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Children's Place (Children's Place) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $460 Mil (TTM As of Oct. 2023)


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What is Children's Place Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Children's Place's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Oct. 2023 was $105 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2023 was $460 Mil.


Children's Place Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Children's Place'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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Children's Place Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Children's Place Annual Data
Trend Jan14 Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 498.34 478.12 428.23 459.17 460.97

Children's Place Quarterly Data
Jan19 Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23
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 106.63 130.49 112.93 111.97 104.77

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

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, Children's Place'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.


Children's Place's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Children's Place's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Children's Place 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 Oct. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $460 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.


Children's Place  (NAS:PLCE) 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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Children's Place (Children's Place) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
500 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, NJ, USA, 07094
Children's Place Inc is pure-play children's specialty apparel retailer in North America. It design, contract to manufacture, sell at retail and wholesale, and license to sell, trend right, high quality merchandise predominantly at value prices, under proprietary The Children's Place, Place, Baby Place, Gymboree, Sugar & Jade, and PJ Place brand names.
Executives
Maegan Markee officer: BRAND PRESIDENT 500 PLAZA DRIVE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Alicia Enciso director 1721 VALLEY AVENUE, MCLEAN VA 22101
Jane T Elfers officer: President and CEO C/O THE CHILDRENS PLACE RETAIL STORES, 915 SECAUCUS ROAD, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Wesley S Mcdonald director
Michael A Shaffer director C/O PHILLIPS-VAN HEUSEN CORPORATION, 200 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10016
Sheamus Toal officer: SVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 450 W. 33RD STREET, 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10001
John E. Bachman director 77 EXETER STREET, 1809, BOSTON MA 02116
Joseph A Alutto director 810 CURLEYS COURT, COLUMBUS OH 43235
Jared Shure officer: SVP, GEN COUNSEL & SECRETARY 500 PLAZA DRIVE, THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Elizabeth J Boland director C/O BRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS, 2 WELLS AVENUE, NEWTON MA 02459
Deborah Derby officer: CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER TOYS R US INC, 225 SUMMIT AVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Katherine Kountze director 500 PLAZA DRIVE, C/O THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Michael D Rinaldo officer: CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER C/O TIFFANY & CO., 727 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10022
Leah Swan officer: CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER 500 PLAZA DRIVE, C/O THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, INC., SECAUCUS NJ 07094
Robert F Helm officer: SVP, FINANCE & INV MGMT (CAO) 500 PLAZA DRIVE, THE CHILDREN'S PLACE, SECAUCUS NJ 07094