WageWorks (WageWorks) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $182.8 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2019)

WageWorks Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

WageWorks Annual Data
	Trend	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11	Dec12	Dec13	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16	Dec17	Dec18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					87.82	104.63	117.41	136.26	174.67

WageWorks Quarterly Data
	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17	Jun17	Sep17	Dec17	Mar18	Jun18	Sep18	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															37.42	47.60	46.06	46.24	42.94

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

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, WageWorks'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.

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

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

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

WageWorks 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 Jun. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $182.8 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.

WageWorks  (NYSE:WAGE) 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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