SLMNP.PFD (Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $303.68 Mil (TTM As of May. 2018)

Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers Annual Data
	Trend	Aug07	Aug08	Aug09	Aug10	Aug11	Aug12	Aug13	Aug14	Aug15	Aug16
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					193.50	205.37	242.70	276.24	296.73

Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers Quarterly Data
	Aug13	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16	May16	Aug16	Nov16	Feb17	May17	Aug17	Nov17	Feb18	May18
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															65.27	73.76	75.13	78.36	76.44

Competitive Comparison of Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Chemicals subindustry, Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers'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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Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers 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 May. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $303.68 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.

Lyondellbasell Advanced Polymers  (OTCPK:SLMNP.PFD) 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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