PayPal Holdings (NAS:PYPL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

: $3,887 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)

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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. PayPal Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was $949 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $3,887 Mil.

PayPal Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for PayPal Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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PayPal Holdings Annual Data

Trend

Dec13

Dec14

Dec15

Dec16

Dec17

Dec18

Dec19

Dec20

Dec21

Dec22

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

2,855.00

3,112.00

3,931.00

4,559.00

4,356.00

PayPal Holdings Quarterly Data
	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense																1,007.00	1,039.00	943.00	956.00	949.00

Competitive Comparison

For the Credit Services subindustry, PayPal Holdings'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.

PayPal Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution

For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, PayPal Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

PayPal Holdings 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3,887 Mil.

PayPal Holdings (NAS:PYPL) 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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PayPal Holdings (NAS:PYPL) Business Description

Industry

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Comparable Companies

Traded in Other Exchanges

PYPL:Peru PYPL:Mexico PYPL_KZ:Kazakhstan 2PPd:UK 0R9U:UK 2PP:Germany PYPL:Canada PYPL34:Brazil PYPL:Austria PYPL:Argentina

Address

2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA, USA, 95131

Website

https://www.paypal.com

PayPal was spun off from eBay in 2015 and provides electronic payment solutions to merchants and consumers, with a focus on online transactions. The company had 435 million active accounts at the end of 2022. The company also owns Venmo, a person-to-person payment platform.

Executives

James Alexander Chriss	director, officer: President and CEO	C/O INTUIT INC., 2700 COAST AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
John C. Kim	officer: EVP, Chief Product Officer	C/O OWLET, INC., 2500 EXECUTIVE PARKWAY, SUITE 500, LEHI UT 84043
Gabrielle Scheibe	officer: See Remarks	2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Blake J Jorgensen	officer: EVP, Chief Financial Officer	209 REDWOOD SHORES PARKWAY, REDWOOD CITY CA 94065
Enrique Lores	director	3000 HANOVER STREET, PALO ALTO CA 94304
Jeffrey William Karbowski	officer: VP, Chief Accounting Officer	121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
Peggy Alford	officer: EVP, Global Sales	435 TASSO STREET, PALO ALTO CA 94301
John D Rainey	officer: CFO and EVP, Global Cust Oper	C/O PAYPAL HOLDINGS, INC., 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Allison Johnson	officer: EVP, Chief Marketing Officer	C/O PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC, 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Mark Britto	officer: EVP, Global Sales and Credit	C/O PAYPAL HOLDINGS, INC., 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Deborah M. Messemer	director	C/O ALLOGENE THERAPEUTICS, INC., 210 EAST GRAND AVENUE, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Rodney C Adkins	director	55 GLENLAKE PARKWAY, NE, ATLANTA GA 30328
Ann Sarnoff	director	C/O HSN, INC., 1 HSN DRIVE, SAINT PETERSBURG FL 33729
Aaron Karczmer	officer: SVP, CR & Compliance Officer	PAYPAL HOLDINGS, INC., 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Belinda J. Johnson	director	394 PACIFIC AVENUE, FLOOR 2, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111