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Fidelity Special Values (LSE:FSV) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0.96 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Fidelity Special Values Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Fidelity Special Values's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Feb. 2024 was £0.47 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was £0.96 Mil.


Fidelity Special Values Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Fidelity Special Values'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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Fidelity Special Values Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Fidelity Special Values Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.78 0.82 0.70 0.84 0.95

Fidelity Special Values Semi-Annual Data
Aug14 Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.47 0.37 0.46 0.49 0.47

Competitive Comparison of Fidelity Special Values's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Fidelity Special Values'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.


Fidelity Special Values's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Fidelity Special Values's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Fidelity Special Values's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Fidelity Special Values 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 Feb. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.96 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.


Fidelity Special Values  (LSE:FSV) 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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Fidelity Special Values (LSE:FSV) Business Description

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Millfield Lane, Beech Gate, Lower Kingswood, Fidelity International, Tadworth, Surrey, GBR, KT20 6RP
Fidelity Special Values PLC is an investment trust company operating in the UK. The company's investment objective is to achieve long term capital growth predominantly through investment in UK listed companies. It seeks to meet its investment objective through investment in a diversified portfolio of securities issued by or related to predominantly the UK listed companies across the market capitalization spectrum, and the investment approach is flexible, with positions in large, medium and smaller sized companies. The group may use gearing to enhance long term capital growth using debt and CFDs, depending on the relative cost and availability of those instruments.

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