Cisco Systems (XSWX:CSCO) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense: CHF11,276 Mil (TTM As of Apr. 2026)

Cisco Systems  (XSWX:CSCO) 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.

Cisco Systems Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Related Terms

The historical data trend for Cisco Systems'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.

Cisco Systems Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Cisco Systems Annual Data
	Trend	Jul16	Jul17	Jul18	Jul19	Jul20	Jul21	Jul22	Jul23	Jul24	Jul25
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					10,468.45	10,851.54	10,779.88	11,749.93	11,151.05

Cisco Systems Quarterly Data
	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24	Apr24	Jul24	Oct24	Jan25	Apr25	Jul25	Oct25	Jan26	Apr26
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2,887.10	2,815.32	2,874.19	2,817.37	2,769.20

XSWX:CSCO vs CIEN, MSI, LITE: Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Comparison

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Cisco Systems'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.

Cisco Systems Selling, General, & Admin. Expense vs Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Cisco Systems's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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

Cisco Systems 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 CHF11,276 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.

Cisco Systems Business Description