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Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$21,907 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2025)


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What is Royal 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. Royal Bank of Canada's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jan. 2025 was C$5,987 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2025 was C$21,907 Mil.


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

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

Royal Bank of Canada Annual Data
Trend Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Royal Bank of Canada Quarterly Data
Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25
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Competitive Comparison of Royal Bank of Canada's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Banks - Diversified subindustry, Royal 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.


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

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

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


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Royal 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 Jan. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$21,907 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.


Royal Bank of Canada  (TSX:RY) 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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Royal Bank of Canada Business Description

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Address
1 Place Ville Marie, Corporate Secretary's Department, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3B 3A9
Royal Bank of Canada is one of the two largest banks in Canada, with over CAD 2 trillion in assets. It is a diversified financial services company, offering personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, corporate banking, and capital markets services. The bank is concentrated in Canada and has dominant market shares. RBC also has wealth and capital market businesses in the US, UK, and other countries. RBC is a top 15 investment bank globally.
Executives
David Ian Mckay Director, Senior Officer
Graeme Ashley Hepworth Senior Officer
Jennifer Kristine Publicover Senior Officer
Douglas Antony Guzman Senior Officer
Erica Lesley Nielsen Senior Officer
Neil Mclaughlin Senior Officer
Simon T.p. Ridgway Director, Senior Officer
Toos Noshir Daruvala Director
Nadine Genevieve Ahn Senior Officer
Bruce Washington Ross Senior Officer
Helena Gottschling Senior Officer
Rod Bolger Senior Officer
Alex Douglas Mcgregor Senior Officer
Michael Dobbins Senior Officer
Jeffery William Yabuki Director