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Coupang (Coupang) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $6,293 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Coupang's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $1,889 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $6,293 Mil.


Coupang Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Coupang Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 1,675.15 2,502.23 4,445.00 4,822.00 5,717.00

Coupang Quarterly Data
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 1,313.00 1,376.15 1,478.30 1,549.40 1,889.00

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

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Coupang'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.


Coupang's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Coupang's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Coupang 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 $6,293 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.


Coupang  (NYSE:CPNG) 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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Coupang (Coupang) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
720 Olive Way, Suite 600, Seattle, WA, USA, 05510
Coupang Inc is an e-commerce company. The company sells apparel, electronics, footwear, food products, furniture, nutritional supplements, and other products. Its segments include Product Commerce and Developing Offerings. The company generates maximum revenue from the Product Commerce segment. Product Commerce primarily includes core retail (owned inventory) and marketplace offerings (third-party merchants) and Rocket Fresh, fresh grocery offering, as well as advertising products associated with these offerings.
Executives
Tae Jung Kim officer: See Remarks 720 OLIVE WAY, SUITE 600, SEATTLE WA 98101
Svf Investments (uk) Ltd 10 percent owner 69 GROSVENOR STREET, LONDON X0 W1K3JP
Benjamin Sun director C/O COUPANG, INC., TOWER 730, 570, SONGPA-DAERO, SONGPA-GU, SEOUL M5 05510
Greenoaks Capital Partners Llc director, 10 percent owner, other: See Remarks 4 ORINDA WAY BUILDING C, SUITE 200, ORINDA CA 94563
Pedro Franceschi director C/O COUPANG, INC., TOWER 730, 570, SONGPA-DAERO,SONGPA-GU, SEOUL M5 05510
Hanseung Kang officer: Rep Director, Business Mngmt C/O COUPANG, INC., TOWER 730, 570, SONGPA-DAERO, SONGPA-GU, SEOUL M5 05510
Ambereen Toubassy director 720 OLIVE WAY, SUITE 600, SEATTLE WA 98101
Harold Rogers officer: See Remarks C/O COUPANG, INC., TOWER 730, 570, SONGPA-DAERO, SONGPA-GU, SEOUL M5 05510
Jonathan D. Lee officer: Chief Accounting Officer ONE PARK PLACE, SUITE 600, DUBLIN CA 94568
Thuan Pham officer: Chief Technology Officer 1455 MARKET STREET 4TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Neil Mehta director 535 PACIFIC AVENUE, 4TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94133
Kevin M Warsh director 55 GLENLAKE PARKWAY, NE, ATLANTA GA 30328
Michael Parker officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O COUPANG, INC., TOWER 730, 570, SONGPA-DAERO, SONGPA-GU, SEOUL M5 05510
Jason Child director C/O SPLUNK INC., 270 BRANNAN ST., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Gaurav Anand officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O COUPANG, INC., TOWER 730, 570, SONGPA-DAERO, SONGPA-GU, SEOUL M5 05510

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