Balance Sheet: Assets
Quarterly Data
The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.
Assets are resources controlled by the company as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the entity.
Assets: Selected Items
Current Assets: Selected Items
Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-08-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-05-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-02-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-11-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-08-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-05-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-02-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-11-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-08-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-05-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-02-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-06-01), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-03-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-12-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-09-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-06-02), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-03-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-11-25), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-08-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-05-27), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-02-25), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-11-26), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-08-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-05-28).
The asset profile reflects a significant contraction in the overall financial position, with total assets peaking at approximately 8.01 billion USD in November 2019 before declining to 4.67 billion USD by August 2022. This downward trajectory indicates a substantial reduction in the company's resource base over the latter half of the analyzed period.
- Liquidity and Cash Position
- Cash and cash equivalents exhibited high volatility, reaching a peak of 1.46 billion USD in November 2020. However, a severe depletion followed, with cash reserves falling to 135.3 million USD by August 2022. This trend is further compounded by the disappearance of short-term investment securities, which were prominent between 2018 and 2020 but became negligible by 2022, signaling a critical erosion of liquid assets.
- Inventory and Current Assets
- Merchandise inventories showed a consistent long-term decline, moving from a high of 3.27 billion USD in November 2016 to 1.58 billion USD in August 2022. This reduction in inventory, combined with a decrease in prepaid expenses and other current assets, contributed to a broader contraction of total current assets, which fell from a peak of 4.48 billion USD in December 2018 to 1.90 billion USD in August 2022.
- Non-current Asset Transformations
- Property and equipment, net, remained relatively stable near 1.8 billion USD until 2020, after which a sharp decline occurred, ending at 1.12 billion USD in August 2022. A significant accounting shift is observed in June 2019 with the introduction of operating lease assets, which initially appeared at 1.99 billion USD and gradually decreased to 1.47 billion USD. Furthermore, goodwill was completely eliminated from the balance sheet after March 2019, indicating full impairment of previously recognized intangible assets.
- Overall Asset Base Stability
- The total asset base transitioned from a period of relative growth and stability between 2016 and 2019 to a period of sustained decline from 2020 through 2022. The combination of dwindling cash reserves, reduced inventory levels, and the write-down of fixed assets and goodwill reflects a systemic reduction in the company's operational scale and financial capacity.
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