Creative and unique digital strategies have helped push Domino’s to record-level earnings and share prices. We wanted to see if the numbers behind this fast food giant support all the great financial press we’ve seen lately. We were not disappointed.
The stock price chart (from Google Finance, COH) shows the roller-coaster this stock has been in the last 10 years. In our analysis, we’re going to concentrate on the last 4 years or so and see what went wrong and what corrections we recommend.
In 2010, we would have recommended they stop seeking revenues and start focusing on gross profit margins and gross profit dollars – increase prices and do it now! Over the next 3 years, prices increased, gross profit margin increased by almost 1/3, and the annual revenues declined 24%. These changes made sure the business stayed healthy during a time that could have really hurt their future prospects.
Several months ago, a client asked me how I stay so positive about things. We all see, hear, and read way too much negative news every day. That is what sells unfortunately. But I believe strongly in human creativity. So I just went back three years in the new items I compile and send out (they […]
You might think that a company with a strong following that’s closing in on $1.6 billion in sales has nothing to fear but you would be wrong. We ran Lulu’s financials statements through our analysis program and found serious cause for concern. Lulu’s story is a great example of a strong product that could be outdone by poor financial management.
Tesla Motors, the brainchild of the PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the news recently with their award-winning Tesla Model S, a sedan capable of beating out a Viper R/T in a drag race. But how are their finances?