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Bastei Lubbe AG (FRA:BST) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €0.0 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Bastei Lubbe AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Bastei Lubbe AG's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was €0.0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was €0.0 Mil.


Bastei Lubbe AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Bastei Lubbe AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Bastei Lubbe AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Bastei Lubbe AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Publishing subindustry, Bastei Lubbe AG'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.


Bastei Lubbe AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Bastei Lubbe AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Bastei Lubbe AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Bastei Lubbe AG 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €0.0 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.


Bastei Lubbe AG  (FRA:BST) 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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Bastei Lubbe AG (FRA:BST) Business Description

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Schanzenstrasse 6-20, Cologne, DEU, 51063
Bastei Lubbe AG Formerly Bastei Luebbe AG is a media company in the form of a publishing house. The company publishes books, audiobooks, eBooks, and other digital products in the genres of fiction and popular science, as well as periodicals including novel booklets and puzzle magazines. Its operating segment includes Books; and Novel booklets. The company generates maximum revenue from the Books segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from Germany.