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Pinnacle Foods (Pinnacle Foods) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $319 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2018)


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What is Pinnacle Foods Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Pinnacle Foods's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2018 was $86 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2018 was $319 Mil.


Pinnacle Foods Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pinnacle Foods'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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Pinnacle Foods Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Pinnacle Foods Annual Data
Trend Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 295.49 294.65 283.71 381.32 324.00

Pinnacle Foods Quarterly Data
Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18
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 83.10 81.45 67.84 83.90 85.99

Competitive Comparison of Pinnacle Foods's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Pinnacle Foods'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.


Pinnacle Foods's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Pinnacle Foods's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Pinnacle Foods 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 Jun. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $319 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.


Pinnacle Foods  (NYSE:PF) 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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Pinnacle Foods (Pinnacle Foods) Business Description

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Pinnacle makes, sells, and distributes packaged food products. The firm owns several long-standing brands, including Birds Eye, Duncan Hines, Vlasic, Mrs. Butterworth's, Van de Kamp, and Wish-Bone. Its 2016 acquisition of Boulder Brands added Smart Balance, Earth Balance, and gluten-free products under the Udi's and Glutino labels. Its frozen segment accounted for 41% of 2017 sales, with grocery contributing 35%, Boulder delivering about 13%, and specialty foods around 10%. Almost all of the company's sales are generated in North America.