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Sage Group (The) (LSE:SGE) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £1,572 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Sage Group (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Sage Group (The)'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was £788 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was £1,572 Mil.


Sage Group (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sage Group (The)'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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Sage Group (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Sage Group (The) Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,350.00 1,366.00 1,357.00 1,434.00 1,572.00

Sage Group (The) 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 683.00 684.00 750.00 784.00 788.00

Competitive Comparison of Sage Group (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Software - Application subindustry, Sage Group (The)'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.


Sage Group (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Sage Group (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sage Group (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Sage Group (The) 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 £1,572 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.


Sage Group (The)  (LSE:SGE) 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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Sage Group (The) (LSE:SGE) Business Description

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The Sage Group is a U.K.-based provider of accounting and enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software, predominantly to customers in the U.S. and Europe. The company was founded in 1981 and historically sold on-premises software products with perpetual software licenses. However, the company is transitioning toward cloud connected and cloud native products, sold via software-as-a-service, or SaaS, contracts. Sage's main cloud native products include Sage Accounting, for small businesses, and Sage Intacct, which Sage acquired in 2017, for midsize businesses.

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