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Air Canada (TSX:AC) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$1,652 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Air Canada Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Air Canada's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was C$393 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was C$1,652 Mil.


Air Canada Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Air Canada Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,271.00 624.00 659.00 1,265.00 1,652.00

Air Canada Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 355.00 419.00 392.00 448.00 393.00

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

For the Airlines subindustry, Air Canada'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.


Air Canada's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Air Canada's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Air Canada 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 C$1,652 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.


Air Canada  (TSX:AC) 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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Air Canada (TSX:AC) Business Description

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7373 Cote Vertu Boulevard West, Air Canada Centre, Saint-Laurent, QC, CAN, H4S 1Z3
Air Canada is Canada's largest airline, generally serving nearly 50 million passengers each year together with its low-cost sub-brand called Rouge and contracts for regional connection flights to its network. Air Canada is a sixth freedom airline, similar to Gulf carriers, which flies many U.S. nationals on long-haul trips with a layover in Canada. In 2022, the company generated CAD 16.6 billion in total revenue, down from CAD 19 billion in 2019 as the airline is still recovering from the pandemic and related travel restrictions.