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Combined Motor Holdings (JSE:CMH) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : R633 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2025)


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What is Combined Motor 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. Combined Motor Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Feb. 2025 was R-320 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2025 was R633 Mil.


Combined Motor Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Combined Motor 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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Combined Motor Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Combined Motor Holdings Annual Data
Trend Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23 Feb24 Feb25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Combined Motor Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24 Aug24 Feb25
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 -329.94 909.02 -293.65 953.23 -319.92

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

For the Auto & Truck Dealerships subindustry, Combined Motor 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.


Combined Motor Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry

For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Combined Motor Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Combined Motor 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 Feb. 2025 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was R633 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.


Combined Motor Holdings  (JSE:CMH) 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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Combined Motor Holdings Business Description

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1 Wilton Crescent, Umhlanga Ridge, Durban, ZAF, 4319
Combined Motor Holdings Ltd is a South Africa-based investment holding company. The company with its subsidiaries is engaged in retail motor, car hire, and financial services. The company operates in four business segments namely Motor retail and distribution segment which comprises of retail motor dealerships of Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, Honda, Ford, Mazda, General Motors, Lexus, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Toyota, and Morris Garages, among others which also contributes a majority part of revenue; Car Hire segment; Financial services segment and, Corporate services and others segment. The majority of its revenue is earned from the South African market.

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