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Big Technologies (LSE:BIG) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £22.25 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Big Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Big Technologies's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was £10.44 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was £22.25 Mil.


Big Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Big Technologies'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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Big Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Big Technologies Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
9.33 7.34 12.88 15.80 22.25

Big Technologies Semi-Annual Data
Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 8.02 7.49 8.31 11.81 10.44

Competitive Comparison of Big Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Software - Application subindustry, Big Technologies'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.


Big Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Big Technologies 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £22.25 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.


Big Technologies  (LSE:BIG) 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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Big Technologies (LSE:BIG) Business Description

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17 Church Street, Talbot House, Rickmansworth, GBR, WD3 1DE
Big Technologies PLC provides products and services to the remote and personal monitoring industry under several brand and trading names. The company's criminal justice solution involves proprietary monitoring software combined with modular monitoring hardware being used to accurately track the location of tag wearers. Alongside this, it also offers monitoring services solutions for its customers. The company provides its solutions on a SaaS-like subscription-based model, with long-term contracts spanning up to twelve years in length, providing a secure revenue base from which to deliver contract expansion and to win new contracts. It generates revenue across the world, with operations across the United Kingdom, Australia, United States and Colombia.