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: 2023-12-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-09-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2023-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-03-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-12-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-09-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-07-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-04-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-10-01), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-07-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-04-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-01-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-10-02), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-07-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-04-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-01-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-10-04), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-06-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-03-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-12-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-09-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-06-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-03-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-12-29), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-09-29).
Total assets have exhibited a consistent downward trajectory over the analyzed period, contracting from 30,505 million USD in September 2017 to 24,385 million USD by December 2023. This overall reduction is primarily driven by a significant decline in current assets and the steady amortization of intangible assets, which was only partially offset by modest growth in property, plant, and equipment and other non-current assets.
- Liquidity and Current Asset Trends
- Cash and cash equivalents experienced a substantial long-term decline, falling from 6,886 million USD in September 2017 to 2,481 million USD in December 2023. This reduction reflects a diminished cash cushion over the six-year span. Concurrently, inventories showed a general upward trend, increasing from 2,302 million USD to a peak of 3,979 million USD in March 2023 before settling at 3,216 million USD at the end of the period. This indicates a shift in current asset composition where liquidity shifted from cash into inventory.
- Accounts receivable, net, demonstrated volatility, reaching a low of 1,204 million USD in June 2019 before peaking at 2,743 million USD in December 2021 and ultimately declining to 1,523 million USD by December 2023.
- Non-Current Asset Composition
- Other intangible assets, net, showed the most aggressive decline of any balance sheet item, plummeting from 3,545 million USD in September 2017 to 79 million USD in December 2023. This suggests a systematic amortization of acquired intangible assets over time.
- Goodwill remained remarkably stable throughout the period, maintaining a value near 10,000 million USD, indicating that no significant impairment charges were recognized against the company's goodwill during this timeframe.
- Property, plant and equipment, net, grew steadily from 3,048 million USD to 3,315 million USD, signaling continued capital investment in physical infrastructure despite the overall contraction of the total asset base.
- Other non-current assets grew consistently, rising from 557 million USD in September 2017 to 1,772 million USD in December 2023.
- Structural Asset Shifts
- The balance sheet has transitioned from a high-cash, high-intangible position toward one characterized by higher inventory levels and increased other non-current assets. The reduction in total assets is largely a result of the erosion of the cash balance and the nearly complete amortization of intangible assets, while the growth in property, plant, and equipment suggests a strategic focus on maintaining or expanding production capacity.
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