FNCHQ (Finch Therapeutics Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $19.69 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2024)

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What is Finch Therapeutics Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Finch Therapeutics Group FNCHQ 12 Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $19.69 Mil as of Jun. 2024. GuruFocus rates FNCHQ with a GF Score™ of 12/100.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Finch Therapeutics Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2024 was $6.11 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2024 was $19.69 Mil.


Finch Therapeutics Group  (OTCPK:FNCHQ) 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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Finch Therapeutics Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Finch Therapeutics Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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* 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.

Finch Therapeutics Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Finch Therapeutics Group Annual Data
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7.44 14.01 21.24 36.19 26.91

Finch Therapeutics Group Quarterly Data
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FNCHQ vs CRIS, LSB, RANI: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Finch Therapeutics Group'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.


Finch Therapeutics Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Finch Therapeutics Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Finch Therapeutics Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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Finch Therapeutics Group 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 Jun. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $19.69 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 $19.69 Mil mean?
Finch Therapeutics Group (FNCHQ) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $19.69 Mil as of Jun. 2024. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Finch Therapeutics Group and its competitors.
Is Finch Therapeutics Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Finch Therapeutics Group's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $19.69 Mil. Overall, Finch Therapeutics Group has a GF Score™ of 12/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Finch Therapeutics Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to CRIS and LSB?
Finch Therapeutics Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $19.69 Mil can be compared against companies in the Biotechnology 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 a Biotechnology company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Biotechnology 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 Finch Therapeutics Group and its competitors. Finch Therapeutics Group's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $19.69 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Finch Therapeutics Group stock overvalued right now?
Finch Therapeutics Group (FNCHQ) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $19.69 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $19.69 Mil. Finch Therapeutics Group's overall GF Score™ is 12/100. 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 Finch Therapeutics Group (FNCHQ), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $19.69 Mil as of Jun. 2024. 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.

Finch Therapeutics Group Business Description

Address 75 State Street, Suite 100, Boston, MA, USA, 02109
Finch Therapeutics Group Inc is a microbiome technology company with a portfolio of intellectual property and microbiome assets. Finch has a robust intellectual property estate reflecting the company's pioneering role in the microbiome therapeutics field, including more than 70 issued U.S. and foreign patents with critical relevance for both donor-derived and donor-independent microbiome therapeutics in a range of potential indications. The company's assets include CP101, an investigational, orally administered microbiome candidate with positive clinical data from a Phase 2 randomized, placebo-controlled trial and a Phase 2 open-label trial in recurrent C. difficile infection (CDI).
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