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Polar Capital Holdings (LSE:POLR) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0.5 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Polar Capital Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Polar Capital Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.2 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.5 Mil.


Polar Capital Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Polar Capital Holdings'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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Polar Capital Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Polar Capital Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.15 0.16 0.42 0.38 0.43

Polar Capital Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
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 0.18 0.21 0.19 0.24 0.23

Competitive Comparison of Polar Capital Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Polar Capital Holdings'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.


Polar Capital Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Polar Capital Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Polar Capital Holdings 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 Sep. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.5 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.


Polar Capital Holdings  (LSE:POLR) 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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Polar Capital Holdings (LSE:POLR) Business Description

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Address
16 Palace Street, London, GBR, SW1E 5JD
Polar Capital Holdings PLC is a specialist investment management company. It offers professional and institutional investors a range of geographical and sector funds. The company has long-only and absolute return funds in its product range. The company offers fundamental funds diversified by asset class, geographical, sectoral specialization, and structure. It operates in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cayman, and Europe. The group's revenue-generating operations are in London.

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