Please use the data below to answer the next five questions . The source of the
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Please use the data below to answer the next five questions. The source of the data is Yahoo Finance and it is for Walmart (fiscal year end Jan 31, 2014) and Deckers (fiscal year end Dec 31, 2013, retailer of items such as UGG footware).
Note 1: When answering questions where you have to calculate ratios that have a balance sheet item and income statement item, please ignore averages for the balance sheet item. For instance, to calculate asset turnover, divide sales by assets shown below and not sales divided by average assets (assets shown below and the prior year).
Note 2: When calculating inventory days, accounts receivable days, and payables days, assume a 365 day year.
Item (in thousands) Walmart Deckers .
Sales $476,294,000 $1,556,618
Direct costs (cost of goods sold) $358,069,000 $820,135
Net income $16,022,000 $145,689
Inventory $44,858,000 $260,791
Receivables $6,677,000 $203,894
Accounts payable $57,174,000 $310,790
Total assets $204,751,000 $1,259,729
Equity $76,255,000 $888,119
Dividends $6,861,000 $0
QUESTION 1: The cash conversion cycle for Deckers is about ____.
QUESTION 2: On each dollar of sales, after only direct costs, Walmart makes about ____ and Deckers makes about ____.
QUESTION 3: Which of the following is(are) false? (If there is more than one right answer, you must select the choice with all of the right answers in order to receive credit.)
QUESTION 4: Walmart has a higher ROE than Deckers; however, Walmart's Asset to Equity ratio is different than Deckers'. Assuming Walmart's ROA does not change, if Walmart had the same Asset/Equity ratio as Deckers, Walmart's ROE would be ____ than Deckers'.
QUESTION 5: Walmart's theoretical sustainable growth rate is ____.
Explanation / Answer
ans 1= 4.206.6 days
ans 2 =3. $0.33, $0.90
ans 3 =4. Walmart has a higher equity multiplier (also called leverage ratio) than Deckers
ans 4 = 1. Higher
ans 5 = 2. 7.5%