Kroger Company SEC 10-K Analysis The Kroger Company was founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1902 and is now headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. As of January 30, 2016, Kroger is one of the largest retailers in the world based on annual retail sales; they also manufacture some of their own food for sale in company supermarkets. Their primary revenues are earned at point of sale to customers in Kroger stores and fuel centers. As of January 30, 2016, Kroger operated, either directly or through its satellite companies, 2,778 retail food stores under a variety of local companies, 1,387 of which had fuel centers.
“ With the promising look of Kohl’s future of new outlet stores and on many other calculations I have indicated that Kohl’s has proved be more profitable, solvent and liquid than JCPenney. Kohl’s net profit margin puts them ahead of JCPenney by a landslide, although their gross profit percentage is relatively close, Kohl’s leading with 36.13% to compared to JCPenneys 36.05%. Meaning that Kohl’s makes .08% more money from selling their good/services with subtracting the cost it takes to produce the good/service. A high gross profit often
Financial Analysis The Home Depot has consistently produced excellent financial numbers, especially over the past few years. These results solidify them as the leader in the industry. Strong financials and pure size of the company are two contributing factors to success. As importantly, statistical analysis show The Home Depot to be an extremely well managed corporation. Total sales from Q3 2016 totaled $22.15 billion, an increase of 6.1% from the year prior.
They have the best quality of products yet leaving them a bit more expensive than other brands. Macy's has been consistently subject to high impairment charges, store closing costs and division restructuring costs with an estimated revenue increase of 5.2% in 2011 (Macys, 2010). While Sears are known for their “Ad Your Way program”, a tool that will help the customer to follow a product that displays the content and customized recommendations. With this program the customer will able to receive notification either by mail or phone if that product will be on sale. The company operates 894 broad line stores that are primarily mall-based (Sears, 2012).
Week Two A. What type of product does it sell? American Eagle Outfitters is a retail company that strives to reach out to 15 to 25-year-old men and women. They offer high quality clothing, accessories, and personal care products at very affordable prices. Pants, shorts, sweaters, fleece, outerwear, graphic tee shirts, footwear, and various styles of accessories are the types of products they offer (Bethel University, 2017). B.
Retail Income American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. has a variety of products to sell. American Eagle’s biggest seller is their clothing. American Eagle has jeans, several types of other bottoms, several types of tops, dresses, socks, shoes, and under garments off all types. They also have a personal care line which consist of bath and body, fragrances, skin care, makeup, and hair care products. Along with the clothing and personal care, American Eagle has accessories.
Companies all over the globe will experience some sales and profit decrease. Home Depot in the growing housing industry benefited greatly from the houses being built. The accounting concept portrayed in this situation for home depot is called operating leverage. Operation leverage is when managers view a small change in revenue and magnify it to dramatic changes in revenue (Edmonds, Tsay, & Olds, 2011). With a decrease in the market for construction materials, Home Depot is experiencing a 3% decrease revenue and a 21% decrease in profitability.
Background: Tyson Foods is currently one of the largest food companies. Now,headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, USA. The predecessor of Tyson Foods was John W. Tyson and his family began delivering chickens to larger markets in 1931. Years later, Tyson Foods became a publicly traded company. As of 1935, the company has over one hundred and forty thousand employees.
Kroger Company is among the largest food retailers in the United States while operating in more than 2400 grocery stores, convenience stores, and about 200 supercenters. Including Fred Meyer who is one out of the nearly two dozen store brand names. Fred Meyer is a chain of more than 130 supercenters located over the west coast including Alaska, has been sourcing products overseas for more than 30 years . Acknowledging there proficiency Kroger bought Fred Meyer in 1999. While Fred Meyer headquarters also resides with the Kroger logistic group they have also managed to handle the imported products from Kroger Stores.
One of Belk Inc. top competitors is Kohl’s, one of America’s biggest department store retail chains. The company currently has more than 1162 retail stores across 49 states, along with the powerful e-commerce platform of Kohls.com. (Tracey Mitchell). Kohl’s has a similar customer profile compared to Belk Inc., they target middle class women between ages 25-54 with an annual household income between $50,000 to $74,900. (R., 2014).
Loblaw Companies Limited uses various social media platforms to effectively create an identity that is socially responsible and respectful, and to set the company apart from competitors such as Walmart. Through the analysis of Loblaw’s twitter page, Third Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report, and the homepage of loblaw.ca, I will explore how Loblaw includes ethos, pathos, and logos in each of their portrayals of the company. Loblaw’s twitter features a tweet showcasing that their President’s Choice Children’s Charity has just committed $150 million to childhood hunger and nutrition on September 21st, 2017. Included in the tweet is a link to an article detailing this news and a picture of the owner of Loblaw Companies Limited, Galen
Loyal customer was the strength for the J. Crew. The different apparel women, men, boys and girls. The company weakness was a big loss on the sales revenue due to the poor strategy. Opportunities were to increase product differentiation like luxury shoes, caps, perfumes etc. The company had an opportunity
Massive sales significantly reduce the cost of operations boosting the profitability of the organization. Ross’s business model gives it a considerable edge in the cut-throat retail industry, and it cushions the company from losing its customers to Amazon. The low prices appeal to the consumers even in the face of tough economic times giving Ross Stores an edge over other players in the industry (Trainer, 2017). For instance, Ross Stores has maintained a Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) of 21 % which is way beyond the firm’ s cost of capital (7.44%) meaning Ross Stores has sufficient funds to roll out expansion strategies (Trainer, 2017). The low prices are not a source of long term competitiveness since the high profit margins in the off-price retail industry are likely to attract more firms thus diminishing low prices as a source of competitive edge.
According to IBIS, Marshalls specializes in the Family Clothing Store industry. This industry contains retail stores that sell non-gender specific attire for both adults and children. IBISWorld forecasts steady growth for the FCS industry. The industries revenue is expected to grow at an annual rate of 2.8% over the next five years to 2020 to reach 115.3 billion. TJX Companies Inc. controls around 14.3% of this market and is expected to grow steadily.
Introduction: In our group project, we will do the stock evaluation of Wal-Mart, Target and dollar general. The reason we choose these three companies is because all of them are the famous discount retailing chain in U.S. and making the huge revenue in the industry. Meanwhile, in our opinion, these three companies can perfectly represent the different size of company, such as Wal-Mart for super-big, Target for big and dollar general for medium. Target and dollar general both are famous and big size companies, but we define them in big and medium size because of the size of Wal-Mart. We purposely choose these three publicly traded companies with the similar background to better identify the stock performance and competitive advantage that
