Lazard Global Total Return & Fd (Lazard Global Total Return & Fd) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.78 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)

Lazard Global Total Return & Fd Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Lazard Global Total Return & Fd Semi-Annual Data
	Dec17	Jun18	Dec18	Jun19	Dec19	Jun20	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense	Get a 7-Day Free Trial								0.40	0.54	0.37	0.34	0.45

Competitive Comparison of Lazard Global Total Return & Fd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Lazard Global Total Return & Fd'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.

Lazard Global Total Return & Fd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Lazard Global Total Return & Fd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lazard Global Total Return & Fd's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.

Lazard Global Total Return & Fd 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 Dec. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.78 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.

Lazard Global Total Return & Fd  (NYSE:LGI) 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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