FSSL (FS Specialty Lending Fund) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $13.6 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2025)


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What is FS Specialty Lending Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

FS Specialty Lending Fund FSSL +0.09% 13 Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $13.6 Mil as of Dec. 2025. GuruFocus rates FSSL with a GF Score™ of 13/100. The stock has 2 warning signs investors should review.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. FS Specialty Lending Fund's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2025 was $0.0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2025 was $13.6 Mil.


FS Specialty Lending Fund  (NYSE:FSSL) 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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FS Specialty Lending Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for FS Specialty Lending Fund'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.

FS Specialty Lending Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

FS Specialty Lending Fund Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24 Dec25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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FS Specialty Lending Fund Quarterly Data
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FSSL vs MFIC, AWF, RPC: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Asset Management subindustry, FS Specialty Lending Fund'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.


FS Specialty Lending Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, FS Specialty Lending Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where FS Specialty Lending Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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FS Specialty Lending Fund 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $13.6 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $13.6 Mil mean?
FS Specialty Lending Fund (FSSL) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $13.6 Mil as of Dec. 2025. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on FS Specialty Lending Fund and its competitors.
Is FS Specialty Lending Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
FS Specialty Lending Fund's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $13.6 Mil. Overall, FS Specialty Lending Fund has a GF Score™ of 13/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does FS Specialty Lending Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to MFIC and AWF?
FS Specialty Lending Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $13.6 Mil can be compared against companies in the Asset Management industry. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for an Asset Management company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Asset Management industry context. However, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense mean?
A high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on FS Specialty Lending Fund and its competitors. FS Specialty Lending Fund's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $13.6 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is FS Specialty Lending Fund stock overvalued right now?
FS Specialty Lending Fund (FSSL) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $13.6 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $13.6 Mil. FS Specialty Lending Fund's overall GF Score™ is 13/100 with 2 warning signs to review. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Selling, General, & Admin. Expense calculated?
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is calculated from a company's financial statements. For FS Specialty Lending Fund (FSSL), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $13.6 Mil as of Dec. 2025. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.

FS Specialty Lending Fund Business Description

Address 3025 JFK Boulevard, OFC 500, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 19104
FS Specialty Lending Fund is a United States-based externally managed, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The company's investment objectives are to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, long-term capital appreciation by investing mainly in private and public credit in a broad set of industries, sectors, and sub-sectors. Its investment policy is to invest mainly in a portfolio of secured and unsecured floating and fixed-rate loans, bonds, and other types of credit instruments, which, under normal circumstances, will represent at least eighty percent of the Company's total assets.
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