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-K (reporting date: 2019-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-09-29), 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: 2018-07-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2018-04-01), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-10-01), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-07-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2017-04-02), 10-K (reporting date: 2016-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-10-02), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-07-03), 10-Q (reporting date: 2016-04-03), 10-K (reporting date: 2015-12-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2015-09-27), 10-Q (reporting date: 2015-06-28), 10-Q (reporting date: 2015-03-29).
Total assets exhibited a consistent upward trajectory over the analyzed period, growing from 27,798 million US dollars in March 2015 to 34,566 million US dollars by December 2019. This expansion was driven by incremental growth in both current and noncurrent asset bases, reflecting a broadening of the company's financial footprint.
- Liquidity and Short-Term Asset Trends
- Current assets rose from 10,241 million US dollars in early 2015 to 13,082 million US dollars by the end of 2019. A notable shift occurred in the composition of liquid assets; short-term investments, which stood at 1,234 million US dollars in March 2015, declined steadily and were virtually eliminated from the balance sheet by 2018. Conversely, cash and cash equivalents showed significant volatility, peaking at 4,292 million US dollars in December 2019.
- Contract assets remained a primary component of current assets, fluctuating between 5,223 million US dollars and 6,498 million US dollars. Inventories showed a general increasing trend, rising from 506 million US dollars in March 2015 to a peak of 932 million US dollars in June 2019 before moderating to 671 million US dollars by the end of the period.
- Fixed Asset and Capital Investment
- Property, plant and equipment (net) demonstrated steady organic growth, increasing from 1,906 million US dollars in March 2015 to 3,353 million US dollars in December 2019. This consistent rise indicates sustained capital expenditure and investment in physical infrastructure over the five-year window.
- Intangibles and Noncurrent Asset Composition
- Noncurrent assets grew from 17,557 million US dollars to 21,484 million US dollars. Goodwill remained remarkably stable, hovering around 14.8 billion US dollars for the majority of the period, with a temporary increase to 15,882 million US dollars in June 2019, suggesting a lack of significant acquisition activity impacting the balance sheet for most of the timeframe.
- A structural change in reporting is evident starting in March 2019 with the introduction of operating lease right-of-use assets, which appeared at 816 million US dollars and remained relatively stable through December 2019 at 875 million US dollars.
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