Stock Performance Of Nike, Starbucks And Whole Foods

Nike’s target market for their shoes, clothes and other accessories are males and females between 18 and 35 years old. Nike’s Competitive market has expanded and dominated in the international market. Nike disburses TV ads during professional and college sports events, prime-time programs, and late-night TV programs. A financial analysis helps us compare a company’s current performance with its past performance Gives us an idea of how the entire industry is performing as well as liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, and leverage ratios will give us a good understanding of how Nike, Adidas Group, and Under Armour are performing.

Hi Jill, I used Starbucks as one of the companies I wrote about in this week's written assignment. While it's nice to treat myself to go out and get coffee sometimes, I barely ever do because, aside from the price, I hate the waste that these places produce. Think about how many people Starbucks serves a day worldwide, and the majority of those cups are going to be thrown away. Now, they do have reusable cups that you can bring in to be filled, but many people, myself included, don't remember to do that. Or it's such a spontaneous trip to the coffee shop, that you can't always think ahead to have your reusable cup with you. So it was nice to read about how Starbucks is making their cups out of materials that are certified recyclable material in most

Because caffeine negatively affects human bodies. Also, the company can use reusable containers instead of plastics and boxes to reduce wastes and environmental pollution. For the company to create a good image, Starbucks coffee company can start a waste management or charity campaign to help the society or contribute in reducing wastes, protecting the environment plantation of forests. This will increase the market share for the company because most people will be happy to shop with a company which cares about the society and the environment they live in. it will also create a good image and reputation for the company giving it more opportunities to create a leading and well-known brand and win its

As a financial analyst at the H. J. Heinz Company (Heinz) in its North American Consumer Products division, Solomon Sheppard, together with his co-workers, reviewed investment proposals involving a wide range of food products. Most discussions in his office focused on the potential performance of new products and reasonableness of cash flow projections. But as the company finished its 2010 fiscal year at the end of April—with financial markets still in turmoil from the onset of the recession that started at the end of 2007—the central topic of discussion was

Looking at this table you can see that Dunkin Donuts and Chipotle has more green applications inside their stores that reduce more water and energy consumption. Starbucks needs to add more of these attributes to help their store to help them reduce their consumption. Even though Starbucks have more green stores than Chipotle and Dunkin Donuts, even a international present with over 750 stores that are LEED certified. These stores do not have sufficient applications inside them as compared to Chipotle and Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks so strive to add more of these applications inside their green stores. Using wind power in their Gurnee, IL store, Chipotle has reduced electricity usage by 10% (Austin Energy) , which is more than Starbucks 7.5%

Whole Foods strategy involves opening high-end grocery stores in upscale locations, offering organics foods and specialty items, providing a more enjoyable shopping experience for shoppers, and selling more expensive grocery items than traditional grocery stores. By comparison, Kroger’s strategy is to offer price reduction on grocery items, compete based on price which reduces profit margins, and offer a high-end shopping experience with low prices on staples. Due to the strategies of both companies, the profitability ratios are affected. By competing on price, Kroger has lower net income and higher sales. Lower net income and higher sales shrinks profit margins and gross margins. On the other hand, Whole Foods specialty food items are priced at a premium; therefore, net income is larger compared to sales. A larger net income results in a higher profit margin and higher gross margin.

The first Starbucks opened in 1971, making the company 44 years old. In 2015 they were named the most ethical company by Ethisphere. Starbucks issues a book called “Standards of Business Conduct” to every employee when they start work. It outlines all of their policies and how an employee needs to act. They also required to go to trainings for compliance and ethics and are encouraged to report any issues or situations that emerge. They are also proud members of the ECOA (Ethics & Compliance Officer Association) and the Northwest Ethics Network. Starbucks is also a part of a plethora of organizations that give back to the local community and the world. All of Starbucks products like coffee and tea are fair trade, meaning that fair prices are paid for goods to developing countries. Economic transparency is also required in the company meaning that suppliers have to submit evidence of payment made throughout the supply chain to insure that a fair price is given to the farmer. Starbucks also has third-party verifiers who help to protect the rights of workers and their safety. They also comply with the minimum wage requirements and forbid child and forced labor. Third-party verifiers also protect the management of waste and water quality along with the conservation of water and energy. All of this is considered ethical because it protects both the employee and the customer, along with the

When looking at the 2004 DuPont analysis, you see that not only has profit margin increased every year, but it is more than 2% better than the industry average. That being said, Krispy Kreme does not utilize its assets as efficiently as its competitors. This potentially troubling because of the fact that they have gone through aggressive growth in stores recently. Is this an indication that these stores are not generating the sales necessary to justify the investment, or at least as well as its competitors might be able to? Finally the equity multiplier comes in below the industry average. To us this means that Krispy Kreme does not utilize its leverage as effectively as the competition. Perhaps it would be to Krispy Kreme’s benefit to increase leverage and invest in order to increase growth and earnings in a similar manner to its competition. Overall, we believe that Krispy Kreme is moderately

Marketed as ‘America’s healthiest grocery store’ the company has successfully grown to 408 stores across the world with sales of $14 billion in 2014 (Whole Foods Market, 2015). The firm is positioned as an upmarket grocery due to the emphasis on natural, organic origins, and as a result are able to charge a premium for their products. Through efficiently running its operations and stores, Whole Foods are able to maintain healthy 4.02% profit margins (Financial Times, 2015) and operating margins well above the American grocery store industry average at 6.58% (Bloomberg, 2015). Looking at 2015’s quarter 1 figures it is clear to see that Whole Foods have had a hugely successful year with sales of $4.7 billion, up 10% from the same period last year. Furthermore, they opened 9 new stores and have signed a further 11 new leases.

However during the last reported years the company kept a stable reserve of cash and increased its short term investments especially in the last year from 5.16 to 8.78 of total assets. While Nike had decreased gross receivable over the years and from 23.1 in FY 08 to 22.6 in FY 09 of total assets, it considerably increased its provisions for doubtful accounts. This might be a precautionary measure on part of the company in the face of the financial crisis the occurred in the last reported year, which eventually resulted in decreasing the company’s net receivables from 22.4 to 21.7 of total assets in FY 09. Nike’s inventory has been slightly fluctuating over the reported years. The clear decrease in the company’s inventory in FY 09 cannot be explained by more sales as sales grew by only 2% as seen from the income statement. Therefore, the less inventory in the last year might be caused by the Company’s slowing down of its manufacturing process for fear of not being to sell its finished goods due to the

clear assessment of the financial health of the company: NIKE International. Just knowing that this company chose a symbol that references the winged goddess of victory seems to have been a premonition for the designer of the ‘swoosh’ as well as the founder, Phil Knight, of NIKE. (Hinker,)

At this time, Nike presents an interesting investment opportunity. With the consistent longevity of dividend increases coupled with the attractive ROE ratio in comparison to competitors, Nike appears to be a great investment but that may not be the whole story. With an intrinsic value calculated from the discounted cash flow model of $87.84, Nike stock currently seems overpriced. While Nike has a strong history of consistent revenues and profits, which it is poised to continue in the future, and is a global power in its industry, Nike’s recent acquisition of Converse is driving up stock price. In the eyes of Graham this would be an unattractive investment. However, if the gap between stock price and intrinsic vale were to close, I believe this company to be a solid long-term investment in the eyes of Buffett.

The company that I am writing about is Starbucks, the international coffee shop chain. The company's financial statements for this analysis are from the FY2011 Annual Report and 10-K. The company has 10787 stores in the United States, of which 38% are franchised and the remainder are company-owned. The franchise model is more common when the company operates internationally. There are 6216 Starbucks stores internationally and of these 63% are franchises, with just 37% company-owned. The franchise model for international expansion has been utilized to help Starbucks expand quickly in foreign countries and to mitigate foreign political risk and to ensure that the product/service offering is tailored to local tastes (Thompson, 2012). The company is now in the process of buying back some overseas franchise stores in order to retain more profits for itself (Franchise Press, 2011). This paper will take a look at the company's most recent annual report to analyze the financial statements.

Starbucks extends their coffee experience to everyone: kids, teenagers and adults. Part of their success comes from their ability to create new products that fit the culture of the country. In Japan, for instance, Starbucks launched green tea lattes, which later became popular in other countries (Allison). Starbucks is well established in countries like Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom. In the US alone, Starbucks sells 4 million cups of coffee per day (Horovitz). Their products and services have transformed the way customers view coffee. Changing the way customers order, Starbucks makes it very chic to purchase custom drinks. Starbucks is like no other coffee shop: the dimmed lights

With the development of economic globalization, “fast food” becomes a more and more substantial industry in the business world, which adapts to the pace of people’s life. Each organization spares every effort to stand forward the competition due to the fierce competition. In this article, we focus on the “Starbucks”, a prevailing coffee manufacturer in recent years.