David Jones (ASX:DJS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$394 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2014)

David Jones Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

David Jones Annual Data
	Trend	Jul04	Jul05	Jul06	Jul07	Jul08	Jul09	Jul10	Jul11	Jul12	Jul13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					443.76	411.83	366.13	372.07	380.57

David Jones Semi-Annual Data
	Jul04	Jan05	Jul05	Jan06	Jul06	Jan07	Jul07	Jan08	Jul08	Jan09	Jul09	Jan10	Jul10	Jan11	Jul11	Jan12	Jul12	Jan13	Jul13	Jan14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															160.65	211.42	184.13	196.44	197.07

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

For the Department Stores subindustry, David Jones'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.

David Jones's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, David Jones's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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David Jones 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 Jan. 2014 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$394 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.

David Jones  (ASX:DJS) 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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