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Cava Group (Cava Group) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $78.2 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cava 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. Cava Group's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $24.7 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $78.2 Mil.


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

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

Cava Group Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
64.79 70.04 101.49

Cava Group Quarterly Data
Sep21 Dec21 Apr22 Sep22 Dec22 Apr23 Sep23 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 16.55 16.27 29.02 24.47 24.67

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

For the Restaurants subindustry, Cava 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.


Cava Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Cava Group's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Cava 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 quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $78.2 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.


Cava Group  (NYSE:CAVA) 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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Cava Group (Cava Group) Business Description

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Address
14 Ridge Square NW, Suite 500,, Washington, DC, USA, 20016
Cava Group Inc owns and operates a chain of restaurants. It is the category-defining Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant brand, bringing together healthful food and bold, satisfying flavors at scale. The company's operations are conducted as two reportable segments: CAVA and Zoes Kitchen.
Executives
Philippe Amouyal director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Jennifer Somers officer: Chief Operations Officer C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Kenneth Robert Bertram officer: CLO & Secretary 3404 CHOCO CHASE, MECHNICSBURG NY 17055
Tricia K. Tolivar officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Todd Klein director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Theodoros Xenohristos director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Swan Hospitality 4 Llc 10 percent owner 108 LOUDOUN STREET SW, LEESBURG VA 20175
Act Iii Holdings Llc 10 percent owner 23 PRESCOTT STREET, BROOKLINE MA 02446
Adam David Phillips officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Benjamin Felt director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
David Bosserman director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Brett Schulman director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO and President C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Cava Act Iii Trust, Llc 10 percent owner 23 PRESCOTT STREET, BROOKLINE MA 02446
Cava Act Iii, Llc 10 percent owner 23 PRESCOTT STREET, BROOKLINE MA 02446
Todd D Klein director 1717 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, N.W., 10TH FLOOR, WASHINGTON DC 20036

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