Quote (obisent @ Jun 4 2020 09:30pm)
Got more details on this? Im not in atm but looking for an entry b4 earnings are released, don’t mind being wrong on this one if it saves me money.
Can pm.
In a nutshell, understated deferred revenue. Revenue increased $2.1bn in FY 19, and deferred revenue increased by $447m to $3.5bn. Revenue has increased at a far greater rate than deferred revenue. Maybe if their cloud service sales were a lower proportion in comparison to non-prepaid services it could be feasible but the product mix would have to had changed significantly. The information in their reports I've seen don't go into any detail on this stuff,
Current liabilities increased FY18 $4.3bn to $8.2bn in FY19, primarily driven by short term debt of $3,1bn. Was zero the year before as it was held as a NCL so that debt is due within a year. This is a company with enough cash to pay it so that's not a problem, but usually companies will pay off their debt over time with interest rates being so low, and use their extra cash to increase their productive capacity. Why aren't they doing this?
It doesn't make sense to me, there are no IFRS changes that could be driving such crazy swings in comparative data, the most recent major one was to leases/right of use assets and isn't really relevant to Adobe's business. I mean, they generate a ton of cash and stuff but with the aforementioned concerns and that CAPE ratio, I wouldn't be enthralled at the prospect of investing,