Global Cultural Issues Affecting Chevron Outside the United States Jerry Teague ETH/316 July 29, 2013 Ed McCullough Global Cultural Issues Affecting Chevron outside the United States Chevron ranked number three recently in the Cable News Network (CNN) list of the world’s largest companies as of 2012, up the previous year’s number ten ranking. Presently, the company headquarters is in San Ramon, California, with more than 60,000 employees worldwide including around 4,000 service station employees. Chevron recently sold its Ireland refinery and some assets in the Caribbean and Africa. It bought Atlas Energy and is confident about its prospects in the Gulf. Chevron conducts business worldwide as one of the global integrated energy companies.
| Patterson-uti energy(Nasdaq: pten) | BUY | EPS (2012) = $2.50 | Target Price (2012): $28.00 | P/E (ttm) = 8.53 | Qualitative Risk Assessment:Above Average Risk | | Report Date | March 28, 2012 | | Recent Price | $17.55 | | 52-Week Range | $15.06 – $34.09 | | 52-Week %Δ | -55.82% | | Avg. Vol. (3m) | 4.102,740 | | Shares Out. (mrq) | 183,295,000 | | Sector | Basic Materials | | Industry | Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration | Investment ThesisPatterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN) is the second-largest land-based oil and gas drilling and exploration company in North America. Patterson operates within three business segments: Contract Drilling, Pressure Pumping and Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production.
Research Methodologies Paper July 16, 2012 MKT/450 Ted Framan Research Methodologies Given the nature and ever-growing complexity of today’s global market place, it is imperative that organizations are equipped with appropriate and effective market research in order to make the right marketing decisions. The importance of marketing research is immeasurable; it helps marketing managers make better judgments that take into account cross country differences and similarities. In addition, marketing research helps marketing managers gain support from the local subsidiaries for proposed marketing decisions (Keegan & Green, pp. 196-221, 2008). American company XYZ, Inc. has decided to market their top product, all-natural
As PepsiCo and Riordan work in many areas across the world, understanding this helps define the different personal value patterns and effectively work toward cross-cultural teams to bridge the gaps. As PepsiCo continues development globally, somber issues arise as international commerce differs from domestic commerce. Given that an establishment working across boundaries must contract with the forces of domestic, foreign, and international power that persuade the existence, and expansion of a company. PepisCo issues include the controllable and uncontrollable forces influencing trade. These forces encompass raw materials, instant capital, and people.
DSO = Receivables / Ave. sales per day Receivables= DSO * Ave. sales per day = 20 * 20,000 Receivables= $400,000 (3-2) Debt Ratio: Vigo Vacations has an equity multiplier of 2.5. The company’s assets are financed with some combination of long-term debt and common equity. What is the company’s debt ratio? Debt ratio = 1 – (1 / Equity multiplier) Debt ratio = 1 – (1/2.5) = 1 - .40 = .60 Debt ratio = 60% (3-3) Market/Book Ratio: Winston Washers’s stock price is $75 per share. Winston has $10 billion in total assets.
Equity ratio = 1/2.5 = .40 Debt ratio + equity ratio = 1 1-equity ratio = debt ratio 1-.40 = .60 or 60% 3-3 Winston Washers’s stock price is $75 per share. Winston has $10 billion in total assets. Its balance sheet shows $1 billion in current liabilities, $3 billion in long-term debt, and $6 billion in common equity. It has 800 million shares of common stock outstanding. What is Winston’s market/book ratio?
Costco is one of the largest retailers in the United States and seventh largest in the world, with total income of $1,709 million. In this paper, I will review the annual report for 2012. I will provide answers to the following questions: * Identify and explain the main sections of the Costco’s 2012 annual report. * Discuss the key factors that influence Costco‘s financial performance during Fiscal Year 2012. * Discuss the primary assets held by Costco.
STA Travel Competitive Analysis Normally, the companies in travel industry have to compete very hard in order to gain profit and to be in the top rank of market share since there are many companies who work related to this industry. STA travel is also a company which is in this industry and it always has to find out good strategies to compete with other leading companies such as Thomas Cook, Trailfinder and etc. It is interesting to know why Thomas Cook can be the leader of all company in the world. It is because the main strategy of Thomas Cook is to sale charter packages where two or more components of travel, such as flights, hotels, transfers and rep services, are bundled together in advance and sold to customers through brochures and agents in stores, online through various websites or over the phone from call centre. Moreover, the company is now planning to merge their U.K. travel and foreign-exchange units in a deal that will create a 1,200-store chain and save more than 35 million pounds ($56 million) a year.
It is also contributed to United States oil industry by seventeenth percent of produce oil, as said by (Pam Barrett pg. 43) “Oil is by far the largest of Alaska’s industries”, and (R. Warren Anderson ) “Former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton summed up its success in 2003 that Today the pipeline produces 17 percent of our domestic petroleum. It has pumped nearly 14 billion barrels of oil and $400 billion into our economy”, it gave jobs for several thousand people, Alyeska workers and sub-contractors. The pipeline has help Alaska which is the most heavily tax state to the most tax-free state. Alaska has profit more than half of the income from the pipeline has produces and the other profit goes to the United States.
According to yahoo finance, the industry leader in P/E is Banco De Oro Unibank, Incorporated with a 0.00. Overall, Citigroup is a strong company that could be included as one of the top companies in the industry. Their rankings are generally in the top quarter percent. Exxon Mobil Corp. Market Capitalization: 355.70B Trailing P/E/: 12.49 Forward P/E: 11.07 PEG Ratio: 1.00 Profit Margin: 8.27% Total Cash: 12.26B Short Ratio: 1.40 Dividend Payout Ratio: 30.00% How does this compare? Exxon Mobil Corp is in the top 6 in all of the top major integrated oil and gas companies by Market Cap.