BNS Split II (TSX:BSC.PR.C.PFD) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$0.27 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2020)

BNS Split II Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

BNS Split II Annual Data
	Trend	Sep10	Sep11	Sep12	Sep13	Sep14	Sep15	Sep16	Sep17	Sep18	Sep19
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.28	0.26	0.25	0.27	0.27

BNS Split II Semi-Annual Data
	Sep10	Mar11	Sep11	Mar12	Sep12	Mar13	Sep13	Mar14	Sep14	Mar15	Sep15	Mar16	Sep16	Mar17	Sep17	Mar18	Sep18	Mar19	Sep19	Mar20
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.12	0.15	0.13	0.15	0.13

Competitive Comparison of BNS Split II's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, BNS Split II'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.

BNS Split II's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, BNS Split II's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

BNS Split II 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. 2020 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$0.27 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.

BNS Split II  (TSX:BSC.PR.C.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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