TCLAF (Transcontinental) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $419 Mil (TTM As of Apr. 2026)


TCLAF Transcontinental Inc TCLAF
58 GF Score
Price $3.99
GF Value $7.23
Valuation Significantly Undervalued
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What is Transcontinental Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Transcontinental TCLAF -0.87% 58 Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $419 Mil as of Apr. 2026. GuruFocus rates TCLAF with a GF Score™ of 58/100 and a GF Value™ of $7.23 (Significantly Undervalued). The stock has 5 warning signs investors should review.

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Transcontinental's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Apr. 2026 was $71 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2026 was $419 Mil.


Transcontinental  (OTCPK:TCLAF) 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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Transcontinental Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Transcontinental'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.

Transcontinental Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Transcontinental Annual Data
Trend Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25
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Transcontinental Quarterly Data
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TCLAF vs SW, PKG, IP: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Packaging & Containers subindustry, Transcontinental'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.


Transcontinental Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Packaging & Containers Industry

For the Packaging & Containers industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Transcontinental's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Transcontinental 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 Apr. 2026 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $419 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.

What does a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $419 Mil mean?
Transcontinental (TCLAF) has a Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $419 Mil as of Apr. 2026. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Transcontinental and its competitors.
Is Transcontinental's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense too high?
Transcontinental's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $419 Mil. Overall, Transcontinental has a GF Score™ of 58/100 and is considered Significantly Undervalued, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Transcontinental's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense compare to SW and PKG?
Transcontinental's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense of $419 Mil can be compared against companies in the Packaging & Containers industry. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for a Packaging & Containers company?
A good Selling, General, & Admin. Expense depends on the Packaging & Containers industry context. However, Selling, General, & Admin. Expense should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense mean?
A high Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. Selling, general and admin expense is the total cost for direct, indirect, general and administrative activities. View historical data on Transcontinental and its competitors. Transcontinental's current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $419 Mil. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Transcontinental stock overvalued right now?
Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Transcontinental (TCLAF) is currently considered Significantly Undervalued. The stock's GF Value™ is $7.23, compared to a current price of $3.99 — trading 44.7% below its estimated fair value. The current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $419 Mil. Transcontinental's overall GF Score™ is 58/100 with 5 warning signs to review. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Selling, General, & Admin. Expense calculated?
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is calculated from a company's financial statements. For Transcontinental (TCLAF), the current Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is $419 Mil as of Apr. 2026. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.

Is Transcontinental (TCLAF) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Transcontinental stock appears to be undervalued. The current stock price of $3.99 is trading 44.7% below its estimated GF Value™ of $7.23. GuruFocus considers Transcontinental to be Significantly Undervalued.

Key valuation signals for TCLAF:

  • Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: $419 Mil
  • GF Value™: $7.23 vs. price of $3.99 (44.7% below fair value)
  • GF Score™: 58/100 with 5 warning signs

No single metric tells the full story. See the TCLAF stock analysis page for a complete view including 30-year financials, guru trades, and insider activity.


Transcontinental Business Description

Address 1 Place Ville Marie, Suite 3240, Affaires Juridiques, A/s Caroline Hamel, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3B 0G1
Transcontinental Inc operates in flexible packaging, retail marketing services, printing, and French-language educational publishing across Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the United Kingdom. Its Packaging Sector provides extrusion, lamination, printing, and converting of flexible plastic products, including rollstock, labels, die cut lids, shrink films, bags, pouches, and coatings. The Retail Services and Printing Sector offers content solutions, marketing and media services, flyer printing, digital flyer solutions, in-store marketing and print solutions for newspapers, magazines and 4-colour books, and the Other column includes the Media Sector, which publishes print and digital educational, supplemental and professional books, along with head office costs and eliminations.
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