What is Invensys Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?
Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Invensys's selling, general, & admin. expense for the
six
months ended in Sep. 2013 was €248 Mil.
Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2013 was €486 Mil.
Invensys Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data
The historical data trend for Invensys'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.
Competitive Comparison of Invensys's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Invensys'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.
Invensys's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Invensys's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Invensys's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.
Invensys 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 Sep. 2013 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €486 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.
Invensys (FRA:SBPD) 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.
Invensys Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms
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Invensys PLC is a technology company that works in partnership with industrial and commercial customers to design and supply advanced technologies that optimise operational performance and proï¬tability. The Company is grouped into four new business segments - Software, Industrial Automation, Energy Controls and Appliance. The Company's divisions include; Invensys Operations Management which is a technology, software and consulting business that creates and applies technologies to enable the safe and efï¬cient operation of industrial and commercial operations such as oil reï¬neries, fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, petrochemical works and other manufacturing sites. Invensys Controls designs, engineers and manufactures products, components, systems and services used in appliances, heating, air conditioning/cooling and refrigeration products across a range of industries in residential and commercial markets. The Software segment consists of the software businesses previously within Invensys Operations Management and includes Wonderware, SimSciTM and Avantis brands. Industrial Automation segment consists of the systems businesses of our Foxboro distributed control systems (DCS) and Triconex safety systems with the addition of the Foxboro measurement and instrumentation products previously within the equipment business of Invensys Operations Management. Energy Controls segment consists of the Eurotherm and IMServ businesses previously included within the equipment business of Invensys Operations Management, together with the residential heating and commercial businesses that were formerly part of Invensys Controls. Appliance segment consists of the Appliance controls line of business previously within Invensys Controls, together with the appliance replacement parts business formerly within Wholesale, also part of the former Invensys Controls.
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