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Tongcheng Travel Holdings (HKSE:00780) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : HK$5,692 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Tongcheng Travel Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Tongcheng Travel Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$1,358 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$5,692 Mil.


Tongcheng Travel Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Tongcheng Travel Holdings'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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Tongcheng Travel Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Tongcheng Travel Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 3,158.80 3,144.96 4,418.02 3,911.17 5,670.16

Tongcheng Travel Holdings Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 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 946.47 1,319.53 1,438.87 1,574.82 1,358.39

Competitive Comparison of Tongcheng Travel Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Travel Services subindustry, Tongcheng Travel Holdings'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.


Tongcheng Travel Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Tongcheng Travel Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Tongcheng Travel Holdings 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 HK$5,692 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.


Tongcheng Travel Holdings  (HKSE:00780) 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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Tongcheng Travel Holdings (HKSE:00780) Business Description

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No. 188, Yuxin Road, Tongcheng Mansion, Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu, CHN
Tongcheng Travel is an online travel agency platform that provides booking services for hotel and ticketing in China. It generated 88% of its revenue from accommodation reservations and transportation ticketing in the third quarter of 2022. The rest came from advertising and in-house software sales. The platform provides both online and offline services in the form of call centers. Tongcheng Travel was formed from the merger of Tongcheng Network and eLong in 2018. It is currently 21.38% owned by Tencent and 20.86% by Trip.com. Tongcheng targets lower-tier cities and as of 2021, 86.7% of its users are from non-first-tier cities in China and 61.7% of new paying users on Weixin were from Tier 3 or below cities in China. The company competes with Trip.com, Alibaba's Fliggy, and Meituan.

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