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Chorus (ASX:CNU) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$94.9 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Chorus's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$47.4 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$94.9 Mil.


Chorus Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Chorus Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 82.69 86.88 79.95 80.46 92.33

Chorus Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 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 33.20 48.82 46.14 47.53 47.41

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

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Chorus'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.


Chorus's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Chorus's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Chorus 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 semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$94.9 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.


Chorus  (ASX:CNU) 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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Chorus (ASX:CNU) Business Description

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1 Willis Street, Level 10, P.O. Box 632, Wellington, NTL, NZL
Chorus is New Zealand's largest fixed-line communications infrastructure entity, and was demerged in 2011 from Telecom New Zealand. Chorus offers wholesale access to its nationwide copper and fibre network to retail service providers. It also provides backhaul services to retail service providers and connects mobile phone towers. At the end of 2022, Chorus completed the government's rollout of ultra-fast broadband, or UFB, a fibre-to-the-premises network to cover 87% of the population in New Zealand.

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