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Whether you're walking a tightrope or scribbling in your checkbook, balance is a good thing. And, one of the best ways to evaluate a company is to glance at its balance sheet to see what it owns with what it owes.
The balance sheet is a paragon of simplicity and is made up of three components: assets (the stuff it owns), liabilities (the money it owes), and shareholders' equity (the company's value to its shareholders).
Assets take two forms: short-term (or current) assets and long-term assets. Under short-term, there¿s good ol' hard cash. Then, there¿s something called "cash equivalents," which are assets like short-term bonds that can be sold so quickly, they might as well be cash. There you factor in inventory, which (if you're a reasonably competent business owner) you can sell to customers in return for--you guessed it--cash. (The raw materials a company owns to make that inventory also falls under this category.)
Long-term assets are things that are harder to convert into cash. (Think real estate and equipment.) Long-term assets depreciate, meaning they lose some value over time. Also under the long-term category are what's called intangible assets: things like patents and brands, that are important, but hard to quantify. Accountants earn their stripes figuring out the real overall value of these assets.
Once you know your assets, it's time for liabilities. As with assets, liabilities are separated into short-term or current, and long-term. Current liabilities are what a company owes in that year: Things like payments to employees or accounts payable to suppliers. Long-term liabilities are debts paid over several years.
Shareholders' equity is determined by subtracting the liabilities from the assets. That number represents the value of the company after all its bills are paid.
Obviously, investors should pay close attention to balance sheets. Spikes in the amount of debt carried, or a reduction in shareholders' equity, are usually red flags.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
DemandTec Added to Russell 2000 Index
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SAN CARLOS, Calif., July 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ ----DemandTec Inc. (Nasdaq: DMAN), a leading provider of on-demand optimization solutions for retailers and consumer products manufacturers, today announced that it has been added to the Russell 2000(R) Index, effective as of the close of business on June 27, 2008.
Membership in the Russell 2000, which remains in place for one year, includes automatic inclusion into the broader Russell 3000(R) Index as well as the appropriate growth and style indexes. Russell determines membership for its equity indexes primarily by objective, market capitalization rankings, and style attributes.
"We are very pleased to be included in the Russell 2000 Index following our successful IPO in August of 2007," said Dan Fishback, CEO, DemandTec. "We believe our inclusion in the index will help increase our visibility to a larger group of institutional investors and index funds."
Russell Indexes are often referenced by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and are used as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. Inclusion in the various Russell Indexes is determined by market capitalization. Russell weights members of each index by float-adjusted market capitalization and explicitly excludes "locked-up" shares from IPO weights. As IPOs are added each quarter, Russell does not delete current members to make room, but fully reconstitutes each index annually at the end of the second quarter.
The annual reconstitution of the Russell Indexes captures the 3,000 largest U.S. stocks, ranking them by total market capitalization to create the Russell 3000. The largest 1,000 companies in the ranking comprise the Russell 1000(R), while the remaining 2,000 companies become the extensively-used Russell 2000.
About DemandTec
DemandTec (Nasdaq: DMAN) enables retailers and consumer products companies to optimize merchandising and marketing decisions, individually or collaboratively, to achieve their sales volume, revenue, and profitability objectives. DemandTec software services utilize DemandTec's science-based software platform to model and understand consumer behavior. DemandTec customers include more than 140 leading retail and consumer products manufacturers such as Advance Auto Parts, Best Buy, Circle K Stores, ConAgra Foods, Delhaize America, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Giant-Carlisle, H-E-B Grocery Co., Hormel Foods, Monoprix, Safeway, Sara Lee and Tyson Foods. Connected via the DemandTec TradePoint Network(TM), DemandTec customers have collaborated online on more than one million trade deals. For more information, please visit http://www.demandtec.com.
DemandTec Safe Harbor
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding DemandTec's expectations, hopes, plans, intentions or strategies, including statements about the adoption and effectiveness of DemandTec's solutions used alone or in conjunction with third party solutions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include those described in DemandTec's documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to DemandTec as of the date hereof, and DemandTec assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
DemandTec and the DemandTec logo are registered trademarks of DemandTec, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE DemandTec (DMAN)
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