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Klaviyo (Klaviyo) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $636.1 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Klaviyo's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $131.1 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $636.1 Mil.


Klaviyo Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Klaviyo Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
219.58 295.68 588.66

Klaviyo Quarterly Data
Dec21 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 83.60 87.02 277.73 140.30 131.05

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Klaviyo'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.


Klaviyo's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Klaviyo's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Klaviyo 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 $636.1 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.


Klaviyo  (NYSE:KVYO) 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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Klaviyo (Klaviyo) Business Description

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125 Summer Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, USA, 02110
Klaviyo Inc is a technology company that provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to enable its customers to send the right messages at the right time across email, short message service and push notifications, more accurately measure and predict performance, and deploy specific actions and campaigns. The platform combines proprietary data and application layers into one solution with machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. It is focused on marketing automation within eCommerce as its first application use case. It generates revenue through the sale of subscriptions to its customers for the use of its platform. Subscription plans are tiered based on the number of consumer profiles stored on the Company's platform and the number of emails and SMS messages sent.
Executives
Astral Capital Abeh, Llc 10 percent owner 36 DENNY ROAD, CHESTNUT HILL MA 02467
Accomplice Fund I, L.p. 10 percent owner 56 WAREHAM STREET, FLOOR 3, BOSTON MA 02118
Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund Ix-a, L.p. 10 percent owner 222 BERKELEY STREET 18TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Shopify Strategic Holdings 3 Llc 10 percent owner 151 O'CONNOR STREET, GROUND FLOOR, OTTAWA A6 K2P 2L8
Shopify Inc. 10 percent owner 151 O'CONNOR STREET, GROUND FLOOR, OTTAWA A6 K2P 2L8
Jennifer Ceran director C/O QUOTIENT TECHNOLOGY INC., 400 LOGUE AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
Accel Leaders Fund Ii L.p. 10 percent owner 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Jon Karlen 10 percent owner 36 DENNY ROAD, CHESTNUT HILL MA 02467
Accel Leaders Fund Ii Strategic Partners L.p. 10 percent owner 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Accel Growth Fund V Strategic Partners L.p. 10 percent owner 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Accel Growth Fund V Investors (2019) L.l.c. 10 percent owner 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Accel Leaders Fund Ii Investors (2019) L.l.c. 10 percent owner 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Summit Partners Co-invest (kiwi), Lp 10 percent owner 222 BERKELEY STREET, 18TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Accomplices Associates I, Llc 10 percent owner 56 WAREHAM STREET, 3RD FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02118
Andrew Bialecki director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer KLAVIYO, INC., 125 SUMMER STREET, 6TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02110

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