GURUFOCUS.COM » STOCK LIST » Real Estate » Real Estate » Lok'n Store Group PLC (LSE:LOK) » Definitions » Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

Lok'n Store Group (LSE:LOK) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £1.64 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2024)


View and export this data going back to 2000. Start your Free Trial

What is Lok'n Store 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. Lok'n Store Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jan. 2024 was £0.86 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was £1.64 Mil.


Lok'n Store Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lok'n Store 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.

* Premium members only.

Lok'n Store Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Lok'n Store Group Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.30 1.14 1.34 1.44 1.57

Lok'n Store Group Semi-Annual Data
Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
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 0.70 0.74 0.79 0.78 0.86

Competitive Comparison of Lok'n Store Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Real Estate Services subindustry, Lok'n Store 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.


Lok'n Store Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Real Estate Industry

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Lok'n Store Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lok'n Store Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Lok'n Store 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 Jan. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £1.64 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.


Lok'n Store Group  (LSE:LOK) 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.


Lok'n Store Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Lok'n Store Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.


Lok'n Store Group (LSE:LOK) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
112 Hawley Lane, Farnborough, Hampshire, GBR, GU14 8JE
Lok'n Store Group PLC operates in the real estate industry based in the United Kingdom. Its business involves buying or leasing warehouses or industrial buildings and letting them out as self-storage units to its customers. Operating through the Self-Storage segments, the company caters to both households and business customers. Its self-storage segment accounts for the bulk of its operations with the provision of storage rooms, student storage, pallet storage, warehouse space, self-storage archiving, flexible office space, and multi-site business storage accounts.

Lok'n Store Group (LSE:LOK) Headlines

No Headlines