The gearing of Rolls Royce can give us an insight into how well they well be able to financially cope with the expansion and wether or not it will be capable of doing so. Gearing shows where the source of a businesses captial derives from , wether from long term loans (debt) or wether from share capital or reserves. It is calculated by dividing the businesses long term loans by the total sum of its total equity and its non current liabilities which is then multiplied by 100. Between the years 2012 and 2013 Rolls Royces gearing has increased from 11.28% in 2012 to 16.24% in 2013. Although their gearing has slightly increased the
Running head: Dollar General 1 Dollar General Columbia College RUNNING HEAD: Dollar General 2 Dollar General Dollar General is the leader when it comes to discount dollar stores with an annual profit of more than $12.73 billion a year. The major competition in the dollar discount stores for Dollar General in order are Family Dollar and the Dollar Tree. Another key player in discount stores is Walmart, although not a dollar discount store Walmart dominates all markets with $419.24 billion in revenue. 2011 brought on a year of expansion for Dollar General with plans to open up 650 new stores and remodel another 550 creating 6.000 new jobs in additional employees. Dollar General in owned by Koldberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P (KKR) who own more than 79% of all shares in Dollar General.
Blaine Kitchenware represents 10% of the U.S market share of the industry (market = $2.3bn) but is also present in foreign market. The company’s recent strategy moves include increasing its presence on the foreign market, growing its beverage preparation appliance segment and competing in higher-end segment with higher price point. Despite the company’s profitability (net income of $53.6m on revenue of $342m), the company lacks of organic growth and all of its recent growth is due to acquisition. When comparing the ROE of the industry, one can observe that Blaine Kitchenware (11%) is significantly below the average (25.9%). In recent years, the company increased its number of outstanding share to finance its acquisitions, which raised the payout ratio to more than 50% in 2006.
These benefits are often referred to as arising from synergy which accrues to the shareholders of the target as well as to those of the bidder. VF Corporation is offered something in excess of what they perceive to be the current value of those shares. In spite of the eurozone financial crisis, VF’s revenues rose by 20 per cent in constant dollar terms in Europe, while sales in Asia surged 43 per cent. This is the right time to take the Timberland to the next level, with expected 2011 revenues of $1.6bn, over half of which are generated internationally. For the full-year 2010, Timberland reported revenue of $1.4bn, an increase of 11.2% over the prior year and up 11.7% on a constant dollar basis.
Further it increased both sales and net income by 54% and 28% vs. 1993, but the company has a problem of a liquidity and a shortage of cash. One of the biggest indicators of this problem is almost double decrease in quick ratio in 2 years (Exhibit 1). This means that the company has a decrement of current assets (not considering inventory) comparing to current liabilities by 0.66. Another factor which helps us understand the reason for shortage is Cash Cycle, which consists of Average Collection days and Average Inventory days subtracted by Average Payment days. This indicator is increasing dramatically by almost 11 days in two years, because of increase of Collection and Inventory days by 16 and minor increase of Payables days by 5 (Exhibit 2 and 3).
LinkedIn generated over $970 million in revenue and over $21 million in net income that same year. In order to conclude whether Linkedin is a favorable investment, four valuation models were used for this analysis. Price-to-earnings (P/E) valuation, price-to-sales (P/S) valuation, discounted cash flow valuation, and average-revenue-per-user (ARPU). Three of these four valuation models provide evidence that the company is undervalued, and therefore is a good investment. We recognize that there are plenty of other factors that can affect their valuation currently and in the future, however, the analysis shows that today LinkedIn is a good company to invest in.
In this case it is from 4.6 days in 2008 to 5.41 days in 2010. This is quite good according to other industry where maturity of invoice is usually more than 30 days. But what is more important comparing to trade-creditors which is usually 21day it is almost quarter of the time. That means that Ryanair can accumulate four times more cash that they need to cover the obligations at that time. This improves quite well their cash flow.
In total, Overstock.com earned $1.05 billion in revenue for FY 2010 which was an increase of 23.4% from the previous year. In terms of liquidity, the company has $12.66 million in operating cash flow. The composition of net sales is approximately 18.4% for the Direct Segment and 80.8% of net sales for Fulfillment Partner Business. The direct segment refers to sales directly to individual consumers from certain offline channels and Overstock.com’s leased warehouses, where purchased surplus inventory is stored and re-sold at a premium on the website. The Fulfillment Partner Business segment refers a 3rd party liaison between customers in search of low prices and retailers & manufacturers that are looking to liquidate.
Mr. Fastow generated companies that were designed to absorb any of Enron’s financial losses. This allowed Enron to appear to be doing much better financially than it really was (Madsen & Vance, 2009). By August of 2000 Enron’s stock was trading at $90.00 per share. This was an all time high for the company. However, by November of 2001 Enron’s stock had plunged to $1.00 per share.
After academic research documented superior performance by value stocks in a multitude of countries, DFA began to create a variety of international value-stock and small-stock investment funds. The company was highly successful, despite missing out on the great 1990s growth-stock boom. DFA's assets under management grew from $8 billion to $40 billion between 1991 and 2002. With value stocks having performed well in the first two years of the new decade, DFA is experiencing continued growth of its investor base and is now seeking new areas in which it can add value for investors while continuing to claim to have no special "stock-picking" ability. Dimensional Fund Advisors Case 1.