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KinderCare Learning (KinderCare Learning) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $92.92 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2021)


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What is KinderCare Learning Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. KinderCare Learning's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2021 was $50.86 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2021 was $92.92 Mil.


KinderCare Learning Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for KinderCare Learning'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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KinderCare Learning Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

KinderCare Learning Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
188.57 202.70 158.41

KinderCare Learning Quarterly Data
Dec18 Dec19 Sep20 Dec20 Jun21 Sep21
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 37.96 42.06 - 50.86

Competitive Comparison of KinderCare Learning's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, KinderCare Learning'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.


KinderCare Learning's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, KinderCare Learning's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where KinderCare Learning's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



KinderCare Learning 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. 2021 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $92.92 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.


KinderCare Learning  (NYSE:KLC) 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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