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Seylan Bank (COL:SEYB.N0000) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : රු0 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Seylan Bank Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Seylan Bank's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was රු0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was රු0 Mil.


Seylan Bank Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

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

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Seylan Bank'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.


Seylan Bank's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Seylan Bank's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Seylan Bank 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 Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was රු0 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.


Seylan Bank  (COL:SEYB.N0000) 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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Seylan Bank Business Description

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No. 90, Galle Road, Seylan Towers, Colombo, LKA, 03
Seylan Bank PLC is engaged in providing banking and other financial services. The company's operating segments are Banking, Treasury, and Property/ Investment. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Banking segment, which is involved in offering various banking and financial products and services such as loans and advances, margin trading, insurance, deposits, and other transactions and balances with corporate, small-to-medium enterprises, and retail customers. The Treasury segment is responsible for managing the bank's assets and liabilities, statutory reserve requirement, liquidity, foreign exchange position, and investment portfolios, and the Property/Investment segment represents property investment income. Geographically, the company operates in Sri Lanka.

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