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Unilever Pakistan Foods (KAR:UPFL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ₨3,848 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Unilever Pakistan Foods Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Unilever Pakistan Foods's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ₨1,410 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was ₨3,848 Mil.


Unilever Pakistan Foods Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Unilever Pakistan Foods's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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* 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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Unilever Pakistan Foods Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Unilever Pakistan Foods 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 2,489.04 2,565.37 2,620.49 3,363.95 4,750.91

Unilever Pakistan Foods Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Mar25
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Competitive Comparison of Unilever Pakistan Foods's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Unilever Pakistan Foods'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.


Unilever Pakistan Foods's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Unilever Pakistan Foods's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Unilever Pakistan Foods 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 Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was ₨3,848 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.


Unilever Pakistan Foods  (KAR:UPFL) 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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Unilever Pakistan Foods Business Description

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Address
Fatima Jinnah Road, Avari Plaza, Karachi, SD, PAK, 75530
Unilever Pakistan Foods Ltd is a Pakistan-based company engaged in the manufacturing and selling of consumer and commercial food products. It sells the products under the brand names of Rafhan, Knorr, Hellmann's, Energile, Glaxose-D, and Food Solutions. It also includes brands such as Comfort, Dove, Lifebuoy, Pepsodent, Lux, Domex, Ponds, and other brands.

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