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Hipgnosis Songs Fund (LSE:SONG) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £8.15 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Hipgnosis Songs Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Hipgnosis Songs Fund's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was £3.33 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was £8.15 Mil.


Hipgnosis Songs Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Hipgnosis Songs Fund'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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Hipgnosis Songs Fund Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Annual Data
Trend Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
- 3.97 9.13 8.73 8.26

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Semi-Annual Data
Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 4.83 3.69 3.68 4.82 3.33

Competitive Comparison of Hipgnosis Songs Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Entertainment subindustry, Hipgnosis Songs Fund'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.


Hipgnosis Songs Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Hipgnosis Songs Fund's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hipgnosis Songs Fund 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 Sep. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £8.15 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.


Hipgnosis Songs Fund  (LSE:SONG) 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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Hipgnosis Songs Fund (LSE:SONG) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Trafalgar Court, Les Banques, P.O. Box 286, Floor 2, Saint Peter Port, GGY, GY1 4LY
Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd is an investment company. The company's investment objective is to provide shareholders with an attractive and growing level of income, together with the potential for capital growth. It offers to play exposure to songs and associated musical intellectual property rights. Hipgnosis Songs Fund serves customers globally.

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