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Advantage Solutions (Advantage Solutions) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $280 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Advantage Solutions Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Advantage Solutions's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $90 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $280 Mil.


Advantage Solutions Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Advantage Solutions Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 175.37 306.28 168.09 187.50 265.09

Advantage Solutions Quarterly Data
Mar17 Dec18 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 56.29 53.29 76.07 60.65 89.66

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

For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Advantage Solutions'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.


Advantage Solutions's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Advantage Solutions's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Advantage Solutions 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 Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $280 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.


Advantage Solutions  (NAS:ADV) 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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Advantage Solutions (Advantage Solutions) Business Description

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Address
15310 Barranca Parkway, Suite 100, Irvine, CA, USA, 92618
Advantage Solutions Inc is the provider of outsourced sales and marketing solutions to consumer goods companies and retailers. It has a technology-enabled platform of sales and marketing services like headquarter sales, retail merchandising, in-store sampling, digital commerce, and shopper marketing. For brands and retailers of all sizes, the firm helps to get the right products on the shelf and into the hands of consumers. The company helps its clients to sell more while spending less. Advantage has offices throughout North America and strategic investments in select markets throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe through which it services the global needs of multinational, regional, and local manufacturers. Its services are provided across two segments sales and marketing.
Executives
James M Kilts director 120 PARK AVE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Brian K. Ratzan director 3 GREENWICH OFFICE PARK, 2ND FLOOR, GREENWICH CT 06831
Christopher Growe officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS INC., 15310 BARRANCA PARKWAY, SUITE 100, IRVINE CA 92618
David A Peacock director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 190 CARONDELET PLAZA, CLAYTON MO 63105
Adam Levyn director 11111 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD, SUITE 2000, LOS ANGELES CA 90025
Jody L Macedonio director 2711 N HASKELL AVENUE, STE 3400, DALLAS TX 75204
Christopher J Baldwin director THE HERSHEY COMPANY, 100 CRYSTAL A DRIVE, HERSHEY PA 17033
Deborah Poole director ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS INC., 1530 BARRANCA PARKWAY, SUITE 100, IRVINE CA 92618
Adam Nebesar director 200 CLARENDON STREET, BOSTON MA 02116
Tanya L Domier director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O NORDSTROM, INC., 1617 SIXTH AVENUE, SEATTLE WA 98101
Jill L Griffin officer: President & CCO C/O ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS INC., 18100 VON KARMAN AVENUE, SUITE 1000, IRVINE CA 92612
Dean Kaye officer: CFO - North America ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS INC., 18100 VON KARMAN AVENUE, SUITE 1000, IRVINE CA 92612
Brian Stevens officer: CFO & COO C/O ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS INC., 18100 VON KARMAN AVENUE, SUITE 1000, IRVINE CA 92612
David J West director 100 CRYSTAL A DRIVE, HERSHEY PA 17033
Robin Manherz director ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS INC., 1530 BARRANCA PARKWAY, SUITE 100, IRVINE CA 92618