ProService Building Services Marketplace (LSE:PRO) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: £58.3 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2025)

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What is ProService Building Services Marketplace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

ProService Building Services Marketplace LSE:PRO -7.59% Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £58.3 Mil as of Sep. 2025. The stock has 7 warning signs investors should review.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. ProService Building Services Marketplace's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2025 was £58.3 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2025 was £58.3 Mil.


ProService Building Services Marketplace  (LSE:PRO) 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.


ProService Building Services Marketplace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms


ProService Building Services Marketplace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for ProService Building Services Marketplace'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.

ProService Building Services Marketplace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

ProService Building Services Marketplace Annual Data
Trend Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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ProService Building Services Marketplace Semi-Annual Data
Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24 Sep25
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LSE:PRO vs URI, SUNB, AER: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Rental & Leasing Services subindustry, ProService Building Services Marketplace'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.


ProService Building Services Marketplace Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, ProService Building Services Marketplace's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



ProService Building Services Marketplace 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. 2025 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £58.3 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £58.3 Mil mean?
ProService Building Services Marketplace (LSE:PRO) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £58.3 Mil as of Sep. 2025. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on ProService Building Services Marketplace and its competitors.
Is ProService Building Services Marketplace's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
ProService Building Services Marketplace's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £58.3 Mil.
How does ProService Building Services Marketplace's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to URI and SUNB?
ProService Building Services Marketplace's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £58.3 Mil can be compared against companies in the Business Services industry. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for a Business Services company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Business Services industry context. However, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense mean?
A high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on ProService Building Services Marketplace and its competitors. ProService Building Services Marketplace's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £58.3 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is ProService Building Services Marketplace stock overvalued right now?
ProService Building Services Marketplace (LSE:PRO) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of £58.3 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £58.3 Mil. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Selling, General, & Admin. Expense calculated?
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is calculated from a company's financial statements. For ProService Building Services Marketplace (LSE:PRO), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is £58.3 Mil as of Sep. 2025. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.

ProService Building Services Marketplace Business Description

Other Exchanges PROl:UKHG3:Germany
Address Mosley Road, Building 2, Think Park, Manchester, GBR, M17 1FQ
ProService Building Services Marketplace PLC formerly HSS Hire Group PLC is a provider of equipment hire services in the UK and Ireland. The company operates through two divisions: ProService and Operations. ProService offers a wide range of solutions to the building services market. Operations provides tool and equipment hire services in the UK, supplying a range of customers who require equipment.