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Gameloft SE (LTS:0NAV) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €63.3 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2015)


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What is Gameloft SE Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Gameloft SE's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2015 was €18.3 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was €63.3 Mil.


Gameloft SE Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Gameloft SE'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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Gameloft SE Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Gameloft SE Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 45.60 54.72 58.77 47.56 63.29

Gameloft SE Semi-Annual Data
Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Jun09 Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15
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 30.91 34.37 13.18 45.00 18.29

Competitive Comparison of Gameloft SE's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Electronic Gaming & Multimedia subindustry, Gameloft SE'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.


Gameloft SE's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Gameloft SE's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Gameloft SE's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Gameloft SE 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. 2015 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €63.3 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.


Gameloft SE  (LTS:0NAV) 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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Gameloft SE (LTS:0NAV) Business Description

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Gameloft SE is a European company founded on 1st December 1999. The Company creates and publishes downloadable video games for mobile telephones, smartphones, touch tablets, set-top boxes, and Smart TVs. The Company develops all of its games in-house in its production studios and has its own portfolio of original properties with established franchises, such as Real Football, Asphalt, Modern Combat, Dungeon Hunter, Gangstar and Order & Chaos. On feature phones, smartphones and touch tablets, the Company has three main distribution networks for its games: telephone manufacturers, telecom operators, and its own distribution platform. The telephone manufacturers that are currently the Company's customers and partners are Nokia, Samsung, Apple, LG, ZTE, Motorola, RIM, Huawei, etc. The Company's games are distributed by more than 200 telecom operators in over 100 countries worldwide. Mobile and tablet games can also be downloaded directly from the various Company's portals.

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