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 general upward trajectory over the analyzed period, increasing from 17.096 billion USD in March 2017 to 23.986 billion USD by June 2022. This expansion was characterized by a significant step-increase between December 2017 and March 2018 and a more aggressive acceleration in growth during the 2021 to 2022 period.
- Current Asset Dynamics
- Current assets more than doubled over the period, rising from 3.216 billion USD to 7.299 billion USD. This growth was primarily driven by inventories and receivables. Inventories showed a consistent long-term increase, moving from 1.534 billion USD in March 2017 to a peak of 3.641 billion USD in June 2022, indicating a substantial increase in stored goods or raw materials. Receivables remained relatively stable until late 2021, after which they surged from 1.082 billion USD in June 2021 to 2.252 billion USD by June 2022, suggesting an expansion in credit sales or a slowdown in collection cycles.
- Cash and cash equivalents demonstrated significant volatility. A notable peak occurred in December 2017 at 2.154 billion USD, followed by a period of contraction and subsequent recovery, reaching 1.418 billion USD in June 2021 before stabilizing around 839 million USD by the end of the period.
- Noncurrent Asset Trends
- Property, plant and equipment (PP&E) experienced a sharp increase of approximately 2.1 billion USD between December 2017 and March 2018, rising from 9.712 billion USD to 11.865 billion USD. Following this jump, PP&E remained the largest component of the balance sheet, generally fluctuating between 11 billion and 12.8 billion USD.
- Goodwill remained steady at approximately 1.6 to 1.7 billion USD until December 2019, when it decreased to 1.157 billion USD. This suggests a non-cash impairment charge during that period, after which the value stabilized around 1.1 to 1.2 billion USD.
- Investments in nonconsolidated companies showed a gradual decline from 1.064 billion USD in March 2017 to a low of 668.7 million USD in June 2021, before slightly recovering to 756.8 million USD by June 2022.
- Deferred Tax and Other Assets
- Deferred income taxes exhibited substantial fluctuations, reaching a minimum of 254.6 million USD in December 2017 and peaking at 1.179 billion USD in December 2020, before declining to 818.2 million USD by June 2022.
- Other assets remained relatively stable throughout the analyzed timeframe, oscillating between 1.073 billion USD and 1.653 billion USD.
The overall asset structure shifted over time, with a growing proportion of total assets held in current assets, particularly inventories and receivables, toward the end of the period. The combination of an expanded PP&E base and a surge in working capital assets suggests a period of significant operational scaling and increased resource commitment.
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