Pandora Media is an internet radio service provider that was founded in 2000 in Oakland, California. Their mission is to play only music you love. Pandora differentiates themselves from their competitors by creating dynamic personalized radio stations powered by their Music Genome Project–an ambitious taxonomy of musical data compiled by professional music analysts. Until recently, they were the biggest music streaming service in the United States with more than 80 million monthly active listeners. The service is available on the web and on a variety of mobile and automobile devices in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. Pandora has been making headlines with a recent series of strategic acquisitions, followed by a $300 million convertible debt offering. In May they acquired a social analytics company that focuses on the music industry called Next Big Sound, in October they acquired the online event ticket seller TicketFly, and in November they acquired Rdio, a streaming music service known as the “hipster” …
I gained interest in Under Armor when I was living in Baltimore, MD, where the headquarters of the business is located. A good friend and former classmate of mine worked as a designer at Under Armor for a few years, before recently quitting after showing great frustration and concern for what she believed to be ruthless and somewhat terrifying corporate plans for the future. She mentioned their fast growth rate and plans to compete or surpass businesses including Nike and Adidas. She also showed particular concern for their aggressive plans of expansion and acquisition in Baltimore. There are two major questions that I address in this video, which I back up using the 2014 Annual Corporate Report: First, is Under Armour really growing so quickly? Competing with Nike sounds like a stretch. How do their financials support this? Secondly, why choose Baltimore? How much land are they really acquiring? What are the pros and cons of growing there?
I chose a company based in my hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Krispy Kreme – to present their financial results ending on February 1, 2015. I reviewed the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement and highlighted the key numbers. I also put together a few relevant financial ratios to further analyze the data and make some explanations. In summation, we can see Krispy Kreme is expanding, but that also means debt increases from capitalized leases.
This is an analysis of Coach, a leading fashion brand, based on it's recent years' finanacial statement. Coach is going through a big trouble. They, however, are positively confronting it and taking multi measures to address it.
Brief : Talk the audience through the financial statements of a company that you resonate with via a video. The company I studied is Pandora radio, I looked into financial years from 2012 to 2014. Pandora has had an interesting journey from 2013 till date. In 2013, Pandora had a significant runway for growth. As one of the few media companies operating at scale across multiple platforms, Pandora had been able to tap into both the $20B plus digital advertising market and had taken part in the $15B US radio business. In 2014, Pandora delivered a strong financial and operational growth while establishing new initiatives reflecting our unique leadership position in the music industry. Also, Pandora uniquely positioned itself to capture growth from both the $20 billion plus US digital advertising market and the $15 billion plus US radio business as they continued to gain market share and expand meaningfully into local advertising markets that was oncedominated by terrestrial radio. On the other hand the core …
Petsmart is the largest pet supply retailer in North America so I expected its financial to perfom outstandingly. The income statement show that the revenue was increasing over the years but the cash flow statement revealed that the company's cash income was decreasing. However, the financial ratios showed that Petsmart was performing better than the industry's avarage, which shows that the company is not highly efficient but it is financially stable.
Arsenal has long been known as a frugal spender on players, preferring instead to develop its own talent. This is a controversial matter given it’s fluctuating season-to-season success, from high highs, to low lows. We take a look at Arsenal’s 2015 financial statements, three financial ratios compared to rival Manchester United’s, and consider Arsenal’s overall financial health as a club.
Cover financial statements, balance sheets and cash flow from Goldman Sachs 10K. This is supplemented with an analysts report from Morgan Stanley as well as a transcript from CFO Harry Schwartz reviewing Q3.
This is a financial analysis of both the income statment and balance sheet of CCA, Corrections Corporation of America. This analysis looks at revenue, specials income tax circumstances of such a corporation and their debt. This information is used to determine the finanicial soundness of a business.