Staples (Staples) Asset Turnover : 0.52 (As of Jul. 2017)

Staples Asset Turnover Chart

Staples Annual Data
	Trend	Jan08	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11	Jan12	Jan13	Jan14	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17
Asset Turnover		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1.90	1.97	1.83	1.83	1.98

Staples Quarterly Data
	Oct12	Jan13	Apr13	Jul13	Oct13	Jan14	Apr14	Jul14	Oct14	Jan15	Apr15	Jul15	Oct15	Jan16	Apr16	Jul16	Oct16	Jan17	Apr17	Jul17
Asset Turnover	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.36	0.57	0.34	0.53	0.52

Competitive Comparison of Staples's Asset Turnover

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Staples's Asset Turnover, along with its competitors' market caps and Asset Turnover data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Staples's Asset Turnover Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Staples's Asset Turnover distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Staples's Asset Turnover falls into.

Staples Asset Turnover Calculation

Asset Turnover measures how quickly a company turns over its asset through sales.

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

Staples's Asset Turnover 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.

Companies with low profit margins tend to have high Asset Turnover, while those with high profit margins have low Asset Turnover. Companies in the retail industry tend to have a very high turnover ratio.

Staples  (NAS:SPLS) Asset Turnover Explanation

Asset Turnover is linked to ROE % through Du Pont Formula.

Staples's annulized ROE % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2017 is

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

* 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.

^** The ROE % used above is for Du Pont Analysis only. It is different from the defined ROE % page on our website, as here it uses Net Income instead of Net Income attributable to Common Stockholders in the calculation.

It is also linked to ROA % through Du Pont Formula:

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

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

* 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.

Be Aware

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.

Therefore, it is a good sign if a company's Asset Turnover is consistent or even increases. If a company's asset grows faster than sales, its Asset Turnover will decline, which can be a warning sign.

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