PRGS (Progress Software) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $270.6 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2025)

Progress Software Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Progress Software Annual Data
	Trend	Nov15	Nov16	Nov17	Nov18	Nov19	Nov20	Nov21	Nov22	Nov23	Nov24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					154.12	191.02	218.64	239.23	254.09

Progress Software Quarterly Data
	May20	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24	May24	Aug24	Nov24	Feb25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															60.46	59.87	57.64	76.12	76.92

Competitive Comparison of Progress Software's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Progress Software's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

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Progress Software's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Progress Software's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Progress Software 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 Feb. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $270.6 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.

Progress Software  (NAS:PRGS) 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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