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PLAB (Photronics) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $77.6 Mil (TTM As of Apr. 2025)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Photronics's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was $18.1 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2025 was $77.6 Mil.


Photronics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Photronics Annual Data
Trend Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Photronics Quarterly Data
Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25 Apr25
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Competitive Comparison of Photronics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials subindustry, Photronics'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.


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

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

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Photronics 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 Apr. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $77.6 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.


Photronics  (NAS:PLAB) 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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Photronics Business Description

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Address
15 Secor Road, Brookfield, CT, USA, 06804
Photronics Inc is a U.S.-based company that is principally engaged in manufacturing photomasks. The photomasks are photographic quartz or glass plates that contain microscopic images of electronic circuits that are used as a component in the manufacture of integrated circuits and flat-panel displays. The revenue from products designed for integrated circuits production accounts for the majority of total revenue, with the rest derived from products for flat-panel display production. The company's assets are located in Taiwan, Korea, and the United States. It generates revenue world-wide, including in the United States, Europe, Taiwan, Korea, China, and elsewhere in Asia, with Taiwan contributing the majority of total revenue.
Executives
Walter M Fiederowicz director 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Kang Jyh Lee officer: President, Asia IC Photomask 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Christopher J Progler officer: VP,Chief Technology Officer 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Adam M Lewis director 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Mitchell G Tyson director 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Peter S Kirlin officer: Senior VP, U.S. & Europe 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Richelle E Burr officer: VP, General Counsel & Secy 15 SECOR RD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
John P Jordan officer: SVP & Chief Financial Officer 600 EAST GREENWICH AVENUE, WEST WARWICK RI 02893
Daniel Jl Liao director 2045 EAST INNOVATION CIRCLE, TEMPE AZ 85284
Fiorita Joseph A Jr director 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Mary Paladino director 15 SECOR ROAD, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
George Macricostas director 15 SECOR ROAD, PO BOX 5226, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Macricostas Constantine S director 15 SECOR ROAD, P.O. BOX 5226, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Sean T Smith officer: VP and Chief Financial Officer 15 SECOR ROAD, PO BOX 5226, BROOKFIELD CT 06804
Liang Choo Hsia director 15 SECOR RD., BROOKFIELD CT 06804