What is Pacer International, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?
Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Pacer International,'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2013 was €39.0 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2013 was €160.3 Mil.
Pacer International, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for Pacer International,'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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Pacer International, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart
Competitive Comparison of Pacer International,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Pacer International,'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.
Pacer International,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Pacer International,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Pacer International,'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Pacer International, 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. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €160.3 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.
Pacer International, (FRA:PA1) 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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Pacer International, (FRA:PA1) Business Description
Pacer International, Inc., is an asset-light transportation and global logistics services provider. The Company provide its services from two operating segments, an intermodal segment, which provides intermodal transportation services mainly to beneficial cargo owners, transportation intermediaries and steamship lines who use intermodal transportation, and the logistics segment, which provides highway brokerage, supply chain management services, international freight forwarding, ocean shipping, and warehousing and distribution services to a wide variety of end-user customers. Intermodal segment offers full service door-to-door intermodal services to its customers, which include end-user customers, transportation intermediaries, such as intermodal marketing companies, and steamship lines. The Company logistics segment consists of: Highway brokerage services; International freight forwarding and NVOCC services; Warehousing and Distribution services; and Supply Chain Management services. The Company provides transportation and logistics services to many Fortune 500 and multi-national companies as well as to numerous other shippers and transportation third parties. The Company has direct sales and customer service representatives in its intermodal and logistics segments that sell and support its portfolio of services to a diverse customer base which includes beneficial cargo owners, steamship lines, truckload carriers, truck brokers, freight forwarders and other third party transportation service providers such as intermodal marketing companies, third-party logistics companies, and shippers' agents. The Company's main competitors are J.B. Hunt Transport, Schneider National, the Hub Group, C.H. Robinson, the supply chain solutions divisions of Ryder and Menlo Worldwide, Expeditors International and UTi Worldwide, Inc. The Company's facilities and operations are subject to federal, state and local environmental, hazardous materials transportation and occupational health and safety requirements, including those relating to the handling, labeling, shipping and transportation of hazardous materials, discharges of substances into the air, water and land, the handling, storage and disposal of wastes and the cleanup of properties affected by pollutants.
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