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Arabian Contracting Services Co (SAU:4071) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : ﷼65 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Arabian Contracting Services Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Arabian Contracting Services Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ﷼37 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was ﷼65 Mil.


Arabian Contracting Services Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Arabian Contracting Services Co'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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Arabian Contracting Services Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Arabian Contracting Services Co Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
8.44 31.93 47.88 83.58 70.64

Arabian Contracting Services Co Quarterly Data
Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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Competitive Comparison of Arabian Contracting Services Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Arabian Contracting Services Co'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.


Arabian Contracting Services Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Arabian Contracting Services Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Arabian Contracting Services Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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Arabian Contracting Services Co 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 ﷼65 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.


Arabian Contracting Services Co  (SAU:4071) 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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Arabian Contracting Services Co Business Description

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Address
Olaya Towers, Tower B, Floor 33, P.O.Box 55905, Riyadh, SAU, 11544
Arabian Contracting Services Co is an outdoor advertising solution provider, offering clients expertise across a multitude of platforms and disciplines. It is mainly engaged in establishing and operating outdoor advertising billboards, including roadside and indoor advertisements. The group's operating segments are Advertising and Others. The Advertising segment, which generates a majority of its revenue, is engaged in the provision of indoor and outdoor advertisements. The Others segment includes all types of printing work and retail sales by mail. Geographically, the group derives maximum revenue from its business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and also has a presence in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

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