1. Liquidity Ratios: This ratio used to measure the company's ability to pay off its short-term debts as they come due by using the company's current or quick assets, • Current ratio= current assets current liabilities AVP= 1.34 ULTA= 2.9 REVLON= 15.86 • Quick ratio = ( current assets - inventory) current liabilities AVON= .94 ULTA= 1.12 REVLON= 15.26 The safe rate for current ratio is 1 or up, that means the current assets can cover the current liabilities, we see that the current ratio for AVP is 1.34 which means it is it has ability to cover the current liabilities once they become due. Quick ratio refers to the company ability to use its cash or cash equivalent to pay its current liability without using its inventory, Avon Products company …show more content…
Solvency Ratios This ratio used to measure the company’s ability to pay its debt indicates The lower a company's solvency ratio, the greater the probability that it will default on its debt obligations. • Debt to Equity = Total debt Total equity AVON= -4.5 ULTA= .65 REVLON= -5.9 This ratio represent the financial efficiency being used by the company and including both short term and long term debt. A Debt to Equity ratio of 2 indicates that the company gets two-thirds of its capital financing from debt and one-third from shareholder equity, so it borrows twice funding as it owns, this ratio as benchmark shouldn’t be more than 2 to avoid higher interest expense, and in some cases could affect the company credit score. • Debt to assets = Total debt Total assets This ratio indicate that the company gets all its capital finance from debt with negative equity This ratio is comparing between the total debt and the total assets to show the company’s ability to cover its debt using its assets, ratio greater than 1 shows that a big portion of debt is funded by assets, which means, the company has more liabilities than assets AVON= = 1.12 ULTA= .39 REVLON= 1.2 Avon products company has debt more than its …show more content…
Efficiency Ratios The efficiency ratio is used to measure how the company uses its assets and liabilities internally, these ratios to measure the performance in short term. • Accounts Receivable Turnover This ratio used to measure the firm's effectiveness in extending credit and in collecting debts. The receivables turnover ratio is an activity ratio measuring how successfully a In collecting its AR during the year, if the company has AR turnover 2 that means the AR turned over two times during the year. Accounts Receivable Turnover= Credit sales AR average (assume that 75% sales are credit) AVON= 9.1 ULTA= 41.1 REVLON= 4.12 • Fixed Asset Turnover, Reflecting how efficiently a company has used its assets to generate revenue, a higher ratio indicate of greater efficiency in managing and investing fixed-asset. Fixed Asset Turnover= Net sales/ net assets EVON= 1.63 ULTA= 1.9 REVLON= .77 • Inventory turnover Inventory turnover is a ratio showing how many times a company's inventory is replaced over a specific period of time, the higher ratio the more success is the company in selling its inventory. Inventory turnover = sales AVON = 2.3 ULTA= 1.4 REVLON=
Debt - Equity ratio was included to show that both companies are financed with a large portion of debt, yet remain
Whereas, the lower the percentage, there is less money owed and/or borrowed, and its equity position is stronger (Investopedia, 2010). Formula: Total Liabilities Debit ratio = --------------------- Total Asset Robertwood Johnson University Hospital Year 2014
Growth strategy: Waitrose being a part of the John Lewis Group has a growth strategy of profits proliferation. It aims to grow its sales and profit margins with its new growth strategies and setting up the new small convenience Waitrose stores which are a boom as per the market demands. The new stores to be opened in the short term would be Uttoxeter (Staffordshire), High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire), Solihull (West Midlands), all of which will open in the spring, with Truro (Cornwall) and Worcester following in the summer. The foundations for Waitrose’s success in 2028 are being laid now in response to the changes in society, workplace and retail.
Firms with excessive liabilities may run into severe trouble, even if they are otherwise successful entities. In finance, the term leverage refers to the ration between the firm 's liabilities and equity and is calculated by dividing total liability by shareholder equity. Note that some analysts prefer to use only long-term liabilities, which are payment obligations coming due in one year or more, when calculating leverage. The more common leverage formula, however, incorporates all liabilities. If stockholder equity is less than total liability, the firm 's leverage ratio will be greater than 1.
I. Strengths of TARGET Corporation Target Corporation is one of the largest and oldest public discount retailing company operate in the United States. The company founded in 1902’s by George Dayton (as also known as Dayton Dry Goods in 1962’s). Target store has a huge store footprint and enjoys considerable brand recognition. Target’s portfolio of owned and exclusive brands is also its strength, which allow retailer to a valuable differentiating lover in high competitive retail environment.
The following example will provide further explanation: some entities, for instance a supermarket, may have a lot of cash trade. Due to this reason, it is a possibility that their current assets ratio of less than 2 : 1. This is not likely to be an issue for them because sufficient amounts of cash is probably collected daily through the checkouts. On the other hand, the airline industry, a low current ratio may not necessarily mean that a company is in peril. Reason being is that a large portion of the high current liabilities may relate to the pre-purchased tickets, which the airline can honour for a relatively low marginal cost.
TRADER JOE’S – INDUVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1 Part 1 – Introduction What Joe Coulombe did was opening an ordinary supermarket into the industry but the strategies he took were separating the Trader Joe’s from its rivals. What he did was to offer products targeting sophisticated costumers who were searching for good bargains. The offerings of Trader Joe’s were so unique which are not found at rival shelfs. Another crucial decision he made was to take advantage of recent environmental movements such as the rising trend of costumers searching organic foods. The company also decided on selling private labelled products with lower prices than other brands of the same product.
The ROE is often seen as the primary measure of a company’s performance as it measures the profitability of shareholder equity by measuring how much the shareholders earned for their investment in the company and this tells common shareholders to know how effectively their money is being employed. The higher the ratio percentage, the more efficient management is in utilizing its equity base and the better return is to investors. However, the higher ROE does not necessarily mean better financial performance of the company. But rather, the higher ROE can be the result of high financial leverage, but too high financial leverage is dangerous for a company 's
1. Introduction Procter & Gamble Co., also known as P&G, is an American multinational consumer products’ company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded by William Procter and James Gamble, both from the United Kingdom. Its products include pet foods, cleaning agents and personal care products. In 2014, P&G recorded $83.1 billion in sales. Procter and Gamble established in India in 1964 and serves more than 650 million consumers in India.
INTRODUCTION: The management 's strategic leadership approach is to guide the training and motivate them to improve their skills through the exchange of knowledge to analyse the internal and external business environment and make decisions that can add value to the company and to the interested parties. The management delegates authority to employees. Make your decision by setting goals and objectives based on the mission and vision of the organization and establishing strategies to achieve these goals and objectives.
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.
PUBLIC COMPANY Also called as “Public-traded Company”, a company that sells stock to the public and the stock is traded on an exchange. It has also the ability to increase access to the debt markets and to sell future equity stakes. When it comes to qualification shares, the directors of a public company must sign an undertaking to attain the qualification shares of the company. (Investopedia)
Turnover rates also ties into Attrition and retention
INTRODUCTION Abercrombie & Fitch is an American fashion retailing company headed by president and CEO Michael Jeffries. Abercrombie & Fitch brand focuses on offering apparel that reflected the youthful lifestyle for a target audience, which was college students, designed to encourage teamwork and creativity On February 2007, A&F retailer operated 944 stores in 49 States, District of Columbia and Canada. Furthermore, A&F currently operates four other brands, which are: A&F, Abercrombie Kids, Hollister Company, and RUEHL. With the running of those four brands, the company is collectively targeting consumers of 7 through 35. David T. Abercrombie founded the company in 1892, A&T managers promoted it as: ”The Finest Sporting Goods Store in the world”.
Now, Cost of equity (Re) = 8.95% + 1.21×7.43% = 17.94% While determining the cost of debt we again used 8.95%,30 year U.S. Government Interest Rate given in Table B as the risk free rate plus 1.10% debt rate premium above Government rate, which is given in Table A. Cost of debt (Rd) = 8.95% + 1.10% =