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China Unicom (Hong Kong) (FRA:XCI) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €512 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2024)


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What is China Unicom (Hong Kong) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. China Unicom (Hong Kong)'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2024 was €323 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2024 was €512 Mil.


China Unicom (Hong Kong) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for China Unicom (Hong Kong)'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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China Unicom (Hong Kong) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 519.40 586.64 548.93 531.82 517.07

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Semi-Annual Data
Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24 Dec24
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 330.12 203.77 328.78 189.52 322.94

Competitive Comparison of China Unicom (Hong Kong)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Telecom Services subindustry, China Unicom (Hong Kong)'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.


China Unicom (Hong Kong)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, China Unicom (Hong Kong)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where China Unicom (Hong Kong)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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China Unicom (Hong Kong) 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. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €512 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.


China Unicom (Hong Kong)  (FRA:XCI) 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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China Unicom (Hong Kong) Business Description

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99 Queen's Road, 75th Floor, The Center, Central, Hong Kong, HKG
China Unicom is the incumbent fixed-line operator in 10 northern Chinese provinces, as well as the third-largest wireless operator nationwide. As of December 2024, it had over 340 million billing wireless customers and over 120 million broadband subscribers. China Unicom also has a growing ICT business. We estimate it has the third largest internet data center business in China with 420,000 cabinets and its Cloud Service revenue is also showing very strong growth. It has its own 4G network and shares the radio access function with China Telecom for its 5G network.

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