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FRFGF.PFD (Fairfax Financial Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1,289.80 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Fairfax Financial 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. Fairfax Financial Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was $1,289.80 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $1,289.80 Mil.


Fairfax Financial Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Fairfax Financial 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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Fairfax Financial Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Fairfax Financial Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,398.80 1,093.30 1,155.10 1,359.90 -

Fairfax Financial Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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Competitive Comparison of Fairfax Financial Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Fairfax Financial 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.


Fairfax Financial Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Fairfax Financial Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Fairfax Financial 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,289.80 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.


Fairfax Financial Holdings  (OTCPK:FRFGF.PFD) 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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Fairfax Financial Holdings Business Description

Address
95 Wellington Street West, Suite 800, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5J 2N7
Fairfax provides reinsurance and property and casualty insurance in Canada, the United States, and other international markets. The company also has some noninsurance operations such as restaurants. Fairfax has been led by Prem Watsa, its chairman and CEO, since its formation in 1985.