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Trainline (LSE:TRN) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £249.7 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Trainline Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Trainline's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Feb. 2024 was £121.4 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was £249.7 Mil.


Trainline Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Trainline Annual Data
Trend Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23 Feb24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 198.89 148.38 154.20 224.59 249.71

Trainline Semi-Annual Data
Feb17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24
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 88.02 111.87 112.72 128.26 121.45

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

For the Travel Services subindustry, Trainline'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.


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

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

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



Trainline 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. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £249.7 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.


Trainline  (LSE:TRN) 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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Trainline (LSE:TRN) Business Description

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120 Holborn, 3rd Floor, London, GBR, EC1N 2TD
Trainline PLC is an independent rail and coach travel platform selling rail and coach tickets to millions of travellers worldwide, enabling them to seamlessly search, book and manage their journeys all in one place via its website and mobile app. The company's segment includes UK Consumer; International Consumer and Trainline Solutions. It generates maximum revenue from the UK Consumer segment.