1. Name of company: Costco 2. Total assets: 60.8 billion as of Aug 2021 3. % of assets that are fixed: 63.3% as of Aug 2021 4. % of assets that are current:36.7% as of Aug 2021 5. How much has the company grown over the years that are shown? From my understanding Costco has experienced steady growth over the years and has expanded its operations globally. Costco's total assets have consistently increased over the five-year period, from $42.307 billion in 2018 to $60.824 billion in 2022. This represents a growth of about 44.0% in total assets over the period. 6. Long-term debt: 7.97 billion in Aug 2021 7. How has the company financed its assets? According to the Consolidated Balance Sheets section of the Costco Annual Report, the company's total assets as of August 29, 2021, were $60.824 billion. Of this …show more content…
Review the verbal section. What seems to be the focus of management’s discussion? From page 21 the management discussion starts. Costco, from their mission statement and management discussion and any other platform for discussion mainly speaks about how much they value their members. Costco take pride in mentioning about their low prices, also low gas prices and how they try very hard to keep it that way for their members. I feel that they always focus on this and even in news articles, I hear hoe Costco is trying to keep their cost low for their members. Management also talks about the company's performance, operations, and strategic plans in fiscal year 2022. The management discussion includes a full examination of the company's financial statistics, including sales, net income, and profits per share. Management discusses the various challenges that affected the company's performance, such as the continuous COVID-19 outbreak, supply chain disruptions, and changes in consumer behavior. The discussion also covers the company's strategic goals, such as investments in e-commerce capabilities, retail expansion, and supply chain infrastructure
Financial Analysis The Home Depot has consistently produced excellent financial numbers, especially over the past few years. These results solidify them as the leader in the industry. Strong financials and pure size of the company are two contributing factors to success. As importantly, statistical analysis show The Home Depot to be an extremely well managed corporation. Total sales from Q3 2016 totaled $22.15 billion, an increase of 6.1% from the year prior.
It says Verizon invested 78.3% in their network equipment, 12.1% in land, buildings and building equipment and 9.6% in furniture and others. Furthermore, their Form 10-K shows their lowest and highest stock prices per share for 2017. They were $47.80 to $54.83 for the first quarter, $44.36 to $49.55 for the second quarter, $42.80 to $50.32 for the third quarter and $43.97 to $53.69 for the fourth quarter. The Form 10-K also lists all of Verizon’s Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. Lastly, it breaks down Verizon’s operating expenses and net income from 2013-2018 and there was a steady increase in net income from 2015-2017.
Since the company was founded as a corner store, the company’s business plan has always emphasized on expect more, pay less brand promise that sets it apart from its chief rival, Walmart. Although, Walmart is known for its low prices and offers a large selection to its customers; it’s customer service is often found to be nonexistent. This
Over the last few years, Costco has seen an exponential increase in the number of new memberships. While the Costco gained 2.3 million memberships in the financial year of 2009. Greater than 4 million customers signed up in the financial year of 2011. The Costco’s membership base saw a rise of 3 million in the financial year of 2012 and another 4.2 million in 2013. The strong exponential growth in the memberships continued in 2014 as well.
.15 4.7 .705 Northrop Grumman?s current assets increased from Dec. 2012 ($874 Mil) to Dec. 2013 ($955 Mil) but then declined from Dec. 2013 ($955 Mil) to Dec. 2014 ($773 Mil).
According to their lastest published financial statement , in 2013 they had $909,797,201 in assets, $592,740,013 in liabilities, and expended $4,199,618 for salary and benifits, $824,634 for administration, $726,920 for Professional Servcies, $20,149,055 for Projects Costs, and $226,818
It is believed that Wal-mart respect the idea of makes their customer shopping decision based on price comparison, experience and accessibility. What they could improvise is to come out with more plans with supplier to lower the products price so as to compete with their competitors. If Wal-mart is able to earn the profits by selling lowering their prices, so do their competitors. (Gallagher, S., 2008)That’s is why all along, Wal-mart always focus on this factors to attract more customers and also to prevent from losing their loyal customers. Due to the world is changing every minute in our life, there are many things that Wal-mart need to take note of.
INTRODUCTION An international retail company called Costco Wholesale Corporation runs a network of warehouse clubs that accept membership fees. The business was established in 1976 in California, and its headquarters in Issaquah, Washington. The foundation of Costco’s business strategy is the sale of a wide range of goods at competitive prices to its members who pay an annual membership fee. Around 4000 storekeeping units (Reuter, 2021) that carry Costco like Groceries, gadgets, appliances, apparel, furniture, and more are all available at its warehouses. The biggest selling product of Costco is toilet paper which sells more than a billion every year.
According to Appendix A which was taken from Costco’s 10Q filing for the quarter ended May 10, 2015 total revenue to date was $80.421 billion of which 2.17% came from membership fee and the remainder coming from net sales. This same filing indicates that Costco’s net income is $1.610 billion. According to Appendix B which was taken from the Costco’s Annual Report filed for the year ended August 31, 2014 indicates that Net Sales were $110.212 billion while Net Income was 2.058 billion. Both net sales and net income have increased since
Inventories of parts and supplies made up 7%, and short term investments made up 36% of total assets. Southwest’s accounts payable were equal to 14% in 2016, however this number has been decreasing. Long-term debt has decreased since 2015 from 9% to 7% in 2016. Southwest’s current ratio is .7, which means that the company may have critical difficulty meeting its current obligations. This suggests that Southwest does not have good financial health.
The overall structure of the corporation is a functional structure, this filters down throughout each individual store. At Costco 314, the store is overseen by one general manger, Paul Hogan. He is the one responsible for the overall outcome of the location. This makes the front end the most demanding
Their current ratio is 1.4% (total current assets/total current liabilities). According to the Risk Management Association of Financial Ratio Benchmarks, the current average ratio is 1.5%. In 2014, the current ratio for the firm was 1.46% while the average ratio in the industry (NAICS 311330) was 1.6%. The company’s net property and equipment in 2015 is worth 2.6 million dollars, a slight increase from 2014, which was 2.3 million. The company is considering taking on some debt to increase their production capabilities.
The Founder-CEO has a lot invested, Mr. Bezos owns 78.89 Million shares, and the net worth is 93.3 billion as of January 2nd, 2018. This
Finally, all units are to continue to drive cost reductions (Leadership, 2014). To assist with this goal, corporate purchasing has initiated competitive benchmarking with key suppliers in order to help facilities improve cost structures. Overall, management believes that revenue generation, earnings improvement, and cost reductions can be driven at all levels within the
(Advantage) Wal-Mart, as many other companies, is known for their advertising slogan or mission statement. Wal-Mart’s evolving mission statement’s main purpose is to promote their low prices in an attempt to attract customers to the idea of saving money by shopping at Wal-Mart. It began with “Always low prices, Always” which 19 years later became “Save Money, Live Better.” The large corporation claims that it produces products that consumers want to buy (at always low prices) creating the epitome of one stop shopping. This idea of low prices is the product of Wal-Mart’s foreign importers.