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Mercantile Investment Trust (The) (LSE:MRC) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £1.54 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Mercantile Investment Trust (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Mercantile Investment Trust (The)'s selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jan. 2024 was £0.75 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was £1.54 Mil.


Mercantile Investment Trust (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Mercantile Investment Trust (The)'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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Mercantile Investment Trust (The) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Mercantile Investment Trust (The) Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.11 1.40 1.44 1.41 1.54

Mercantile Investment Trust (The) Semi-Annual Data
Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
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 0.64 0.63 0.78 0.79 0.75

Competitive Comparison of Mercantile Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Asset Management subindustry, Mercantile Investment Trust (The)'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.


Mercantile Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Mercantile Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Mercantile Investment Trust (The)'s Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Mercantile Investment Trust (The) 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 Jan. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £1.54 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.


Mercantile Investment Trust (The)  (LSE:MRC) 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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Mercantile Investment Trust (The) (LSE:MRC) Business Description

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Address
60 Victoria Embankment, London, GBR, EC4Y 0JP
Mercantile Investment Trust (The) PLC is an investment trust managed by JP Morgan Funds Limited. It aims to achieve capital growth through investing in a diversified portfolio of UK medium and smaller companies. The trust's investment portfolio consists of various sectors such as Consumer Services, Financials, Industrial, Technology, Health Care, Basic Materials, Telecommunications, Utilities, Consumer Goods, Real Estate, and Oil & Gas.