Tracking Financials

I track the financials of publicly traded companies in a number of industry groups on a routine basis to follow their inventory performance.

From the Income Statement, I capture:

• Sales
• Cost of Goods Sold
• Gross Profit

and from the Balance Sheet:

• Accounts Receivable
• Inventory 
• Accounts Payable.

From this data, I calculate: 

• inventory turnover 
• GP% 
• GMROI 
• Cash to Cash cycle.  

Here are graphs of this data for three companies in the same industry space.  I leave you to do your own analysis and draw your own conclusions.

Note: The multi chart shown above uses a log scale: This allows large ranges of data to be shown on a single graph and the slope of the line reflects percentage changes to allow easy comparison.

Looking at inventory performance improvement through a different lens.