
Compare five-year P&L and year-over-year growth for Amazon and Wal-Mart, and compute profitability, liquidity, and efficiency ratios. Use 10-K highlights and segment net sales to assess performance with a scorecard.
Analyze Amazon and Wal-Mart stock performance over five years, highlighting Amazon's near sixfold rise and outperformance of major indices, contrasted with Wal-Mart's underperformance and weaker returns.
Compare five-year trends for Amazon and Walmart in revenues, operating income, and net income, highlighting Walmart's lead in gross revenues while Amazon shows rapid growth toward parity.
Compare five-year trends for Amazon and Walmart, showing Amazon's strong growth in net sales, operating income, net income, and EPS from 2015–2019, versus Walmart's slower 2016–2020 growth and EPS gains.
Analyze year over year trends for Amazon and Walmart, comparing five-year revenue growth, operating income fluctuations, and net income, highlighting Amazon's stronger growth.
Compare year-over-year trends for Amazon and Wal-Mart using data, focusing on Amazon’s 20–30% net sales growth and operating income fluctuations versus Walmart’s minimal net sales growth and mixed income patterns.
Compare year-over-year trends in total assets and equity for Amazon and Walmart from 2015 to 2020, highlighting Amazon's asset growth and its equity as a share of Walmart.
Compare Amazon and Walmart through a comprehensive scorecard, highlighting revenue, operating income, net income, EPS, cash flow, assets, liabilities, equity, and five-year growth.
Compute the gross margin ratio from net sales and cost of sales to reveal gross profit for Amazon and Walmart, comparing margins and implications.
Compare Amazon and Walmart profitability by operating margin and pretax profit margin, showing Amazon around 5% on both measures, versus Walmart about 4% operating margin and 3.8% pretax.
Explore the net profit margin ratio and how net income as a percentage of revenues reveals profitability, examining Amazon and Walmart to compare margins and cost management.
Evaluate how the return on assets ratio, calculated as net income over average total assets, compares Amazon and Walmart, with about 5.97% for Amazon and 6.53% for Walmart.
Calculate the return on equity by dividing net income by average equity to measure profits generated from assets. Amazon and Walmart show healthy ROEs of about 22 and 20 percent.
Analyze profitability ratios for Amazon and Walmart, including gross margin, operating margin, pre-tax profit margin, net profit margin, return on assets, and return on equity; Amazon dominates most metrics.
Calculate the current ratio to gauge liquidity by dividing current assets by current liabilities. Amazon is 1.10 and Walmart is 0.79, showing Amazon better covers short-term debt.
Compute the cash ratio, a conservative liquidity measure using cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Amazon's ratio is 0.63 versus Walmart's 0.12, indicating stronger liquidity for Amazon.
Learn to calculate the quick ratio, compare Amazon and Walmart liquidity, and interpret how cash, equivalents, marketable securities, and receivables cover current liabilities.
Compare liquidity ratios for Amazon and Walmart, highlighting Amazon’s stronger current, cash, and quick ratios (1.104 vs 0.79; 0.63 vs 0.12; 0.86 vs 0.20), indicating greater liquidity.
Compute and compare asset turnover ratios for Amazon and Walmart, showing how revenues over average assets yield about 1.45x for Amazon and 2.30x for Walmart.
Calculate the inventory turnover ratio by dividing cost of goods sold by average inventory; Amazon turns 8.79 times and Walmart 8.90 times, indicating Walmart slightly more efficient inventory management.
Calculate the receivables turnover ratio from net sales divided by average accounts receivable to gauge collection efficiency. Amazon yields about 15, while Walmart yields about 83.39, indicating Walmart collects faster.
Wal-Mart shows a slight advantage in inventory turnover ratio and a higher asset turnover ratio, while Amazon leads in receivables turnover ratio.
Compute the debt to equity ratio to assess financial leverage and risk. Amazon shows about 1.2x debt to equity, while Walmart sits near 1.0x, indicating higher leverage for Amazon.
Calculate and compare the interest coverage ratio for Amazon and Walmart using EBIT and interest expense, showing Amazon at 9.2x and Walmart at 8.7x.
Compare the debt-to-equity and interest coverage ratios for Amazon and Walmart, noting Walmart's lower leverage and Amazon's higher interest coverage, ending in a draw on capital structure.
Explore earnings per share (EPS) concepts, including basic and diluted EPS, by calculating net income divided by weighted average shares for Amazon and Walmart, and compare their profitability per share.
Compute and compare the price-earnings ratio for Amazon and Walmart using year-end and trailing twelve months data, illustrating how share price and diluted earnings per share drive valuation.
Compare Amazon and Walmart valuation ratios, showing Amazon's higher year-end and trailing P/E ratios, and conclude Amazon is valued more highly by the market.
Analyze Amazon's selected data and free cash flows from its 10-K, highlighting net sales growth to 280.5 billion and diluted earnings per share reaching 23.01.
Analyze Amazon's net sales by segment, highlighting 61% North America, 27% international, and 12% AWS, with cloud services driving over half of operating income.
Analyze Walmart's five-year data from its 10-K, including net sales trends, a near 24% gross profit margin that is stable but declining, fluctuating net income, and decreasing free cash flows.
Analyze Walmart’s net sales by segment from the 10K. U.S. groceries reach $190.5 billion, over 55% of U.S. sales, and e-commerce adds $21.5 billion, with international and Sam’s Club breakdowns.
Compare growth and financial performance between Amazon and Walmart, showing Amazon's stronger five-year growth and higher financial metrics, with AWS driving Amazon's net income while Walmart relies on groceries.
What Makes this Course Different?
1) Learn through examples
We will utilize Amazon & Walmart’s Financial Information to ‘Learn through examples’
2) Scorecard
We will maintain a ‘Scorecard’ of Amazon and Walmart’s performance throughout our Analysis
3) Gain Insights
We will ‘Gain Insights’ into the Financial Performance of Amazon versus Walmart
In this course, we will cover the following topics:
A) Financial & Trending Analysis:
5-year P&L Comparison
Year-over-Year P&L Analysis
B) How to calculate Financial Ratios:
Profitability Ratios
Capital Structure Ratios
Liquidity Ratios
Valuation Ratios
Efficiency Ratios
C) Go through key highlights & tables from Amazon and Walmart’s Form-10K filing