Family Dollar Stores (FRA:FAY) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €2,625 Mil (TTM As of May. 2015)

Family Dollar Stores Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Family Dollar Stores Annual Data
	Trend	Aug05	Aug06	Aug07	Aug08	Aug09	Aug10	Aug11	Aug12	Aug13	Aug14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1,730.11	1,671.17	2,082.89	2,152.96	2,269.69

Family Dollar Stores Quarterly Data
	Aug10	Nov10	Feb11	May11	Aug11	Nov11	Feb12	May12	Aug12	Nov12	Feb13	May13	Aug13	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															558.41	568.22	620.29	709.48	726.91

Competitive Comparison of Family Dollar Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Family Dollar Stores'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.

Family Dollar Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Family Dollar Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Family Dollar Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.

Family Dollar Stores 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 May. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €2,625 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.

Family Dollar Stores  (FRA:FAY) 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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