Press On
March 30, 2014 2 Comments
Revenue Questions
March 30, 2014 Leave a comment
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This post is on how to analyse the key revenue constituents of a profit and loss statement (P&L).
Some companies report the ‘total income’ earned by them within a year as ‘sales’. As an investor,its better for us if we take a company’s integral earnings or core operations only as sales and not the income that is generated from other operations. The latter could include items such income from sale of scrap, income from interest and dividends, forex gains, profit on sale of assets, export incentives and miscellaneous receipts, amongst others.While these items may not be a significant part of the total income, it is still a good practice to follow. In fact, it would be even better if we could further bifurcate such earnings under two heads – other operating income and other income. Details regarding total income are found in respective schedules.
Revenues are generated from sales of goods or services. For companies which have a presence in various businesses, it is a good practice idea to track the change in segment wise/ product wise / business wise revenues on a year on year basis. Look at how the income from each business segment (as a percentage of net sales) has changed over the years. This will give us a good idea how a company’s segments or businesses have been performing over a particular time frame. Read more of this post
IT And The Rupee
March 29, 2014 Leave a comment
Every 1% gain of the Rupee squeezes gross profit margin by 30bps for tech firms and the EPS falls by 2%
Why Go Private?
March 28, 2014 Leave a comment
Being the promoter of a public company is seen as prestigious.So why do promoters sometimes opt to make their company private again?The simple answer is often the possibility of Private Gains.Public share holders and promoters often have vastly different perspectives on making money,vastly different time horizons when it comes to harvesting gains,vastly different risk perceptions and holding power.Here is an example:
In early ’13,Dell had  a total market cap of about $22 billion. They also had about $11 billion in cash, which meant the stock market was valuing the entire business at $11 billion ($22 – 11). The company had a price-to-earnings multiple of about 8.5.
So the situation was that, if Michael Dell and private equity investors put in $2 bilion, used the cash on the company’s books and borrowed the remaining $9 billion, they could control the entire company without the hassle of having public shareholders.
The flexibility of not having public shareholders would enable Michael to do what has needed to be done for years, and that is massively streamline the company’s manufacturing and sales forces (probably through layoffs), re-focus the core PC business, grow the enterprise and consulting businesses, and make the company generally more Lenovo-like or IBM-like. Read more of this post
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