Ratio analysis
Profitability ratio’s
Liquidity ratio’s
Introduction:
The aim of this report is to conduct an analysis of the financial statements of J. Sainsbury plc and Tesco plc for the year ending 2013, comparing both companies by looking at the ratios calculated and looking at the importance of supplementing financial analysis with non-financial considerations.
Tesco is Britain’s leading food retailer and the third largest in the world. Tesco opened in 1929. After joining the eighties trend for large out-of-town supermarkets, in the 1990’s the company started pioneering many new innovations. Tesco has over 530,000 colleagues over 12 countries serving up to 75 million transactions every week. J. Sainsbury is into grocery, retail and financial services. It has a 16.8% UK market share. It has 157,000 colleagues, 23 million customer transactions per week, and 1,106 stores. The information in appendix 1 and 2 was extracted from both companies’ annual reports, for Sainsbury’s year ended March 2013 and February2013 for Tesco.
Analysis
An operating profit of £9.25 was made on every £100 of capital employed from Sainsbury’s. Compared to Tesco, an operating profit of £7.02 was made on every £100. Looking at the two figures Sainsbury utilizes their capital more efficiently than Tesco, because looking at their revenue scale Tesco is has 2188 compared to Sainsbury which only has 887. Using the 10 year benchmark in the UK, the risk free return rate is at 2.87% in the UK ( (Bloomberg). Therefore comparing Tesco and Sainsbury against the risk free return they are both performing well.
Gross profit
J. Sainsbury made £5.48 in gross profit for every £100 of revenue whilst Tesco is performing better at £6.31 in every £100.
The gross profit margin of both companies is mostly affected by global economic recession but Tesco is doing quite well. Sainsbury find itself in difficult probably due to high
Liquidity ratio’s
Introduction:
The aim of this report is to conduct an analysis of the financial statements of J. Sainsbury plc and Tesco plc for the year ending 2013, comparing both companies by looking at the ratios calculated and looking at the importance of supplementing financial analysis with non-financial considerations.
Tesco is Britain’s leading food retailer and the third largest in the world. Tesco opened in 1929. After joining the eighties trend for large out-of-town supermarkets, in the 1990’s the company started pioneering many new innovations. Tesco has over 530,000 colleagues over 12 countries serving up to 75 million transactions every week. J. Sainsbury is into grocery, retail and financial services. It has a 16.8% UK market share. It has 157,000 colleagues, 23 million customer transactions per week, and 1,106 stores. The information in appendix 1 and 2 was extracted from both companies’ annual reports, for Sainsbury’s year ended March 2013 and February2013 for Tesco.
Analysis
An operating profit of £9.25 was made on every £100 of capital employed from Sainsbury’s. Compared to Tesco, an operating profit of £7.02 was made on every £100. Looking at the two figures Sainsbury utilizes their capital more efficiently than Tesco, because looking at their revenue scale Tesco is has 2188 compared to Sainsbury which only has 887. Using the 10 year benchmark in the UK, the risk free return rate is at 2.87% in the UK ( (Bloomberg). Therefore comparing Tesco and Sainsbury against the risk free return they are both performing well.
Gross profit
J. Sainsbury made £5.48 in gross profit for every £100 of revenue whilst Tesco is performing better at £6.31 in every £100.
The gross profit margin of both companies is mostly affected by global economic recession but Tesco is doing quite well. Sainsbury find itself in difficult probably due to high