What are the Porter’s 5 Forces?
Describe the Business Cycle
Describe the Life Cycle Stages
What are the different External Factors that affect Industries?
Categorize the SWOT Analysis into External & Internal + Positive & Negative Factors
Internal: Strengths & Weaknesses
External: Opportunities & Threats
Positive: Opportunities & Strengths
Negative: Threats & Weaknesses
How would you analyze Competitive Advantage?
How to achieve Competitive Advantage?
What is Common-Size Analysis? What are its advantages?
Definition: Vertical Statement (all line items expressed as a % of net revenue/total assets)
Advantages: allows for meaningful comparisons
- over time
- between firms
What are Percentage Change Statements?
Horizontal statements (amounts expressed as a % of a base year) w/ focus on growth in each line item over time
Caution: small (immaterial) accounts may hold huge change in %, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they are important
What does the Quality of Forecasts depend on?
What is the order to Forecast f/s?
Explain ROE
ROE = Net Income / Avg. Shareholders’ Equity
Measures return from perspective of company’s stockholders
*must use value attributable to parent company (do not consider non-controlling interest)
Explain ROCE
Return on Common Equity = (Net Income - Preferred Dividends)/(Avg. Stockholders’ Equity - Avg. Preferred Equity)
What are the 2 methods to measure ROE Drivers?
Describe the DuPont Disaggregation of ROE
ROE = Net Income / Avg. Shareholders’ Equity = (Net Income / Avg. Total Assets) x (Avg. Total Assets / Avg. Shareholders’ Equity)
ROE = ROA (PM x AT) = FL
ROE is higher w/ more more debt & less equity for given level of assets (higher risk)
Reflects a blend of the return on a company’s operating assets & its non-operating return
Explain ROA
ROA = Net Income / Avg. Total Assets
Measures return from perspective of entire company (enterprise value)
Explain PM
Profit Margin = Net Income / Sales
What the company earns on each sales dollar
Explain AT
Asset Turnover = Sale / Avg. Total Sales
Sales generated from each dollar invested in assets
Describe FL
FL = Avg. Total Assets / Avg. Shareholders’ Equity
Measures relative use of debt vs equity to finance company assets
Explain PPE Turnover
PPE Turnover = Sales / Avg. PPE
Describe the Operating Focus on ROE Analysis
Focuses on the operating activities (assets) to generate returns
Compares RNOA to ROE on a relative basis to determine if Profit is retained mostly w/ operating or non-operating activities
RNOA = NOPAT / Avg. NOA
Explain NOA
Net Operating Assets = Operating Assets - Operating Liablities
Components of Operating Assets
No Cash or Equity Method Investments
Components of Operating Liabilities
No Debt