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Spirit Pub Co (LSE:SPRT) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0.0 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2015)


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What is Spirit Pub 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. Spirit Pub Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Feb. 2015 was £0.0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2015 was £0.0 Mil.


Spirit Pub Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Spirit Pub Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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* 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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Spirit Pub Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Spirit Pub Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Leisure subindustry, Spirit Pub 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.


Spirit Pub Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Spirit Pub Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Spirit Pub 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 Feb. 2015 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.0 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.


Spirit Pub Co  (LSE:SPRT) 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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Spirit Pub Co (LSE:SPRT) Business Description

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Spirit Pub Co PLC was incorporated in England. The Company's trading activities are divided into two divisions; namely a Managed division and a Leased division. The Managed division involves pubs that are directly managed by the Group, and a Leased division which involves the granting of leases to licensees who run the pub as their own business, paying rent to the Group, purchasing beer and other drinks from the Group and entering into profit sharing arrangements for income from leisure machines. The Company holds 794 Managed pubs and 433 Leased pubs. The group operates solely in the United Kingdom.