO ROAD, PORTLAND ME 04103
R. Odell Michael director 3111 WEST ALLEGHENY AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA PA 19130
Gerald W Haddock director C/O ENSCO, 5847 SAN FELIPE, HOUSTON TX 77057
Raymond Oppel director
Steven J Hilton officer: Chief Executive Officer 6613 N SCOTTSDALE RD, SCOTTSDALE AZ 85250
Clinton Szubinski officer: EVP - Chief Operating Officer 8800 E RAINTREE DRIVE, SCOTTSDALE AZ 85260
Malissia Clinton officer: EVP - Gen. Counsel, Secretary 333 THREE D SYSTEMS CIRCLE, ROCK HILL SC 29730
Louis E Caldera director C/O BELO CORP, PO BOX 655237, DALLAS TX 75265-5237
C Timothy White officer: EVP - Gen. Counsel, Secretary
Dana Bradford director BALLANTYNE OF OMAHA INC, 4350 MCKINLEY STREET, OMAHA NE 68112