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VTech Holdings (FRA:VTCB) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €332 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is VTech Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. VTech Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was €162 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was €332 Mil.


VTech Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for VTech Holdings'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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VTech Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

VTech Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 329.13 333.13 317.69 345.49 347.07

VTech Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 146.12 189.41 191.19 170.27 161.91

Competitive Comparison of VTech Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, VTech Holdings'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.


VTech Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, VTech Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where VTech Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



VTech Holdings 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. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €332 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.


VTech Holdings  (FRA:VTCB) 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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VTech Holdings (FRA:VTCB) Business Description

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Block 1, 57 Ting Kok Road, Tai Po, 23rd Floor, Tai Ping Industrial Centre, New Territories, Hong Kong, HKG
VTech Holdings Ltd is engaged in designing, manufacturing, and distribution of consumer electronic products. It also provides contract manufacturing services. VTech's diverse collection of products include Telephone Products, Business Phones, Electronic Learning Toys, Baby Monitors and Hospitality Products. It offers turnkey services to customers in a number of product categories. The company operates through four geographical segments, North America including the United States and Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific and Others, which covers sales of electronic products to the rest of the world. VTech generates a majority of its revenue from North America and Europe.

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