What is Affinity Education Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?
Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Affinity Education Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
six
months ended in Jun. 2015 was €47.7 Mil.
Affinity Education Group does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015.
Affinity Education Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for Affinity Education Group'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.
* Premium members only.
Affinity Education Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
Affinity Education Group Annual Data
Trend
Dec14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
58.12
Affinity Education Group Semi-Annual Data
Jun14
Dec14
Jun15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
21.02
37.69
47.67
Competitive Comparison of Affinity Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Personal Services subindustry, Affinity Education 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.
Affinity Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Personal Services Industry
For the Personal Services industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Affinity Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Affinity Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Affinity Education 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.
Affinity Education Group (FRA:A0J) 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.
Affinity Education Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms
Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Affinity Education Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.
Affinity Education Group (FRA:A0J) Business Description
Affinity Education Group Ltd was incorporated on 21st May, 2013. The Company provides education and care to children aged six weeks to 12 years. Provision of these services includes long day care, before and after school care and occasional care. Its segments include Long day care centers, Outside school-hours care, Family day care, and Occasional care. Long day care centers are set up to primarily offer care to below school age children with working parents. The care can be both full-and-part time. Outside school-hours care provides before and after school short-term care to children of primary school age. Vacation care is also considered part of this segment, providing child care services to parents during school holidays. Family day care is the only area of child care approved under the National Quality Framework that takes place outside of a center, with care provided in the home of an approved educator. This type of care can be all day, part time, occasional or outside school hours. Occasional care offers child care services for children on a casual basis. Centers offering occasional services are primarily set up to provide flexibility to parents with irregular working hours or short-term needs. As with family day care, occasional care is a capped program.
Quick Browse
Personalize
Premium Gurus 
Create New Portfolio
Portfolio Contest
FRA:A0J has been successfully added to your