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Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSX:CP) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$-256 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Canadian Pacific Kansas City Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was C$-88 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was C$-256 Mil.


Canadian Pacific Kansas City Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Canadian Pacific Kansas City'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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Canadian Pacific Kansas City Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
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Canadian Pacific Kansas City Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Canadian Pacific Kansas City's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Railroads subindustry, Canadian Pacific Kansas City'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.


Canadian Pacific Kansas City's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Canadian Pacific Kansas City's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Canadian Pacific Kansas City's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Canadian Pacific Kansas City 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 C$-256 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.


Canadian Pacific Kansas City  (TSX:CP) 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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Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSX:CP) Business Description

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Address
7550 Ogden Dale Road S.E., Calgary, AB, CAN, T2C 4X9
Canadian Pacific Kansas City is a Class-1 railroad operating on track that spans across most of Canada and into parts of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. Following the April 2023 Kansas City Southern merger, CP operates new single-line-haul services from Canada and the Upper Midwest down through Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, and into Mexico. It also hauls cross border and intra Mexico freight via operating concessions on 3,300 miles of rail in Mexico. CP hauls shipments of grain, intermodal containers, energy products (like crude and frac sand), chemicals, plastics, coal, fertilizer and potash, automotive products, and a diverse mix of other merchandise.
Executives
Keith E. Creel Senior Officer