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Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Shapeways Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was ARS3,320 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was ARS10,771 Mil.
Shapeways Holdings (BUE:SHPW) 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.
Shapeways Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms
Shapeways Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
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The historical data trend for Shapeways Holdings'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.
Shapeways Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
BUE:SHPW vs : Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison
For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Shapeways Holdings'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.
Shapeways Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Shapeways Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Shapeways Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Shapeways Holdings 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 ARS10,771 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.
What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ARS10,771 Mil mean?
Shapeways Holdings (BUE:SHPW) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ARS10,771 Mil as of Dec. 2023. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Shapeways Holdings and its competitors.
Is Shapeways Holdings' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Shapeways Holdings' current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ARS10,771 Mil. Overall, Shapeways Holdings has a GF Score™ of 21/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Shapeways Holdings' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to ?
Shapeways Holdings' Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ARS10,771 Mil can be compared against companies in the Industrial Products industry. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for an Industrial Products company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Industrial Products industry context. However, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense mean?
A high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Shapeways Holdings and its competitors. Shapeways Holdings's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ARS10,771 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Shapeways Holdings stock overvalued right now?
Shapeways Holdings (BUE:SHPW) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of ARS10,771 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ARS10,771 Mil. Shapeways Holdings' overall GF Score™ is 21/100. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Selling, General, & Admin. Expense calculated?
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is calculated from a company's financial statements. For Shapeways Holdings (BUE:SHPW), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is ARS10,771 Mil as of Dec. 2023. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.
Shapeways Holdings Inc is a leading digital manufacturer combining high quality, flexible on-demand manufacturing with purpose-built proprietary software to offer customers an end-to-end digital manufacturing platform on which they can rapidly transform digital designs into physical products. It makes industrial-grade additive manufacturing accessible by fully digitizing the end-to-end manufacturing process. The Company reports in one segment, which focuses on providing additive manufacturing services to customers.
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