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PINS (Pinterest) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1,502 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Pinterest's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $360 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $1,502 Mil.


Pinterest Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Pinterest Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 779.61 942.26 1,276.67 1,423.57 1,475.43

Pinterest 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 333.03 377.43 390.16 374.81 359.53

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

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Pinterest'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.


Pinterest's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Pinterest's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Pinterest 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 $1,502 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.


Pinterest  (NYSE:PINS) 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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Pinterest Business Description

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Address
651 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94107
Pinterest is a social media platform with a focus on product and idea discovery. Pinterest users, or pinners, can leverage the platform as they go about gathering ideas on topics such as home improvement, fashion, cooking, and travel. The company has more than 500 million monthly active users, two thirds of whom are female. Pinterest generates revenue by selling digital ads on its platform. While the platform's user base spans the globe, the vast majority of its revenue stems from ads shown to North American users.
Executives
Benjamin Silbermann director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman, President, CEO, Co-F 505 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Andrea Acosta officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL INC., 770 LINDARO ST, SAN RAFAEL CA 94901
Gokul Rajaram director 301 CONGRESS AVENUE, SUITE 700, AUSTIN TX 78701
Wanjiku Juanita Walcott officer: Chief Legal Officer 2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Donnelly Julia Brau officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O PINTEREST, INC., 651 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Jeremy S. Levine director C/O BESSEMER VENTURE PARTNERS, 1865 PALMER AVENUE, LARCHMONT NY 10538
Sabrina Ellis officer: Chief Product Officer 651 BRANNAN ST., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Evan Sharp director, officer: Co-Founder & Chief Design & Cr 505 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Jeffrey D Jordan director 2865 SAND HILL ROAD #101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Christine Deputy officer: Chief People Officer 130 ROYALL STREET, CANTON MA 02021
Naveen Gavini officer: SVP, Products 505 BRANNAN ST., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Scott F. Schenkel director C/O EBAY INC., 2025 HAMILTON AVE., SAN JOSE CA 95125
Todd R Morgenfeld officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O PINTEREST, INC., 651 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Malik Ducard officer: Chief Content Officer 651 BRANNAN ST., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Marc Steinberg director 600 STEAMBOAT ROAD, 3RD FLOOR, GREENWICH CT 06830