Staples (Staples) Total Assets : $7,666 Mil (As of Jul. 2017)

Staples Total Assets Chart

Staples Annual Data
	Trend	Jan08	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11	Jan12	Jan13	Jan14	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17
Total Assets		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					12,280.01	11,174.88	10,308.00	10,172.00	8,271.00

Staples Quarterly Data
	Oct12	Jan13	Apr13	Jul13	Oct13	Jan14	Apr14	Jul14	Oct14	Jan15	Apr15	Jul15	Oct15	Jan16	Apr16	Jul16	Oct16	Jan17	Apr17	Jul17
Total Assets	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															9,483.00	9,387.00	8,271.00	7,510.00	7,666.00

Staples Total Assets Calculation

Total Assets are all the assets a company owns.

From the capital sources of the assets, some of the assets are funded through shareholder's paid in capital and retained earnings of the business. Others are funded through borrowed money.

Staples's Total Assets for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2017 is calculated as

Staples's Total Assets for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2017 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Staples  (NAS:SPLS) Total Assets Explanation

Total Assets is connected with ROA %.

Staples's annualized ROA % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2017 is

Note: The Net Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Jul. 2017) data.

In the article Joining The Dark Side: Pirates, Spies and Short Sellers, James Montier reported that In their US sample covering the period 1968-2003, Cooper et al find that firms with low asset growth outperformed firms with high asset growth by an astounding 20% p.a. equally weighted. Even when controlling for market, size and style, low asset growth firms outperformed high asset growth firms by 13% p.a. Therefore a company with fast asset growth may underperform.

Total Assets is linked to total revenue through Asset Turnover.

Staples's Asset Turnover for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2017 is

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Therefore, if a company grows its Total Assets faster than its Revenue, the Asset Turnover will decline. This might be a warning sign for the business.

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