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Root (ROOT) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $230 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Root Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Root's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $72 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $230 Mil.


Root Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Root Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 218.20 367.80 175.40 132.60 205.30

Root Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 47.50 52.30 51.50 54.00 72.00

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

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Root'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.


Root's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Root's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Root 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $230 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.


Root  (NAS:ROOT) 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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Root Business Description

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Address
80 East Rich Street, Suite 500, Columbus, OH, USA, 43215
Root Inc develops and launches a direct-to-consumer personal automobile insurance and mobile technology company. It generates revenue from the sales of auto insurance policies within the United States.
Executives
Meyer Malka 10 percent owner 364 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Mahtiyar Bonakdarpour officer: Chief Technology Officer 80 E. RICH STREET, SUITE 500, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Alexander E. Timm director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer GOHEALTH, INC., 214 WEST HURON STREET, CHICAGO IL 60654
Doug Ulman director C/O ROOT, INC., 80 E RICH STREET, SUITE 500, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Jonathan Allison officer: Chief Administrative Officer ROOT, INC., 80 E. RICH STREET, SUITE 500, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Julie Szudarek director 80 E. RICH STREET, SUITE 500, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Beth A Birnbaum director C/O 111 RIVER STREET, HOBOKEN NJ 07030
Donna Dorsey director ROOT, INC., 80 E. RICH STREET, SUITE 500, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Bullfrog Capital Gp, Ltd. 10 percent owner 364 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Bullfrog Capital, L.p. 10 percent owner 364 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Robert H. Bateman officer: Chief Financial Officer ONE HARTFORD PLAZA, HARTFORD CT 06155
Daniel H Rosenthal director, officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ROOT, INC., 80 E RICH STREET, SUITE 500, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Lawrence A. Hilsheimer director 425 WINTER ROAD, DELAWARE OH 43015
Hemal Shah officer: Chief Product Officer 80 E. RICH STREET, SUITE 500, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Carvana Co. 10 percent owner 300 E. RIO SALADO PARKWAY, TEMPE AZ 85281