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Hargreaves Services (LSE:HSP) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £33.9 Mil (TTM As of May. 2024)


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What is Hargreaves Services Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Hargreaves Services's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in May. 2024 was £17.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in May. 2024 was £33.9 Mil.


Hargreaves Services Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Hargreaves Services'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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Hargreaves Services Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Hargreaves Services Annual Data
Trend May15 May16 May17 May18 May19 May20 May21 May22 May23 May24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 26.84 29.23 24.52 32.18 33.92

Hargreaves Services Semi-Annual Data
Nov14 May15 Nov15 May16 Nov16 May17 Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19 May20 Nov20 May21 Nov21 May22 Nov22 May23 Nov23 May24
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 13.15 16.56 15.62 16.13 17.79

Competitive Comparison of Hargreaves Services's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Conglomerates subindustry, Hargreaves Services'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.


Hargreaves Services's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Hargreaves Services's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hargreaves Services 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 May. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £33.9 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.


Hargreaves Services  (LSE:HSP) 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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Hargreaves Services Business Description

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West Terrace, Esh Winning, Durham, GBR, DH7 9PT
Hargreaves Services PLC delivers projects and services in the infrastructure, energy, and property sectors, supporting key industries within the UK and South East Asia. The company's business segments are Services; Hargreaves Land; Unallocated and Hargreaves Raw Materials Services. It generates maximum revenue from the Services segment. The Services segment provides materials handling, mechanical and electrical engineering, land restoration, logistics and bulk earthmoving into the energy, environmental, infrastructure and industrial sectors.

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