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: 2022-06-30), 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), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-09-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-06-30), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-03-31).
Total assets exhibited a persistent downward trajectory over the analyzed period, declining from 24,537 million USD in March 2017 to 18,286 million USD by June 2022. This contraction represents a reduction of approximately 25% in the overall asset base, characterized by a steady erosion of noncurrent assets and significant volatility within current asset accounts.
- Current Asset Trends
- Current assets fluctuated significantly, reaching a period low of 1,405 million USD in June 2020 before recovering to 2,808 million USD by June 2022. Cash and cash equivalents demonstrated high volatility, starting at 2,490 million USD in March 2017, dropping to a low of 522 million USD in June 2020, and ending at 1,162 million USD. Conversely, net receivables showed a general upward trend, increasing from 751 million USD in early 2017 to 1,512 million USD by mid-2022, suggesting a shift in the composition of short-term liquidity.
- Fixed Asset Depletion
- Property, plant, and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, depletion, and amortization, remained the primary component of the balance sheet but experienced a consistent decline. Values decreased from a peak of 18,337 million USD in June 2017 to 14,357 million USD by June 2022. This steady reduction indicates that depreciation and depletion charges have outpaced new capital expenditures over the five-year span.
- Investment and Other Asset Shifts
- Equity method investments followed a gradual downward trend, falling from 906 million USD in March 2017 to 528 million USD in June 2022. Goodwill remained stable at 115 million USD until 2019, after which it was removed from the recorded assets. A notable emergence of deferred tax assets occurred in early 2022, peaking at 554 million USD in March 2022 before adjusting to 325 million USD by June 2022.
- Operational Asset Stability
- Inventories remained remarkably stable throughout the period, consistently oscillating between 72 million USD and 145 million USD, indicating a consistent operational approach to inventory management despite broader fluctuations in total asset value.
The data indicates a strategic or operational contraction of the balance sheet, driven largely by the reduction in net property, plant, and equipment and a decline in long-term equity investments. While the 2020 period marked a significant trough in liquidity, the subsequent increase in receivables and a partial recovery in cash reserves by June 2022 suggest a stabilization of the current asset position.
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