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Pick N Pay Stores (JSE:PIK) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : R3,512 Mil (TTM As of Aug. 2024)


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What is Pick N Pay Stores Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Pick N Pay Stores's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Aug. 2024 was R1,784 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2024 was R3,512 Mil.


Pick N Pay Stores Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pick N Pay Stores'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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Pick N Pay Stores Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Pick N Pay Stores Annual Data
Trend Feb15 Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23 Feb24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2,548.20 2,764.30 2,981.20 3,168.60 3,358.10

Pick N Pay Stores Semi-Annual Data
Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24 Aug24
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 1,650.20 1,518.40 1,630.10 1,728.00 1,784.30

Competitive Comparison of Pick N Pay Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Department Stores subindustry, Pick N Pay Stores'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.


Pick N Pay Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Pick N Pay Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Pick N Pay Stores's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Pick N Pay Stores 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 Aug. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was R3,512 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.


Pick N Pay Stores  (JSE:PIK) 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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Pick N Pay Stores Business Description

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Address
101 Rosmead Avenue, Pick n Pay Office Park, Kenilworth, Cape Town, WC, ZAF, 7708
Pick N Pay Stores Ltd is a South African multiformat and multichannel retailer. The company operates in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Mauritius, Swaziland, and Lesotho. The company offers food and groceries, clothing, general merchandise, and services across multiple store formats, both franchised and owned. The customer base is mainly represented by middle-income South African consumer. The portfolio of stores is composed of supermarkets, hypermarkets, local shops, express shops, clothing shops, liquor stores, and others.