McColl's Retail Group (LSE:MCLS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £272 Mil (TTM As of May. 2021)

McColl's Retail Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

McColl's Retail Group Annual Data
	Trend	Nov11	Nov12	Nov13	Nov14	Nov15	Nov16	Nov17	Nov18	Nov19	Nov20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					239.44	286.89	311.44	306.60	286.80

McColl's Retail Group Semi-Annual Data
	Nov11	Nov12	May13	Nov13	May14	Nov14	May15	Nov15	May16	Nov16	May17	Nov17	May18	Nov18	May19	Nov19	May20	Nov20	May21
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial														153.84	152.76	144.30	142.50	129.50

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

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, McColl's Retail 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.

McColl's Retail Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

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

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

McColl's Retail 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 May. 2021 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £272 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.

McColl's Retail Group  (LSE:MCLS) 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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