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AMP (ASX:AMP) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : A$581 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is AMP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. AMP's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$300 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$581 Mil.


AMP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for AMP'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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AMP Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

AMP Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1,323.00 1,211.00 1,215.00 612.00 581.00

AMP Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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 619.00 288.00 324.00 281.00 300.00

Competitive Comparison of AMP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Financial Conglomerates subindustry, AMP'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.


AMP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, AMP's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



AMP 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$581 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.


AMP  (ASX:AMP) 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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AMP (ASX:AMP) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
50 Bridge Street, AMP Building, Sydney, NSW, AUS, 2000
At its roots, AMP is a wealth manager, providing financial advice via Australia's second-largest network of aligned financial advisors. It has a vertically integrated business model: AMP advisors can invest client funds into superfunds and non-super investments manufactured by AMP through the firm's own platforms, though advisors are free to recommend non-AMP products and third party platforms to their clients. The firm also has a small wealth presence in New Zealand with about 72 advisors. In addition, AMP also has a retail banking business focused on deposit taking and residential mortgages.