What is Artio Global Investors, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?
Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Artio Global Investors,'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Mar. 2013 was €21.01 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2013 was €103.61 Mil.
Artio Global Investors, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for Artio Global Investors,'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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Artio Global Investors, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
Competitive Comparison of Artio Global Investors,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Asset Management subindustry, Artio Global Investors,'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.
Artio Global Investors,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Artio Global Investors,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Artio Global Investors,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Artio Global Investors, 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. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €103.61 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.
Artio Global Investors, (FRA:A1I) 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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Artio Global Investors, (FRA:A1I) Business Description
Artio Global Investors Inc. was incorporated in Delaware. The Company is an asset management Company that provides investment management services to institutional and mutual fund clients. In addition to International Equity, it offers a select group of other equity and fixed income strategies, including Global Equity, a series of U.S. Equity strategies, High Grade Fixed Income, High Yield and Local Emerging Markets Debt. Currently, it manage and advise the following investment vehicles through which clients can access its investment capabilities: proprietary funds; commingled institutional investment vehicles; institutional separate accounts; sub-advisory accounts; and a hedge fund. Its operations and clients are based principally in the U.S.; however, a substantial portion of its AuM is invested outside of the U.S. Its revenues are mainly billed in U.S. dollars, driven by investment management fees earned from managing clients' assets, and are calculated on the U.S. dollar value of the investment assets it manage for clients. Its distribution efforts target institutions and organizations that demonstrate institutional buying behavior and longer-term investment horizons, such as pension fund consultants, broker dealers, registered investment advisors ('RIAs'), mutual fund platforms and sub-advisory relationships, enabling it to achieve significant leverage from its focused sales force and client service infrastructure. It also manage assets for more than 700,000 retail mutual fund shareholders through SEC-registered funds and other retail investors through 10 funds that it sub-advise for others. It competes in all aspects of its business with other investment management companies. The Company's business is subject to extensive regulation in the U.S. at both the federal and state level, as well as by self-regulatory organizations and outside the U.S.
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