Dixons Retail (LSE:DXNS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0 Mil (TTM As of Apr. 2014)

Dixons Retail Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Dixons Retail Annual Data
	Trend	Apr05	Apr06	Apr07	May08	Apr09	Apr10	Apr11	Apr12	Apr13	Apr14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					186.70	189.80	582.70	353.60	324.70

Dixons Retail Semi-Annual Data
	Oct07	Oct08	Apr09	Oct09	Apr10	Oct10	Apr11	Oct11	Apr12	Oct12	Apr13	Oct13	Apr14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial								-	-	-	-	-

Competitive Comparison of Dixons Retail's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Dixons Retail'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.

Dixons Retail's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

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

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

Dixons Retail 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 Apr. 2014 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0 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.

Dixons Retail  (LSE:DXNS) 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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