PLEASE ANSWER NUMBER 14
12. Media companies have historically stood out from other industries with a practice of focusing investors on non-GAAP measures like EBITDA. Why?
13. Apple, Inc. reported last week that its balance sheet cash at March 31, 2017 now exceeds an astonishing $257 billion, more than the entire annual economic output of many countries, including Chile, Pakistan and Finland. Please read the following disclosure from Apple in conjunction with its Q1 2017 earnings release and explain 1) whether you think the magnitude of this return of capital plan is satisfactory from a shareholder perspective and 2) why do you think Apple needs to "access the domestic and international debt markets to assist in funding the program"?
Apple announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an increase of $50 billion to the Companyâs program to return capital to shareholders. Under the expanded program, Apple plans to spend a cumulative total of $300 billion by the end of March 2019.
âWe generated strong operating cash flow of $12.5 billion and returned over $10 billion to our investors in the March quarter,â said Luca Maestri, Appleâs CFO. âGiven the strength of our business and our confidence in our future, we are happy to announce another $50 billion increase to our capital return program today.â
As part of the latest update to the program, the Board has increased its share repurchase authorization to $210 billion from the $175 billion level announced a year ago.
The Board has approved a 10.5% increase to the Companyâs quarterly dividend, and has declared a dividend of $0.63 per share of the Companyâs common stock, payable on May 18, 2017 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2017.
From the inception of its capital return program in August 2012 through March 2017, Apple has returned over $211 billion to shareholders, including $151 billion in share repurchases.
The Company plans to continue to access the domestic and international debt markets to assist in funding the program.
14. Refer to Facebook's Q1 2017 investor press release here: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2017/Facebook-Reports-First-Quarter-2017-Results/default.aspx (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
e. What is Facebook's current market capitalization and enterprise value using a market price of $150 per FB share?
f. Provide Facebook's EV/adjusted EBITDA and P/E ratios using $150 per FB share.
g. Hypothetically, let's say Facebook has an agreement to buy Pandora at $14 per P share, or about $3.5 billion. How would you recommend to the Facebook CFO as to how to finance (pay for) the acquisition and why?
h. Do you think that there is another company on the planet with a more impressive set of financial statements than Facebook?
PLEASE ANSWER NUMBER 14
12. Media companies have historically stood out from other industries with a practice of focusing investors on non-GAAP measures like EBITDA. Why?
13. Apple, Inc. reported last week that its balance sheet cash at March 31, 2017 now exceeds an astonishing $257 billion, more than the entire annual economic output of many countries, including Chile, Pakistan and Finland. Please read the following disclosure from Apple in conjunction with its Q1 2017 earnings release and explain 1) whether you think the magnitude of this return of capital plan is satisfactory from a shareholder perspective and 2) why do you think Apple needs to "access the domestic and international debt markets to assist in funding the program"?
Apple announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an increase of $50 billion to the Companyâs program to return capital to shareholders. Under the expanded program, Apple plans to spend a cumulative total of $300 billion by the end of March 2019.
âWe generated strong operating cash flow of $12.5 billion and returned over $10 billion to our investors in the March quarter,â said Luca Maestri, Appleâs CFO. âGiven the strength of our business and our confidence in our future, we are happy to announce another $50 billion increase to our capital return program today.â
As part of the latest update to the program, the Board has increased its share repurchase authorization to $210 billion from the $175 billion level announced a year ago.
The Board has approved a 10.5% increase to the Companyâs quarterly dividend, and has declared a dividend of $0.63 per share of the Companyâs common stock, payable on May 18, 2017 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2017.
From the inception of its capital return program in August 2012 through March 2017, Apple has returned over $211 billion to shareholders, including $151 billion in share repurchases.
The Company plans to continue to access the domestic and international debt markets to assist in funding the program.
14. Refer to Facebook's Q1 2017 investor press release here: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2017/Facebook-Reports-First-Quarter-2017-Results/default.aspx (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
e. What is Facebook's current market capitalization and enterprise value using a market price of $150 per FB share?
f. Provide Facebook's EV/adjusted EBITDA and P/E ratios using $150 per FB share.
g. Hypothetically, let's say Facebook has an agreement to buy Pandora at $14 per P share, or about $3.5 billion. How would you recommend to the Facebook CFO as to how to finance (pay for) the acquisition and why?
h. Do you think that there is another company on the planet with a more impressive set of financial statements than Facebook?
