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Telesat (Telesat) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $87.5 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Telesat's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $21.7 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $87.5 Mil.


Telesat Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Telesat Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
66.78 70.17 121.96 112.00 87.89

Telesat Quarterly Data
Dec19 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 26.64 21.91 23.92 19.97 21.73

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Telesat'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.


Telesat's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Telesat's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Telesat 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $87.5 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.


Telesat  (NAS:TSAT) 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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Telesat (Telesat) Business Description

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Address
160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON, CAN, K2P 2P7
Telesat Corp is a global satellite operator, providing its customers with mission-critical communications services. The company's segment includes Broadcast; Enterprise and Consulting and other. The Broadcast segment includes Direct-to-home television, video distribution and contribution, and occasional use services. The enterprise segment includes telecommunication carriers and integrators, government, consumer broadband, resource, maritime and aeronautical, retail and satellite operator services. Consulting and other segments include Consulting services related to space and earth segments, government studies, satellite control services, and research and development. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from Canada.
Executives
Mario J Gabelli 10 percent owner 191 MASON STREET, GREENWICH CT 06830
Gamco Investors, Inc. Et Al 10 percent owner 191 MASON STREET, GREENWICH CT 06830
Ggcp, Inc. 10 percent owner 189 MASON STREET, GREENWICH CT 06830
Associated Capital Group, Inc. 10 percent owner 191 MASON STREET, GREENWICH CT 06830

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