Hsb Case Analysis

turning over inventory, the company is often able to sell their products and pay suppliers before the invoice is due, even when the company pays early to benefit from early payment discounts. This frees up capital which allows Costco to finance new inventory purchases with supplier payment terms. Costco then passes

Wal-Mart Corp has had very inconsistent asset-to-equity ratio form year to year which makes it difficult to draw any conclusion regarding investment. Such inconsistency could be an indication of

Using what I know about Costco and what the business is about I think Costco would be the right investment for me, because as I said earlier my family shops there. Even though Costco stock is going down in November, from the trend in the previous years shows that in early December the Costco stock is likely to go up and help me make some money. Another reason, why Costco is a good investment is that they have sound financials and there is a very low percent that Costco would go bankrupt, because the make over 150 billion dollars a year. Similarly, they sell food and people need food to survive so long as there are people on earth there would be a very low chance for Costco to go bankrupt. Using the blended approach helped me chose Costco to invest in, and now that I have invested in Costco I haven’t made much money. But like I said above the trend shows that the Costco stock tend to go up in early

Iraida (PSA) received a call from Ileana who requested the HCSS to leave. As per Ileana, the HCSS had an attitude and they weren’t getting along. She requested the HCSS to leave her at her MD office and she’d be taken home by transportation. Ileana alleged the HCSS was talking badly about her to the MD office staff (HCSS denies this). Ileana was informed that we wouldn’t be able to leave her alone. SC was informed of situation and attempted to speak to Ileana over the phone. Ileana couldn’t speak since she was being seen by the MD. Aide was able to redirect Ileana and calm her down. She allowed the HCSS to accompany her back home. HCSS is refusing to return to the case.

In analyzing the common-size balance sheet for Applebee's, it is noted that the total current assets has jumped from 11% to 14% of the total assets. The total assets for Applebee's has jumped 6% from 2000 to 2001 driven by increased in the total current assets of 28%. Of those 28% increase, they consisted of 88% increase in the Cash & Equivalents (increased of $10.6 millions) caused by the decreased in the Capital Stock repurchasing in 2001 by Applebee's. The repurchase of capital stock has decreased by 31% as noted from the year-to-year percentage changes of the Statement of Cash Flow which equivalent to about $11 million dollars. The other current assets increased was from the

Starbucks shares have gone up and down during the past 3 weeks. “The results, announced after markets closed, sent Starbucks shares down 3.5% in after-hours trading.”(Weise,E) I bought 100 stocks from Starbucks; it first started off at 55.37 and increased to 56.31. I expected for Starbucks performance to be the best, but its stocks are unreliable. Their percentage week change fluctuates. When I initially started doing research on Starbucks the week percentage was at -1.02% and has reach to 2.41%, but later went down to .66%. Their stocks have been unsteady and their weakness is that the prices of their coffee is expensive. “By contrast, a year of drinking at Starbucks, based on two $2 cups a day, will run more than $1,400--not including any snacks

The purpose of this paper is to advise analyze the financial statements of Dillard’s, Inc. in order to recommend whether or not my client should invest $1 million in the large retail company. I will compare the financial statements of Dillard’s, Inc. its competitor, Kohl’s Corporation. Investing in retail can be risky because a retail company’s performance is very heavily influenced by factors that have nothing to do with the actual company such as the overall performance of the economy or the weather during the holiday shopping season. There is, however, potential for profitability within the retail sector. Based on my analysis, I recommend that the client should not invest in Dillard’s, Inc. for the following reasons. First, Dillard’s has experience a decline in net income in the last three years. Second, liquidity ratios indicate that they could face possible liquidity constraints in the future. Third, long-term debt paying ability ratios indicate that the company could have trouble paying off the principal of its current debt obligations. Fourth, the profitability ratios are well below industry averages, suggesting that there are more profitable companies to invest in within the industry. And finally, Investor analysis ratios provide mixed opinion of the future performance of the company. I conclude that retail can be a profitable industry to invest in if an investor has the risk tolerance and risk capacity to withstand the uncertainty, but neither Dillard’s

We compared both of the companies income statements and balance sheets. Both of these companies are making a profit although, Costco is much bigger and making much more of a profit than Weis. Knowing that both of these companies are making a profit and are successful we have to turn to certain ratios so that we know for sure that this is a good investment for Costco. The first ratio we will look at is the current ratio. What this ratio will tell us and the shareholder at Costco is the ability to pay short term and long term obligations. The higher the ratio the better the company is with paying back short term and long term expenses. When the ratio falls below one this means that the company's liabilities is greater than their assets. Over the last few Costco has had an decent current ratio but last year they had some trouble being able to pay their obligations. Their ratio fell below one which means that their liabilities became greater than their assets. The way they can turn this around is by acquiring Weis. Weis has had a solid current ratio for the last three years. They are well above the one mark which makes them valuable to Costco. Once they

It is important for stockholders to continuously re-evaluate their investments. Although some investors do this more frequently and thoroughly than others, the majority of shareholders do so at least once each year. Therefore, Torres’ desire to update her analysis in order to determine whether Costco was still operating efficiently makes perfect sense. After thorough examination, my analysis proves that Costco remains one of the industry’s leading competitors and there seems to be no reason for Torres to sell her shares as long as she wishes to retain holdings of a

One interesting observation is that the commercial paper listed in FY 2008 $275 million was eliminated in FY 2009 and replaced by a significant increase in long-term debt. The current portion of long-term debt increased from $24 million in 2008 to $356 million in 2009 (Nordstrom, 2009, p. 37).

The statement of cash flows outlines some of the changes to the capital structure. The company added $164.5 million in a consolidated loan facility, and it paid out $138.1 million in dividends. There were no share buybacks during the year. The company states in the annual report (p.4) that it intends to maintain a conservative gearing ratio. The company in this section attributes its increased borrowings to projects and opportunities on which it has embarked. These investments lie within the integrated retail, franchise and property system. One of the

Information gathered from Costco’s balance sheet show that it has steadily grew a larger cash reserve. It has a higher rate of outstanding receivables and has sharply increased the rate of inventory kept in stock from 16% in 1997 to 27% in 2001. Another interesting fact to notice is the high increase in property, plants, and equipment increase in proportion to assets, from 31% in 1997 to 58% in 2001. Costco has a much higher ratio of accounts payable in 2001 compared to 1997, which can be explained by the many investments and purchases of property, land, and plans. The amount of short-term liabilities to assets has more than doubled, from 20% to 41%. This may be a troublesome trend if it continues since they

Based on the Time Interest Earned Ratio Landry’s ability to pay interest bills from profit earned decreased. In 2002 Landry’s could pay their interest bill just over 13 times from earnings before interest tax. In 2003 Landry’s ability to pay interest bills was almost cut in-half to 7 times. We think that as a result of the decrease in ability to pay interest bills, creditors could be concerned about these findings.

There are two possible sources of discrepancies we would like to disclose in this introduction: financial histories and restructuring charges. The first source of some discrepancies throughout the paper is a lack of some financial history. In the 1998 Darden Restaurants Annual Report, there was some inconsistency in whether history from FY 1996 was used or not. For this reason, we have been forced to omit FY 1996 in some

Next, I invested in a popular food and beverage company, PepsiCo Inc. PepsiCo is comprised of multiple consumer segments in North America such as: Frito Lay, Quaker Foods, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, Quaker Chewy granola bars, Cap n Crunch and Life cereals, and Rice-A-Roni side dishes. The popular beverage segment includes beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods such as Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, etc. Since PepsiCo is worldwide, it has a handful of segments that provide consumer goods to various country and serves wholesale distributors. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York and expanded worldwide first entering Japan an Eastern Europe in 1966 (PepsiCo). The company was established by a merger with Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay and continues to add more brand names to its company today. On March 22nd, 2014 the net income applicable to common shares was 1,216,000,000 this number is a slight decrease from the 1,742,000,000 net income applicable to common shares on December 28, 2013 (Yahoo Finance). Earnings this year have been good with a positive numerical percentage of 3.76%. In the past year PepsiCo has invested five billion dollars in Mexico. This five-year investment plan Focuses on Innovation and Brand