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Life Settlement Assets (LSE:LSAA) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $3.83 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2024)


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What is Life Settlement Assets Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Life Settlement Assets's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2024 was $1.18 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2024 was $3.83 Mil.


Life Settlement Assets Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Life Settlement Assets'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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Life Settlement Assets Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Life Settlement Assets Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 5.87 6.55 6.05 4.48 3.83

Life Settlement Assets Semi-Annual Data
Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24 Dec24
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 2.22 1.93 2.55 2.66 1.18

Competitive Comparison of Life Settlement Assets's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Life Settlement Assets'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.


Life Settlement Assets's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Life Settlement Assets's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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Life Settlement Assets 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. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.83 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.


Life Settlement Assets  (LSE:LSAA) 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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Life Settlement Assets Business Description

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Address
115 Park Street, 4th Floor, London, GBR, W1K 7AP
Life Settlement Assets PLC is a closed-ended investment company. The company's principal activities are to support and manage portfolios of whole and partial interests in life settlement policies issued by life insurance companies operating predominantly in the United States. Its investment objective is to generate long-term returns for shareholders by investing in the life settlement market. The Company's entire income is generated on the life settlement portfolios in the USA.

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