Allbanc Split (TSX:ABK.PR.C.PFD) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

Allbanc Split Annual Data
	Trend	Feb08	Feb09	Feb10	Feb11	Feb12	Feb13	Feb14	Feb15	Feb16	Feb17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense							0.30	0.42	0.44	0.34	0.32

Allbanc Split Semi-Annual Data
	Feb08	Aug08	Feb09	Aug09	Feb10	Aug10	Feb11	Aug11	Feb12	Aug12	Feb13	Aug13	Feb14	Aug14	Feb15	Aug15	Feb16	Aug16	Feb17	Aug17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense																0.17	0.17	0.16	0.16	0.17

For the Asset Management subindustry, Allbanc Split'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.

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Allbanc Split's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

Allbanc Split 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 Aug. 2017 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$0.33 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.

Allbanc Split  (TSX:ABK.PR.C.PFD) 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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