GURUFOCUS.COM » STOCK LIST » Industrials » Transportation » Ardmore Shipping Corp (NYSE:ASC) » Definitions » Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

Ardmore Shipping (Ardmore Shipping) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $25.2 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


View and export this data going back to 2013. Start your Free Trial

What is Ardmore Shipping Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Ardmore Shipping's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $7.0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $25.2 Mil.


Ardmore Shipping Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ardmore Shipping'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.

* Premium members only.

Ardmore Shipping Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Ardmore Shipping 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 18.15 17.90 19.20 24.11 25.24

Ardmore Shipping 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 6.66 6.23 5.81 6.17 7.03

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

For the Marine Shipping subindustry, Ardmore Shipping'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.


Ardmore Shipping's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

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

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



Ardmore Shipping 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 $25.2 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.


Ardmore Shipping  (NYSE:ASC) 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.


Ardmore Shipping Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Ardmore Shipping's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.


Ardmore Shipping (Ardmore Shipping) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
69 Pitts Bay Road, Belvedere Building, Ground Floor, Pembroke, Hamilton, BMU, HM08
Ardmore Shipping Corp owns and operates a fleet of mid-size product and chemical tankers, which provide seaborne transportation of petroleum products and chemicals across the globe. The company is focused on fuel efficiency and cost leadership, and it provides its shipping services to customers through voyage charters, commercial pools, and time charters. Its main customers are oil majors, national oil companies, oil and chemical traders, and chemical companies.