CVGW (Calavo Growers) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $46.9 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2025)

Calavo Growers Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Calavo Growers Annual Data
	Trend	Oct15	Oct16	Oct17	Oct18	Oct19	Oct20	Oct21	Oct22	Oct23	Oct24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					57.95	56.46	46.54	47.28	50.04

Calavo Growers Quarterly Data
	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24	Apr24	Jul24	Oct24	Jan25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															13.46	13.02	10.51	13.05	10.29

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

For the Food Distribution subindustry, Calavo Growers'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.

Calavo Growers's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

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

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

Calavo Growers 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $46.9 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.

Calavo Growers  (NAS:CVGW) 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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