Overview
Please use the attached excel information regarding the two companies financial statements
Primary company: Papa Johns
Comparison Company: Dominos pizza
Course Project Outline of the Write-up
- Title Page
a. The names of the group members, the industry number, the industry type (e.g. software), and the names of the companies you are studying in the format of “Primary Company vs. Comparison Company”. - Description of the firm, its products and its competition (1 page)
a. A brief discussion of the primary company, its products and its strategies for competing in its industry.
b. A brief (one paragraph) discussion of the comparison company. - Evaluation of the two companies’ financial statements
a. Short-term liquidity
i. Discuss the primary company’s short-term debt paying ability by looking at the trends in its current assets and current liabilities in the common size balance sheet, the trends in cash flow statement (especially cash flows from operations), and the trends in its liquidity ratios.
ii. Explain the reasons for the above trends.
iii. Compare the trends for the primary and the comparison company.
b. Asset management
i. Discuss the primary company’s ability to turn over its assets while keeping its costs down by looking at the trends in its costs accounts in the common size income statement, and the trends in its turnover ratios.
ii. Explain the reasons for the above trends.
iii. Compare the trends for the primary and the comparison company.
c. Long-term liquidity
i. Discuss the primary company’s long-term debt paying ability by looking at the trends in its relevant accounts in the common size balance sheet and income statement, and trends in various leverage ratios.
ii. Explain the reasons for the above trends
iii. Compare the trends for the primary and the comparison company.
d. Profitability
i. Discuss the primary company’s profitability by looking at the trends in its relevant accounts in the common size income statements, and the trends in its profitability ratios.
ii. Explain the reasons for the above trends.
iii. Compare the trends for the primary and the comparison company.
e. DuPont analysis
i. Conduct a DuPont analysis to evaluate the primary company’s profitability, asset management efficiency, and its ability to manage its debt. Compare the ratios that make up the extended DuPont equation and explain the trends in the primary company’s ROE.
ii. Compare the ROE of the primary and the comparison company using DuPont analysis.
f. Summary of the primary company’s overall performance (1 page)
i. Summarize your analysis based on parts a through e. - References
a. Include references used in your project analysis. - Appendices
a. Create a set of tables for the primary company in the same format as in the Excel spreadsheet provided on Canvas.
b. Create a set of tables for the comparison company in the same format as in the Excel spreadsheet provided on Canvas.
c. Include any other tables and graphs that are relevant to your analysis.
d. Note that these tables and graphs should be numbered and referred to directly in the main text of the project where they are discussed. - Financial statements of the two companies from annual report or 10-K
a. Include the original balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement for both the primary and the comparison company from their annual report or 10-K.
About Formatting of the Write-up
- Each group needs to turn in a typewritten and double-spaced project paper.
- Parts 2 and 3 of the write-up should add up to be 10-11 pages in length.
- Margins should not exceed 1 inch.
- For the main text, use size 12 of Times New Roman or Arial.
- Use References and Citations wherever appropriate.
- About page numbering:
a. Number all pages using Arabic numerals, i.e. 1, 2, 3, etc, starting with the introduction page.
b. Do not number the title page. - All tables should have headings “Table 1, Table 2, …” etc. All charts or graphs should have headings “Figure 1, Figure 2, …” etc.