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Party City Holdco (Party City Holdco) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $254 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2022)


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What is Party City Holdco Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Party City Holdco's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2022 was $179 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2022 was $254 Mil.


Party City Holdco Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Party City Holdco'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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Party City Holdco Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Party City Holdco Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 236.39 248.65 271.14 277.63 218.02

Party City Holdco Quarterly Data
Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22
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Competitive Comparison of Party City Holdco's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Party City Holdco'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.


Party City Holdco's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

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

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



Party City Holdco 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 Sep. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $254 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.


Party City Holdco  (OTCPK:PRTYQ) 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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Party City Holdco (Party City Holdco) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
80 Grasslands Road, Elmsford, NY, USA, 10523
Party City Holdco Inc is a party goods retailer in North America that operates owned and franchised locations in the us, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Party City also sells internationally in countries like the UK, France, Germany, and Australia, among others. The company has two primary reporting segments: retail and wholesale. The retail operations sell through Anagram, Amscan, Designware, Costumes USA, and other party suppliers, such as Party City, Halloween City, and PartyCity.com. The wholesale segment sells party goods such as paper and plastic tableware, accessories and novelties, balloons, stationery, and gift items for all occasions. These products are sold by franchise stores, mass merchants, independent card and gift shops, dollar stores, and other retailers and global distributors.
Executives
Clifford Sosin 10 percent owner 8 WRIGHT STREET, 1ST FL, WESTPORT CT 06880
John Capela officer: See Remarks 779 HIGHLAND AVENUE, PARAMUS NJ 07652
Peter Royer Smith officer: Chief Operations Officer 3438 PEACHTREE ROAD NE, SUITE 1800, ATLANTA GA 30326
De Mesa Graziano Cheryl officer: Chief Accounting Officer 80 GRASSLANDS ROAD, ELMSFORD NY 10523
Steven J Collins director 29 VINTON STREET, #5, BOSTON MA 02127
William S. Creekmuir director SIX CONCOURSE PARKWAY, SUITE 3300-A, ATLANTA GA 30328
John Frascotti director C/O HASBRO, INC. 1011 NEWPORT AVENUE, PAWTUCKET RI 02862
Shroff Michelle Millstone director C/O PARTY CITY HOLDCO INC., 80 GRASSLANDS ROAD, ELMSFORD NY 10523
James M Harrison director GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO., 85 BROAD ST, NEW YORK NY 10004
Reginald Rasch officer: See Remarks 80 GRASSLANDS ROAD, ELMSFORD NY 10523
Sean Thompson officer: See Remarks 80 GRASSLANDS ROAD, ELMSFORD NY 10523
Sarah Dodds-brown director 80 GRASSLANDS ROAD, ELMSFORD NY 10523
Jennifer Fleiss director 80 GRASSLANDS ROAD, ELMSFORD NY 10523
Joel Alsfine director 2905 PREMIERE PARKWAY, SUITE 300, DULUTH GA 30097
Norman S Matthews director 650 MADISON AVENUE, 23RD FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022

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