VALUE LINE PUBLISHING‚ OCTOBER 2002 Case Analysis Report Introduction The Retail Building – Supply Industry remains to be going strong despite the slow economic growth in 2002; this is due to low interest rates and strong housing market. This industry with the size of $175 billion is expected to reach $194 billion after five years. In this consolidating industry‚ two key players are dominating: Home Depot‚ which is holding 29% of the market‚ and Lowe’s that has 10.8% market share. Both wanting
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Value Line Publishing There are two leaders for retail building-supply industry: Home Depot and Lowe’s‚ the two companies captured more than third of the total sale of the industry. Home Depot hold 22.9% market shares of the industry and Lowe’s hold 10.8% market share. Two companies are head to head competitor but focus on different market‚ Home Depot focused on large metropolitan areas and Lowe’s focused on rural area. Two companies both maintained online stores. Lowe’s has its own Web site: “Accent
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Value Line Publishing‚ October 2002 In Case Number 12‚ "Value Line Publishing‚ October 2002‚" Carrie Galeotafiore presents a five-year financial forecast that shows Home Depot in an positive light. It also prepares to do the same with an analysis of Lowe’s. She supports the changes proposed by the new Home Depot CEO and that would play a role in improving Home Depot’s financial health in the home center and building industry. Galeotafiore supports her by mentioning a number of sources that
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Value Line Publishing Problems: The case highlights the performance review and financial-statement forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for retail building-supply industry in Oct 2002. The industry is dominated by two firms: Home Depot‚ with strong operating performance and Lowe’s‚ with strong stock-market performance. The industry is highly consolidated with two major players‚ high barriers to entry and with the independent hardware stores struggling to remain competitive. This is also
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Case study: Value line publishing According to the case‚ Lowe’s management said that the growth rate of next two years would be 18% to 19%. So I prefer to use this rate as the growth rate of the first two years. The growth rate of the first two years would be 18.5%. The growth rate from 2004 to 2006 is estimated by the number of new stores‚ sq. footage and the historical sales. The following exhibit will show this result. 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Number of stores 477 520 576 650 744
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displays‚ to promote its offerings. With the move toward an end-to-end service- centric offering‚ however‚ Simpson believed that digital media should play an important role in educating customers about the Lowe’s solution and convincing them of its value. He also believed that digital media and traditional media worked in complementary ways‚ and that Lowe’s needed to create an integrated marketing communications plan that would combine traditional as well as emerging marketing communications channels
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(ACC4012) Bryan’s Publishing Case Question 2 BookStore Company Limited is a 100% subsidiary of Bryan’s Publishing and specializes in the publication and distribution of business text books. BookStore employs on average 50 employees and sales for financial year December 2011 exceeded $20 million. Bryan periodically sends a member of its Internal Audit Department to audit the operations of its subsidiaries. Phillip Smith is an Internal Audit staff working with Bryan’s Publishing. He previously worked
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I. Executive Summary Lowe’s Company has been in business for over 60 years. The company is the second largest home improvement retailer in the world and employs more than 215‚000 employees. The company’s home base is Mooresville‚ North Carolina. Standard & Poor ranks Lowe’s as #48 . Presently‚ Lowe’s stock‚ which is identified on the New York Stock Exchange as LOW‚ is selling for right under $20 a share. This price has been consistent and is comparable to their biggest competitor Home Depot
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VALUE LINE PUBLISHING‚ OCTOBER 2002 Teaching Note This case follows the performance-review and financial-statement-forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for the retail-building-supply industry in October 2002. The case contrasts the strong operating performance of Home Depot with the strong stock-market performance of Lowe’s. Students examine a financial-ratio analysis for Home Depot that acts as a template to generate a comparable ratio analysis for Lowe’s. The students’ ratio
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John Lowe v. California League Of Professional Baseball et al. 65 Cal. Rptr. 2d 105(Cal.1997) Facts Plaintiff John Lowe attended a Quakes’ home game in California and his seat was along the left field foul line. During the game‚ the team mascot was playing his antics behind plaintiff and had been touching plaintiff with his tail. Plaintiff was therefore distracted and turned around toward the mascot. After that‚ plaintiff returned his focus on the game but got hit by a foul ball. Plaintiff heavily
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