Case Study Option #3: "Go-Pro, Returning to Profitability" 1. What is your asses...
Case Study Option #3: "Go-Pro, Returning to Profitability" 1. What is your assessment of GoPro's business model and competitive strategy? Does its approach to delivering customer value contribute to a sustainable competitive advantage? 2. What are GoPro's key resources and competitive capabilities? Please prepare a SWOT analysis to support your answer. 3. What is your assessment of GoPro's financial performance the past three years? Use the financial ratios in the Appendix of the text as a guide in doing your financial analysis, you need to provide 4 ratios to support your answer. 4. Based on the preceding analysis, and the previous financial quarter profit and loss statement, what is your overall evaluation of GoPro's business situation as the company moves forward? 5. Does the company's strategy have the potential to provide the company's shareholders with an opportunity for above-average market returns in the next 3-5 years? 6. What specific recommendations can you make that would change or improve Go Pro's financial position? 7. What detailed strategic actions would Go Pro's CEO and senior leadership need to take to reestablish GoPro's financial and market performance and initiate your recommendations? 2. What internal resources and capabilities does Rosen have that can give them competitiveP8-31 (similar to) Question Help Your comparison of the gross margin percent for Johnson Drugs for the years 2016 The following additional information is obtained from independent sources and the client's through 2019 indicates a significant decline. This is shown by the following information: records as a means of investigating the controller's explanations: (Click the icon to view t ion.) Data Table X Requirement a. Evaluate th Begin by computing the gro 2019 2018 2017 2016 th percent, XX.X%.) Gross margin % Sales (thousands) $ 14,300 $ 13,100 $ 11,600 $ 10,800 Year Drug sales CGS (thousands) 9,138 8,253 7,273 6,750 2019 Gross margin S 5,162 $ 4,847 $ 4,327 $ 4,050 2018 Percent 36.1 37.0 37.3 37.5 2017 2016 A discussion with Madeline Amrock, the controller, brings to light two possible explanations. She informs you that the industry gross profit percent in the retail drug industry declined fairly steadily for three years, which accounts for part of the decline. A second factor was the declining percent of the total volume resulting from the pharmacy part of the business. The pharmacy sales represent the most profitable portion of the business, yet the competition from discount drugstores prevents it from expanding as fast as the nondrug items such as magazines, candy, and many other items sold. Amrock feels strongly that these two factors are the cause of the decline. Enter any number in the ed ? Print Done 2 parts remaining Check AnswerUnit Sales 3 Frame How at Have 1.500 Ubio 1,700 1 500 5.850 if Total 7.750 7.550 17 835 il Frame Toull It Now or Never 30.08 5 221 430100 725.300.80 In The $ 101.740.00 Ill Veronica $ 139.800.00 Total $1,184 630.00 $4.565.125.00 Cost of Froma Only Punching $421.09 $200.00
