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P&I Personal & Informatik AG (XTER:PUI) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €19.5 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2015)


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What is P&I Personal & Informatik AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. P&I Personal & Informatik AG's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was €4.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 was €19.5 Mil.


P&I Personal & Informatik AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for P&I Personal & Informatik AG'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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P&I Personal & Informatik AG Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

P&I Personal & Informatik AG Annual Data
Trend Mar06 Mar07 Mar08 Mar09 Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 14.39 14.94 15.26 18.33 18.77

P&I Personal & Informatik AG Quarterly Data
Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.08 4.03 4.85 5.82 4.84

Competitive Comparison of P&I Personal & Informatik AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Software - Application subindustry, P&I Personal & Informatik AG'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.


P&I Personal & Informatik AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, P&I Personal & Informatik AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where P&I Personal & Informatik AG's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



P&I Personal & Informatik AG 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 Jun. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €19.5 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.


P&I Personal & Informatik AG  (XTER:PUI) 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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P&I Personal & Informatik AG (XTER:PUI) Business Description

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P&I Personal & Informatik AG is a German holding Company engaged in the creation, sale and maintenance and dealings in Electronic Data Processing equipment and software.

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