Versum Materials (Versum Materials) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $139 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2019)

Versum Materials Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Versum Materials Quarterly Data
	Sep13	Sep14	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17	Jun17	Sep17	Dec17	Mar18	Jun18	Sep18	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial														35.20	36.10	35.50	32.60	34.50

Competitive Comparison of Versum Materials's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Chemicals subindustry, Versum Materials's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

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Versum Materials's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Versum Materials's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Versum Materials 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 Jun. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $139 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.

Versum Materials  (NYSE:VSM) 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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