Whole Foods Market 2014 Annual Paper

Whole Foods Market, Inc.
2014 Annual report (Project)
The name of the corporation: The name of the corporation I chose is Whole Foods Market Inc.

State of incorporation: Whole Foods Market is incorporated in the state of Texas.

Nature of operation: The nature of Whole Foods operation is Providing the best quality food and drugs to their customers. Whole Foods Market is a retail provider of foods both organic and non-organic. Whole Foods also provides their customers with Drugs both holistic and non-holistic.

Date of annual report used: The annual report that I chose to use is dated on 2014.

Total assets: According to the balance sheet on the 2014 annual report: Whole Foods recorded total assets of $5,744 (million) on September 28th of 2014.

Whole Foods Market provide common stocks, no par value. They do not have any preferred stocks.
As of august 1st of last year, Whole Foods Market’s board of Directors authorized a program in which the corporation can repurchase stocks up to a billion dollars of outstanding common stock until 8/1/16.

Market price of the stock for 3/6/2015 $55.79
High and low prices of stock for the past 12 months. The following dates reflect the lowest price of the WFM stock, the highest price and also the more recent stock price to give you an idea of how the stock is currently doing. According to yahoo Finance on the following dates the WFM stock was priced at:
3/13/14 high $55.91
7/17/14 lowest $36.08
2/19/15 highest $57.57
Dividends paid for each of share of stock during the year covered by the annual report. In Whole Foods Market 2014 annual report, it is stated that the company paid their common shareholders dividend quarterly at $0.12/ common share.
Outstanding amount of common stocks reported as of November 18, 2014 stood at 359,747,100