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Laurentian Bank of Canada (TSX:LB) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$404.8 Mil (TTM As of Apr. 2025)


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What is Laurentian Bank of Canada Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Laurentian Bank of Canada's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was C$92.4 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2025 was C$404.8 Mil.


Laurentian Bank of Canada Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Laurentian Bank of Canada'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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Laurentian Bank of Canada Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Laurentian Bank of Canada Annual Data
Trend Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24
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Laurentian Bank of Canada Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Laurentian Bank of Canada's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Laurentian Bank of Canada'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.


Laurentian Bank of Canada's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Laurentian Bank of Canada's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Laurentian Bank of Canada's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.


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Laurentian Bank of Canada 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. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$404.8 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.


Laurentian Bank of Canada  (TSX:LB) 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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Laurentian Bank of Canada Business Description

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1360, Boulevard Rene-Levesque Ouest, Suite 600, Secretariat Corporatif, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3G 0E5
Laurentian Bank of Canada provides personal banking, business banking and real estate and commercial financing to its personal, business, and institutional customers across Canada and the United States.Company has only 2 segments The Personal and Commercial Banking segment and The Capital Markets segment. The personal segment offers financial services to retail clients. The commercial banking segment provides financial services, commercial banking, real estate financing, and equipment and inventory financing to business clients. The firm launched LBC Digital, allowing it to expand its customer reach from coast to coast through a direct-to-customer channel. The Canadian geographic segment generates majority of the revenue for the company.
Executives
Michael T. Boychuk Director
Badih Schoueri Senior Officer
Nicholas Zelenczuk Director
Mike Mueller Director
Suzanne Gouin Director
Sarim Farooqi Senior Officer
Adam Swinemar Senior Officer
Andrea Elaine Bolger Director
William James Alexander Mason Senior Officer
David Lawrence Mowat Director
Stéphane Therrien Senior Officer