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: 2024-02-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2023-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-05-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-02-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-05-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-02-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-05-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-02-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-05-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-02-29), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-05-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-02-28), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-11-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-08-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-05-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-02-28).
An analysis of the asset structure reveals three distinct phases: a period of relative stability from 2018 to 2019, a phase of aggressive liquidity accumulation between 2020 and 2021, and a subsequent period of asset normalization through February 2024. Total assets peaked at 57.2 billion USD in February 2021, a trend driven primarily by cash reserves rather than the expansion of physical operational assets.
- Liquidity and Cash Management
- Cash and cash equivalents exhibited an extreme surge, rising from a pre-pandemic range of approximately 450 million to 1.2 billion USD to a peak of 9.67 billion USD in February 2021. This suggests a massive capital influx to ensure solvency during a period of severe operational disruption. Following this peak, a steady decline is observed as these funds were utilized, ending at 2.24 billion USD by February 2024.
- Fixed Asset Trajectory
- Property and equipment, net, demonstrated a consistent and steady upward trend, growing from 35.0 billion USD in February 2018 to 41.5 billion USD in February 2024. This indicates a sustained commitment to capital expenditures and fleet maintenance regardless of the volatility observed in current assets.
- Asset Impairment and Valuation
- A significant impairment of goodwill occurred in early 2020, where values dropped from 2.17 billion USD in February 2020 to 790 million USD by May 2020. This valuation continued to decline before stabilizing at 579 million USD from November 2021 through February 2024, reflecting a permanent write-down of intangible asset values.
- Current Asset Composition
- Current assets mirrored the volatility of cash holdings, peaking at 12.46 billion USD in February 2021 before contracting to 4.48 billion USD by February 2024. Trade and other receivables showed a recovery trend in the final year, rising to 644 million USD by February 2024, while inventories grew moderately from 394 million USD in early 2018 to 531 million USD by February 2024.
- Long-term Asset Trends
- Long-term assets transitioned from 39.8 billion USD in February 2018 to a peak of 44.9 billion USD in February 2021, eventually settling at 45.3 billion USD by February 2024. This growth was primarily supported by the increase in net property and equipment, offsetting the substantial losses in goodwill.
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