Autodesk is a profitable rapidgrowth software and service co

Autodesk is a profitable, rapid-growth software and service company. This pre- sumably justifies the firm not paying a cash dividend. Go to ww box. Scroll down and click \"Income Statement\" in the margin at the left. Compute the following ratios for the most recent full year, and compare them to the following stock analysts\' target numbers for the company: I. 2. w.finance.yahoo.com and enter ADSK (Autodesk) in the \"Get Quotes\" 3. Target a. Net income Total revenue b. Cost of revenue/Total revenue. c. Selling, general, and administrative 8% 12 expense/Total revenue .. d. Income tax expense/Total revenue 55 4. Write a one-paragraph summary about Autodesk\'s ability to beat the analysts targets in step 1. Do not automatically assume the firm will be able to beat the target numbers because Autodesk is in a highly competitive environment. Some years it will beat the target numbers and other years it will not. Note: Occasionally a topic we have listed may have been deleted, updated, or moved into a different location on a website. If you click on the site map or site index, you will be introduced to a table of contents that should aid you in finding the topic you are looking for

Solution

a. -582100/2031000%= -28.66%

b. 301900/2031000% = 14.86 %

c.1310300/2031000%=64.52%

d. 58300/2031000% = 5.87%

The above are calculated on the basis on financials for the year ended 31/1/17 since the financials for 31/1/18 are incomplete on yahoo website.

4. There seems very little chance that the company would meet or beat analyst expectations since it is performing not well in all spheres. Cot of revene is 14.86% as compared to expectation of 12% and selling general and admin cost which is 64.52% as compared to 55% of analyst expectations.