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Microlise Group (LSE:SAAS) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £42.30 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Microlise Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Microlise Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was £22.57 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was £42.30 Mil.


Microlise Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Microlise Group Annual Data
Trend Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
- 27.77 30.49 36.33 42.30

Microlise Group Semi-Annual Data
Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 15.77 17.10 19.22 19.73 22.57

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Microlise Group'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.


Microlise Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Microlise Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Microlise Group 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 £42.30 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.


Microlise Group  (LSE:SAAS) 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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Microlise Group (LSE:SAAS) Business Description

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Farrington Way, Eastwood, Nottingham, GBR, NG16 3AG
Microlise Group PLC is a provider of transportation management solutions to enterprise customers. It automates and optimizes critical processes such as scheduling, routing, driver performance monitoring, and resource allocation, while providing valuable, actionable real-time data.

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