Staples Business Analysis

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The main impact that is driving down Staples’ stocks is its struggle to keep up the foot traffic in its stores. Staples used to be the go-to and popular choice to get your school supplies for the new year. However, that is changing in the recent years with its struggle to compete with its competitors like Walmart; who has very low prices and sells just about everything else in its store making it the one-stop shop that parents love. The Back-to-School season is the main season for Staples to earn the most revenue. In Staples’ Third Quarter of 2015 Earning Release, they said their sales were down 6% compared to the third quarter of 2014, which transcribes as 5.6 billion dollars down in sales. Since this has been a steady trend in the last few years. Staples have announced in its 2014 Annual Report, they “...plan to close at least 225 retail store in North America by the end of the fiscal year or 2015” as part of their restructuring plan. This plan is suppose to help offset the

The current assets relative to total assets for Staples decreases from 2008 to 2009 and slightly increased in 2010. This happened even though there was a stable rise in current assets from 2008 to 2010. The reason for this as reflected in the vertical analysis is due to the high merchandize inventory that was retained in 2008. On the contrary current liabilities increased relatively from 2008 at 28.9% to 2009 at 37.1% thereafter decreasing remarkably in 2010 at 27.6%. This can be clearly explained on the vertical analysis table using current liability emanating from the commercial paper line item. In 2008 and 2010 where current liabilities are low relatively, there were no liabilities against commercial paper. Considering the account receivable and account payable variables in this analysis the trend depicts that from 2008 through 20010, where the highest account receivable was established, the lowest account payable was incurred and vice versa. Account receivable increased from 2008 at 9.1% to 2009 at 14.1% meanwhile accounts payable decreased from 2008 at 17.3% to 2009 at 15.1%.

3.) Strong presence in high margin health services business. In addition to UnitedHealth Group’s leadership position in the health benefits market segment, UnitedHealth Group has strong information and technology based health services platform through its business segments which is Ingenix, OptumHealth and PrescriptionSolutions. The “CNN MONEY” (2012) website states Ingenix is one of the largest health information, technology and consulting companies in the world. The UnitedHealth Group derived $2.3 billion of revenues from Ingenix which contributed $284 million (excluding $200 million in goodwill impairment and business line deposition charges) of operating profit, and an operating margin of 12.1% during FY2010.

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Staples provide their customers with the information on how they’re doing for each of these strategies. They have graphs like the ones I post above. This shows how Staples is achieving their goals slowly. I have presented graphs early in this report that shows some of their progress that they have had. I think that providing this information in a graph as the years go by is a great way to see what is going on. Lets them be able to look at the information and figure out why something happened the way it is.

Office Depot. Office Depot is known as the second best in the office supplies industry right behind Staples and they also began in 1986 (Hurtibise, 2015). Their first store was in Lauderdale, Florida and there after continued to expand through the southern state. Also, just like Staples they started out by selling the bare office essentials and later as well move further in expanding their product line to draw the attention to gain new customers. In 1996, Staples attempted to purchase Office Depot, but the opportunity was turned down by the FTC and in 2015 both companies attempted to merge; but sadly that was also denied by the FTC stating that both combined as one would be too influential (Hurtibise, 2015). However, in 2013 an approved merger

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