BST (BlackRock Science and Technology Trust) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $1.1 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2025)

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust  (NYSE:BST) 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.

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

The historical data trend for BlackRock Science and Technology Trust'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.

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Annual Data
	Trend	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19	Dec20	Dec21	Dec22	Dec23	Dec24	Dec25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial				0.65	1.15	0.87	0.75	1.08

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Semi-Annual Data
	Dec17	Jun18	Dec18	Jun19	Dec19	Jun20	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23	Jun24	Dec24	Jun25	Dec25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial												0.43	0.38	0.37	0.67	0.41

BST vs BDJ, BCAT, RQI: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Asset Management subindustry, BlackRock Science and Technology Trust'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.

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, BlackRock Science and Technology Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where BlackRock Science and Technology Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust 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. 2025 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.1 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.

BlackRock Science and Technology Trust Business Description