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Smart Employee Benefits (TSXV:SEB) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$22.13 Mil (TTM As of Aug. 2022)


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What is Smart Employee Benefits Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Smart Employee Benefits's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Aug. 2022 was C$5.44 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2022 was C$22.13 Mil.


Smart Employee Benefits Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Smart Employee Benefits'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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Smart Employee Benefits Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Smart Employee Benefits Annual Data
Trend Nov12 Nov13 Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19 Nov20 Nov21
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Smart Employee Benefits Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Smart Employee Benefits's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Smart Employee Benefits'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.


Smart Employee Benefits's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Smart Employee Benefits's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Smart Employee Benefits 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. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$22.13 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.


Smart Employee Benefits  (TSXV:SEB) 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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Smart Employee Benefits (TSXV:SEB) Business Description

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5500 Explorer Drive, 4th Floor, Mississauga, ON, CAN, L4W 5C7
Smart Employee Benefits Inc is a Canadian technology company providing software-enabled services in the areas of healthcare transaction processing, software solutions, and professional services for corporate and government clients. The company's business segments are Benefits and Technology. Its Benefits segment provides software, solutions, services, and products focused on managing group benefit and wellness solutions and healthcare claims processing environments for corporate and government clients. The Technology segment provides solutions in the areas of supply change management, integration, and energy, as well as training and resource provisioning. It earns most of its revenue from the Technology segment.

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