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Choice Hotels International (FRA:CZH) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : €190 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Choice Hotels International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Choice Hotels International's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was €45 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was €190 Mil.


Choice Hotels International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Choice Hotels International'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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Choice Hotels International Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Choice Hotels International Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Choice Hotels International Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Choice Hotels International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Lodging subindustry, Choice Hotels International'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.


Choice Hotels International's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

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

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



Choice Hotels International 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 €190 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.


Choice Hotels International  (FRA:CZH) 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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Choice Hotels International (FRA:CZH) Business Description

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1 Choice Hotels Circle, Suite 400, Rockville, MD, USA, 20850
As of Dec. 31, 2022, Choice Hotels operated 628,000 rooms across 13 brands addressing the economy and midscale segments. Comfort Inn and Comfort Suites are the largest brands (27% of the company's total domestic rooms), while Ascend and Cambria (7% of total domestic rooms) are newer lifestyle and select-service brands. Choice added its 13th brand with the launch of extended-stay brand Everhome in January 2020. Choice closed on its Radisson acquisition in August 2022, which will add around 70,000 rooms. Franchises are 99% of total revenue, and the United States represents 79% of total rooms in 2022.

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