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Netflix (NFLX) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $4,754 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2025)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Netflix's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2025 was $1,154 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2025 was $4,754 Mil.


Netflix Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Netflix Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3,304.85 3,896.77 4,103.39 4,378.17 4,619.59

Netflix Quarterly Data
Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25 Jun25
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 1,071.08 1,060.28 1,429.88 1,109.83 1,154.48

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

For the Entertainment subindustry, Netflix'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.


Netflix's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Netflix's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Netflix 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4,754 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.


Netflix  (NAS:NFLX) 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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Netflix Business Description

Address
121 Albright Way, Los Gatos, CA, USA, 95032
Netflix's relatively simple business model involves only one business, its streaming service. It has the biggest television entertainment subscriber base in both the United States and the collective international market, with more than 300 million subscribers globally. Netflix has exposure to nearly the entire global population outside of China. The firm has traditionally avoided a regular slate of live programming or sports content, instead focusing on on-demand access to episodic television, movies, and documentaries. The firm introduced ad-supported subscription plans in 2022, giving the firm exposure to the advertising market in addition to the subscription fees that have historically accounted for nearly all its revenue.
Executives
Jeffrey William Karbowski officer: Chief Accounting Officer 121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
Leslie J Kilgore director 121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
Strive Masiyiwa director 265 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON MA 02110
Bradford L Smith director MICROSOFT CORPORATION, ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND WA 98052-6399
Ann Mather director
Theodore A Sarandos officer: Chief Content Officer C/O NETFLIX, INC, 121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
Spencer Adam Neumann officer: Chief Financial Officer SIERRA INCOME CORPORATION, 375 PARK AVE., SUITE 3304, NEW YORK NY 10152
Gregory K Peters officer: Intl. Development Officer C/O NETFLIX, INC., 121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
David A Hyman officer: General Counsel C/O NETFLIX, INC., 121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
Reed Hastings director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO, other: CEO 121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
Mathias Dopfner director C/O TIME WARNER INC., ONE TIME WARNER CENTER, NEW YORK NY 10019
Jay C Hoag director 250 MIDDLEFIELD ROAD, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Richard N Barton director C/O IAC, 152 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Anne M Sweeney director C/O 121 ALBRIGHT WAY, LOS GATOS CA 95032
Timothy M Haley director 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, 2-290, MENLO PARK CA 94025