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DFS Furniture (LSE:DFS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £420 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is DFS Furniture Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. DFS Furniture's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was £210 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was £420 Mil.


DFS Furniture Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

DFS Furniture Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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DFS Furniture Semi-Annual Data
Jul13 Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 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 217.70 212.30 224.70 210.10 209.50

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

For the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances subindustry, DFS Furniture'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.


DFS Furniture's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances Industry

For the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, DFS Furniture's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



DFS Furniture 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 £420 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.


DFS Furniture  (LSE:DFS) 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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DFS Furniture (LSE:DFS) Business Description

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Adwick-le-Street, 1 Rockingham Way, Redhouse Interchange, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, GBR, DN6 7NA
DFS Furniture PLC is an upholstery retailer in the United Kingdom. It is engaged in designing, manufacturing, selling, delivering and installing a range of sofas, and other upholstered and furniture products. The company's segment includes DFS; Sofology and others. It generates maximum revenue from the DFS segment. DFS segment includes the retailing of upholstered furniture and related products through DFS and Dwell branded stores and websites.