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PBI (Pitney Bowes) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $726 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Pitney Bowes Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Pitney Bowes's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $168 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $726 Mil.


Pitney Bowes Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Pitney Bowes Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 963.32 924.16 785.55 781.61 717.89

Pitney Bowes Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 186.45 219.63 189.99 148.27 167.77

Competitive Comparison of Pitney Bowes's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Pitney Bowes'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.


Pitney Bowes's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Pitney Bowes's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Pitney Bowes 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $726 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.


Pitney Bowes  (NYSE:PBI) 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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Pitney Bowes Business Description

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Address
3001 Summer Street, Stamford, CT, USA, 06926
Pitney Bowes Inc is a technology-driven company that provides SaaS shipping solutions, mailing innovation, and financial services to clients around the globe. The company's reportable segments are SendTech Solutions and Presort Services. SendTech Solutions includes the revenue and related expenses from physical and digital mailing and shipping technology solutions, financing, services, supplies and other applications to help simplify and save on the sending, tracking and receiving of letters, parcels and flats. Presort Services includes the revenue and related expenses from sortation services to qualify large volumes of First Class Mail, Marketing Mail and Marketing Mail Flats/Bound Printed Matter for postal worksharing discounts. It derives maximum revenue from SendTech Solutions.
Executives
Kurt James Wolf director 175 BRICKYARD ROAD, ADAMS TOWNSHIP PA 16046
James Arthur Fairweather officer: EVP & Chief Innovation Officer 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Deborah Pfeiffer officer: President, Presort Services 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Christopher Johnson officer: SVP & President, GFS 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Andrew Robert Gold officer: SVP, Chief HR Officer 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Joseph Schmitt officer: SVP, Chief Information Officer 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Shemin Nurmohamed officer: President, SendTech Solutions 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
Todd A. Everett director 2700 VIA FORTUNA, SUITE 300, AUSTIN TX 78746
Milena Alberti-perez director 8500 SW CREEKSIDE PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97008
Katie May director 1990 E. GRAND AVE., EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Steven Brill director 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926
James Darrell Thomas director 3700 JUNEAU AVENUE, MILWAUKEE WI 53208
Sheila A Stamps director C/O CIT GROUP, 1 CIT DRIVE, ATTN: GENERAL COUNSEL, LIVINGSTON NJ 07039
Mary Guilfoile director 227 WASHINGTON STREET STE.200, CONSHOHOCKEN PA 19428
Daniel J Goldstein officer: EVP/Chief Legal & Compliance 1 ELMCROFT ROAD, STAMFORD CT 06926