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Comprehensive firm analysis. Section 2 Specialty Retail Amazon Inc. Sophie Yu. Introduction of amazon. Online retailer since July 1995 Currently offers biggest selection on the earth Also provided services Advertising Co-branded credit card agreements Current Issues
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Comprehensive firm analysis Section 2 Specialty Retail Amazon Inc. Sophie Yu
Introduction of amazon • Online retailer since July 1995 • Currently offers biggest selection on the earth • Also provided services • Advertising • Co-branded credit card agreements • Current Issues • Account Receivables • Tax reform • Consumer confidence is recovering, but there’s a limit • Moving into overseas (Europe case) • Freight cost increases • Huge R&D expenses • Construction in process and capital leases
Accounting adjustments • Operating leases • Stock-based compensation • (Details in Mod 11)
WACC • β=0.903 • Cost of Equity:10.94% • Cost of Debt: 4.5% • WACC: 11.09% Market Value: $149,366
VALUATION • DCF (only a part of the valuation model)
VALUATION • REI
VALUATION • AEG
Why overvalued by market • Over-optimistic forecast of sales growth • Tax legislation • Competition from emerging online specialty retailers • Prime membership • Under estimated cost • R&D • Distribution centers and other buildings construction and leases • Over valued merger and acquisition • Slowed down in recent years • Size of mergers decreased • Business relationships and strategic alliances • Pricing limit • Current sales growth driven by reduction in price
Profitability analysis • Amazon is actually not comparable to the other three companies in this industry