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Monitronics International (Monitronics International) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $149.3 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2020)


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What is Monitronics International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Monitronics International's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2020 was $40.7 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2020 was $149.3 Mil.


Monitronics International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Monitronics International Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 114.15 155.90 118.94 - 149.31

Monitronics International Quarterly Data
Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20
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 - 44.45 32.54 31.57 40.75

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

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, Monitronics International'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.


Monitronics International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Monitronics International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Monitronics International 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 Dec. 2020 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $149.3 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.


Monitronics International  (OTCPK:SCTYQ) 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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Monitronics International (Monitronics International) Business Description

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Address
1990 Wittington Place, Farmers Branch, TX, USA, 75234
Monitronics International Inc provides residential customers and commercial client accounts with monitored home and business security systems, as well as interactive and home automation services, in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Its reportable segment is Brinks Home Security. The revenue source of the company includes alarm monitoring revenue; product, installation and service revenue; and other revenue, of which key revenue is derived from the alarm monitoring service.

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