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
Fidelity National Information Services Inc., consolidated balance sheet: assets (quarterly data)
US$ in millions
Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-03-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-03-31).
The asset structure of the organization underwent three distinct phases between March 2018 and March 2023: a period of stability, a period of massive expansion driven by acquisition activity, and a subsequent period of contraction.
- Current Asset Dynamics
- Current assets remained relatively stable between 3.4 billion and 3.7 billion US dollars through March 2019. A significant anomaly occurred in June 2019, where current assets spiked to 12.5 billion US dollars, primarily driven by a surge in cash and cash equivalents to 9.7 billion US dollars. Following this, current assets stabilized in a range between 8.3 billion and 10.7 billion US dollars. Trade receivables experienced a permanent step-up in September 2019, rising from an average of 1.4 billion US dollars to a range between 3.1 billion and 3.7 billion US dollars, suggesting a substantial increase in the volume of credit-based operations.
- Non-Current Asset Expansion and Impairment
- Non-current assets exhibited the most dramatic volatility. From March 2018 to June 2019, these assets hovered around 20 billion US dollars. In September 2019, non-current assets surged to 74.3 billion US dollars. This increase was almost entirely attributable to a spike in goodwill, which rose from 13.5 billion US dollars to 51.8 billion US dollars, and intangible assets, which rose from 2.8 billion US dollars to 16.0 billion US dollars. This pattern is characteristic of a large-scale corporate acquisition. While goodwill remained elevated above 50 billion US dollars for several years, a sharp decline occurred in December 2022, where it dropped to 34.2 billion US dollars, indicating a significant impairment charge or divestiture.
- Intangible Asset Amortization
- Following the peak in September 2019, intangible assets showed a consistent and linear downward trend, decreasing from 16.0 billion US dollars to 8.5 billion US dollars by March 2023. This steady decline reflects the systematic amortization of acquired intangible assets over time.
- Total Asset Trajectory
- Total assets grew from 24.4 billion US dollars in March 2018 to a peak of 83.8 billion US dollars in December 2019. The balance sheet remained expanded at approximately 80 billion US dollars until September 2022. A contraction phase followed, with total assets falling to 61.0 billion US dollars by March 2023. This overall reduction in the asset base is primarily driven by the reduction in goodwill and the steady amortization of intangible assets, offset only slightly by modest growth in settlement assets and deferred contract costs.
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