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Auction Technology Group (LSE:ATG) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £73.1 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Auction Technology Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Auction Technology Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Mar. 2024 was £47.4 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was £73.1 Mil.


Auction Technology Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Auction Technology Group'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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Auction Technology Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Auction Technology Group Annual Data
Trend Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 9.63 41.34 66.51 63.65 69.72

Auction Technology Group Semi-Annual Data
Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 30.05 33.60 43.99 25.74 47.38

Competitive Comparison of Auction Technology Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Software - Application subindustry, Auction Technology Group'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.


Auction Technology Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Auction Technology Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Auction Technology Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Auction Technology Group 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. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £73.1 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.


Auction Technology Group  (LSE:ATG) 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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Auction Technology Group (LSE:ATG) Business Description

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65 Southwark Street, The Harlequin Building, London, GBR, SE1 0HR
Auction Technology Group PLC is engaged in the provision of auction technology software and related services to auction houses and other customers. Its goal is to simplify and integrate multiple parts of the online auction process, from the cataloguing of items to marketing, auction hosting, bidding and recent payment solutions. The group has four segments namely Arts and Antiques, Industrial and Commercial, Auction services, and Content. The majority of revenue is generated from Art & Antiques segment. Geographically the company serves the United Kingdom, Germany, and USA, where the majority of revenue is generated from USA.

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