EFT (Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $0.72 Mil (TTM As of Nov. 2025)

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EFT Eaton Vance Floating-rate Income Trust EFT
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What is Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust EFT -0.46% 22 Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.72 Mil as of Nov. 2025. GuruFocus rates EFT with a GF Score™ of 22/100. The stock has 5 warning signs investors should review.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Nov. 2025 was $0.33 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2025 was $0.72 Mil.


Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust  (NYSE:EFT) 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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Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Eaton Vance Floating-rateome 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.

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Annual Data
Trend May18 May19 May20 May21 May22 May23 May24 May25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.91 0.59 0.54 0.80 0.72

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Semi-Annual Data
Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19 May20 Nov20 May21 Nov21 May22 Nov22 May23 Nov23 May24 Nov24 May25 Nov25
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EFT vs DBL, BRW, ACV: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Asset Management subindustry, Eaton Vance Floating-rateome 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.


Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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Eaton Vance Floating-rateome 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 Nov. 2025 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.72 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 $0.72 Mil mean?
Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust (EFT) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $0.72 Mil as of Nov. 2025. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust and its competitors.
Is Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.72 Mil. Overall, Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust has a GF Score™ of 22/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to DBL and BRW?
Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $0.72 Mil can be compared against companies in the Asset Management 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 Asset Management company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Asset Management 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 Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust and its competitors. Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.72 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust stock overvalued right now?
Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust (EFT) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $0.72 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.72 Mil. Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust's overall GF Score™ is 22/100 with 5 warning signs to review. 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 Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust (EFT), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $0.72 Mil as of Nov. 2025. 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.

Eaton Vance Floating-rateome Trust Business Description

Address One Post Office Square, Boston, MA, USA, 02109
Eaton Vance Floating-rate Income Trust is a closed-end management investment company. The company's objective is to provide a high level of current income and its secondary objective is capital appreciation.
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