PINS (Pinterest) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $1,695 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2026)

Pinterest  (NYSE:PINS) 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.

Pinterest Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

The historical data trend for Pinterest'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.

Pinterest Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Pinterest Annual Data
	Trend	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19	Dec20	Dec21	Dec22	Dec23	Dec24	Dec25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial				942.26	1,276.67	1,423.57	1,475.43	1,632.92

Pinterest Quarterly Data
	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24	Jun24	Sep24	Dec24	Mar25	Jun25	Sep25	Dec25	Mar26
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															359.53	439.92	407.11	426.35	421.37

PINS vs TME, MTCH, SNAP: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Pinterest'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.

Pinterest Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Interactive Media Industry

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

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

Pinterest 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 Mar. 2026 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,695 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.

Pinterest Business Description