NPFD (Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $1.26 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2026)


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What is Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income NPFD -0.08% 32 Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.26 Mil as of Jan. 2026. GuruFocus rates NPFD with a GF Score™ of 32/100. The stock has 6 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. Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jan. 2026 was $0.64 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2026 was $1.26 Mil.


Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income  (NYSE:NPFD) 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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Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income'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.

Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income Annual Data
Trend Jul22 Jul23 Jul24 Jul25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.20 1.13 1.42 1.50

Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income Semi-Annual Data
Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24 Jul24 Jan25 Jul25 Jan26
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 0.66 0.76 0.88 0.62 0.64

NPFD vs ETB, EVN, KIO: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Asset Management subindustry, Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income'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.


Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income 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 Jan. 2026 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.26 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 $1.26 Mil mean?
Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income (NPFD) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.26 Mil as of Jan. 2026. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income and its competitors.
Is Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.26 Mil. Overall, Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income has a GF Score™ of 32/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to ETB and EVN?
Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.26 Mil can be compared against companies in the Asset Management 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 an Asset Management company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Asset Management 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 Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income and its competitors. Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.26 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income stock overvalued right now?
Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income (NPFD) has a current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $1.26 Mil. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.26 Mil. Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income's overall GF Score™ is 32/100 with 6 warning signs to review. 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 Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income (NPFD), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $1.26 Mil as of Jan. 2026. 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.

Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income Business Description

Address 333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, USA, 60606
Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of current income and total return. The fund invests a majority of its assets in variable-rate preferred securities and other variable-rate income-producing securities. The rest of its investments can be made in contingent capital securities or contingent convertible securities, convertible securities, corporate debt securities, U.S. government securities, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, fixed-rate preferred securities, senior loans and loan participations and assignments, sovereign debt instruments, debt securities issued by supranational agencies, and/or taxable and tax-exempt municipal bonds.
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