Part 1: financial statement analysis Project Apple Part 1: financial statement analysis
Outline Financial Statement Analysis Valuation Dividend Policy Income Statement Analysis Balance Sheet Analysis Cash Flow Statement Analysis Free Cash Flow Valuation Dividend Policy Capital Structure
Income statement Discuss the profitability measured by Gross margin Operating margin Profit margin Discuss the change of profitability for the last 10 years. What is driving the change?
Balance Sheet Is there need to study liquidity of Apple? Debt management ratios. How has the debt ratio changed over time.
Combine balance sheet with income statement Efficiency of Apple Inventory turnover Fixed assets turnover Total assets turnover Use of cash, wasted or needed? Profitability on assets and equity ROA ROE
Market Ratio Peice-to-earnings Price-to-Book
Cash flow statement Why operation cash flow is different from net income? FCF: what is Apple’s free cash flow in 2012? How is it different from net income
Market ratios What is the trailing PE ratio for Apple? What does it mean? What is the market-to-book ratio for Apple? What is the implication?
DuPont analysis Compared with its rivals, what is driving the ROE of Apple? How to break down ROE into profitability, asset efficiency and equity multiplier
Part II: Capital structure What is Apple’s current capital structure? How to change Apple’s capital structure? How the use of debt would affect net income? How the use of debt would to affect number of shares outstanding? Calculate EPS under new capital structure What effect does increasing debt have on cost of equity? Calculate Apple’s fair value under new capital structure