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Express Scripts Holding Co (Express Scripts Holding Co) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $3,581 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2018)


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What is Express Scripts Holding Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Express Scripts Holding Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2018 was $863 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 was $3,581 Mil.


Express Scripts Holding Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Express Scripts Holding Co'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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Express Scripts Holding Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Express Scripts Holding Co Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4,580.70 4,322.70 4,062.60 3,532.70 3,268.10

Express Scripts Holding Co Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Express Scripts Holding Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Healthcare Plans subindustry, Express Scripts Holding Co'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.


Express Scripts Holding Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Healthcare Plans Industry

For the Healthcare Plans industry and Healthcare sector, Express Scripts Holding Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Express Scripts Holding Co 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 Sep. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3,581 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.


Express Scripts Holding Co  (NAS:ESRX) 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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Express Scripts Holding Co (Express Scripts Holding Co) Business Description

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Express Scripts is the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the United States. Through its mail-order pharmacy and network of retail pharmacies, Express Scripts processes approximately 1.3 billion adjusted prescriptions annually for its payer clients.