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Kingsway Financial Services (Kingsway Financial Services) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $42.2 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Kingsway Financial Services Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Kingsway Financial Services's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $11.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $42.2 Mil.


Kingsway Financial Services Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Kingsway Financial Services'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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Kingsway Financial Services Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Kingsway Financial Services Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Kingsway Financial Services Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Kingsway Financial Services's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Auto & Truck Dealerships subindustry, Kingsway Financial Services'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.


Kingsway Financial Services's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry

For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Kingsway Financial Services's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Kingsway Financial Services's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Kingsway Financial Services 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 $42.2 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.


Kingsway Financial Services  (NYSE:KFS) 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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Kingsway Financial Services (Kingsway Financial Services) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
10 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 1520, Chicago, IL, USA, 60606
Kingsway Financial Services Inc through subsidiaries operates in the extended warranty, asset management, and real estate industries in the United States. It operates through three segments: Extended Warranty and Kingsway Search Xcelerator. The Extended Warranty segment provides after-market vehicle protection services distributed by credit unions. The firm generates maximum revenue from Extended Warranty segment in the form of Service fee and commission income.
Executives
Fitzgerald John Taylor Maloney director, officer: Executive Vice President KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES INC., 150 PIERCE ROAD, SUITE 600, ITASCA IL 60143
Kent A Hansen officer: CFO & EVP C/O KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES INC., 150 PIERCE ROAD, SUITE 600, ITASCA IL 60143
Charles L Frischer director 3156 EAST LAURELHURST DRIVE, NE, SEATTLE WA 98105
Oakmont Capital Inc 10 percent owner 112 ST.CLAIR AVENUE WEST, SUITE 400, ONTARIO Z4 M4V 2Y3
Gregory Paul Hannon director OAKMONT CAPITAL INC., 45 ST. CLAIR AVENUE WEST, SUITE 400, TORONTO A6 M4V 1K9
Terence Michael Kavanagh director OAKMONT CAPITAL INC., 45 ST. CLAIR AVENUE WEST, SUITE 400, TORONTO A6 M4V 1K9
Joseph Stilwell director, 10 percent owner 111 BROADWAY, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10006
Paul R. Hogan officer: Secretary and General Counsel 150 PIERCE ROAD, SUITE 600, ITASCA IL 60143
Porcelli Corissa B. director 150 PIERCE ROAD, SUITE 600, ITASCA IL 60143
Stilwell Associates L P 10 percent owner 111 BROADWAY, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10006
Stilwell Activist Investments, L.p. 10 percent owner 111 BROADWAY, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10006
Stilwell Activist Fund, L.p. 10 percent owner 111 BROADWAY, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10006
Stilwell Value Partners Vii, L.p. 10 percent owner 111 BROADWAY, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10006
Hickey William August Jr officer: Executive VP, COO and CFO KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., 150 PIERCE ROAD, SUITE 600, ITASCA IL 60143
Douglas Levine director 2602 NW 5TH AVENUE, MIAMI FL 33127