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Sanderson Design Group (LSE:SDG) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £68.9 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Sanderson Design 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. Sanderson Design Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jan. 2024 was £34.0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was £68.9 Mil.


Sanderson Design Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sanderson Design 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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Sanderson Design Group Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Sanderson Design Group Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Sanderson Design Group Semi-Annual Data
Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
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Competitive Comparison of Sanderson Design Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances subindustry, Sanderson Design 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.


Sanderson Design Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances Industry

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

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



Sanderson Design 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 Jan. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £68.9 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.


Sanderson Design Group  (LSE:SDG) 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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Sanderson Design Group (LSE:SDG) Business Description

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Address
Oxford Road, Chalfont House, Denham, GBR, UB9 4DX
Sanderson Design Group PLC is a luxury interior furnishings company that designs, manufactures, and markets wallpapers and fabrics together with a wide range of ancillary interior products. The reportable divisions are Brands and Manufacturing. Brands division comprising the design, marketing, sales, distribution, and licensing activities of Sanderson, Morris and Co., Harlequin, Anthology, Clarke, and Clarke and Studio G brands operated from the United Kingdom and its foreign subsidiaries in the United States, France, Russia, and Germany. The manufacturing division comprises the wallcovering and printed fabric manufacturing businesses operated by Anstey and Standfast respectively. The majority of the revenue is generated from the Brands division.