Crest, Oral-B, Vicks, Always, Bounty, Pampers
Employees: 110 000, +70 countries
Fiscal year ends: 30 June
Headquarter: One Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio
Products: Branded consumer packaged goods of superior quality
Rating (long-term): A-1+ / AA- (S&P), P-1 / Aa3 (Moody’s)
Competitors: Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly Clark, Estee Lauder
• Global Beauty
• Global Baby, Feminine and Family Care
• Global Fabric and Home Care
• Global Health and Grooming
As of 2015, the company had the following statistics:
P&G is focusing on 10 product categories with about 65 brands. About two dozen of P&G’s brands are billion-dollar sellers, including Always, Braun, Crest, Fusion, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Mach3, Olay, Oral-B, Pantene, and Wella in the beauty and grooming segment, as well as Bounty, Charmin, Dawn, Downy, Duracell, Gain, Pampers, and Tide in the household care segment.
P&G’s hundreds of brands are available in more than 180 countries.
The 65 strongest brands in its portfolio across different segments makes PG one of the most diversified companies.
• Revenue and Gross profit are on course to decline for their second straight fiscal year: $84 167 (2013), $83 062 (2014), $76 279 (2015)
• PG is carefully managing its cost base thus cost reduction improved Gross margin slightly, as a result it is about 49.03%.
• Net income, Net margin, Operating margin and Basic EPS continue to strengthen.
Profitability is Stable:
• Operating cash flow has leapt in 2016 so far compared to 2015; Capex has dropped.
As a result, the company posts a near-record level of free cash flow generation improving Retained earnings at the same time.
• ROA and ROE ratios continue to strengthen.
Financial health is High-:
• The company has a manageable leverage, which is truly appealing and been flat over five years.
Valuation price: $206.72 => There is 35% upside to the current market price
Last stock splits: 2:1 (22.02.1983), 2:1 (20.11.1989), 2:1 (15.06.1992), 2:1 (22.09.1997), 2:1 (21.06.2004)
Share repurchase: positive
History
1837: April 12, William Procter and James Gamble start making and selling their soap and candles.
1837: August 22, William Procter and James Gamble formalize their business relationship by pledging $3,596.47 apiece.
1837: The formal partnership agreement is signed on October 31.
1859: P&G reached $1 million in total sales and the company had 80 employees.
1905: May 5, The Company was incorporated in Ohio
1937: P&G celebrates its one-hundredth anniversary; sales reach over $200 million.
1946: Tide laundry detergent is launched.
1961: Pampers disposable diapers are introduced
1967: Ariel is introduced and later becomes one of P&G’s leading global laundry brands
1996: Gillette acquires Duracell, originally founded in the early 1920s.
1998: Mach 3 razor is introduced.
2005: P&G and Gillette merge into one company
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