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Netra Shetty
Adaptec is a computer hardware company based in Milpitas, California that primarily produces host adapters for connecting storage devices to computers. The production line of company is in Indonesia. Products are made to interface with USB, FireWire, SCSI, iSCSI, FibreChannel, Serial ATA, as well as audio/video. Some accessory hardware such as USB hubs are also produced by the company. It also sells network-attached storage devices, including the Snap Server product line.
Adaptec Easy CD Creator is a now-obsolete suite of CD/DVD authoring and associated programs bundled with many early CD writers. It is now supported by spinoff Roxio.
Adaptec channel
The methodologist for this unique study is Philip Parker, Eli Lilly Chair Professor of Innovation, Business and Society at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France and Singapore). According to Professor Parker, “With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of barriers to entry, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company’s financial indicators on a worldwide basis. World stock markets have recently witnessed a return to fundamental financial analysis. ” The goal of the reports is to assist consultants, financial managers, strategic planners, and corporate officers in gauging certain indicators of Adaptec Inc.’s financial and human resource structure.
The report has benchmarked Adaptec Inc. against competing firms in the Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing industry worldwide—going beyond traditional methods of company benchmarking. The results are two specialized reports: (1) global financial benchmarks using common-size statement ratios (vertical analysis), and (2) labor productivity and utilization measures collected across borders.
Coverage
Two reports, financial ratios and labor productivity ratios, are available for Adaptec Inc.. Each report reveals productivity and industry ranks for Adaptec Inc. in the Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing industry. Reports for the following and many other Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing companies are available now:
Acer Sertek Inc.
Adaptec Inc.
Adi Corp
Cal-Comp Electronics (Thailand)
Canon Electronics Inc.
Canon Inc.
Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited
Domino Printing Sciences plc
Dynamics Research Corporation
Electronic For Imaging Incorporated
Extreme Networks, Inc.
Genicom Corporation
Key Tronic Corporation
Lafe Technologies Ltd
Lexmark International, Incorporated
Manufacturers' Services Limited
Metrologic Instruments, Inc.
MicroTouch Systems, Inc.
National Instruments Corporation
Printronix, Inc.
RSA Security Incorporated
Star Micronics Co Ltd
Symbol Technologies, Inc
Zebra Technologies Corporation
The vertical analysis deals with questions like: How has Adaptec Inc.’s asset structure varied compared to global benchmarks for the Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing industry? Does it generally hold more cash and other short-term assets, or does it tend to concentrate its assets in physical plant and equipment? On the liability side, does Adaptec Inc. typically have a higher percent of payables compared to the benchmarks, or does it hold a higher concentration of long-term debt? Does Adaptec Inc. have a relatively higher cost of goods sold, operating costs, or income taxes compared to global benchmarks? Have Adaptec Inc.’s returns on equity been higher or its profit margins greater?
While the labor productivity analysis answers the following: What has been the ratio of short-term and long-term assets to employee? What are typical capital-labor ratios? What are the average sales and net profits per employee compared to global benchmarks?
Professor Parker notes, "We are intrigued by the wide variations in basic financial and productivity measures between Adaptec Inc. and other Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing companies. The Earnings Before Interest And Taxes (EBIT), for example, varied from -4.35 to 117.7. We see this type of variation in the hundreds of ratios that we estimate.”
Most vertical analyses merely focus on benchmarking against domestic ratios, often published by government agencies or commercial sources. In contrast, the report calculates thousands of industry norms by looking at firms at the global level, pooling statistics on tens of thousands of companies across over 40 countries, and applying a seven-stage methodology: (1) identification of industry classifications, (2) firm-level data collection and aggregation, (3) standardization of raw statistics, (4) filtering outliers, (5) calculation of global norms, (6) projection of deviations and gaps, and (7) projection of ranks and percentiles. For each part of the financial statement, the larger structural differences and gaps between Adaptec Inc.. and the global benchmarks are provided with summary tables of ranks and percentiles.
Previously available only through booksellers such as Hoovers, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble, two studies are now available direct from the publisher at a 50% discount off the cover price. This special offer includes International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis and Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis at US$ $420 ($210) each.
Adaptec Easy CD Creator is a now-obsolete suite of CD/DVD authoring and associated programs bundled with many early CD writers. It is now supported by spinoff Roxio.
Adaptec channel
The methodologist for this unique study is Philip Parker, Eli Lilly Chair Professor of Innovation, Business and Society at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France and Singapore). According to Professor Parker, “With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of barriers to entry, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company’s financial indicators on a worldwide basis. World stock markets have recently witnessed a return to fundamental financial analysis. ” The goal of the reports is to assist consultants, financial managers, strategic planners, and corporate officers in gauging certain indicators of Adaptec Inc.’s financial and human resource structure.
The report has benchmarked Adaptec Inc. against competing firms in the Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing industry worldwide—going beyond traditional methods of company benchmarking. The results are two specialized reports: (1) global financial benchmarks using common-size statement ratios (vertical analysis), and (2) labor productivity and utilization measures collected across borders.
Coverage
Two reports, financial ratios and labor productivity ratios, are available for Adaptec Inc.. Each report reveals productivity and industry ranks for Adaptec Inc. in the Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing industry. Reports for the following and many other Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing companies are available now:
Acer Sertek Inc.
Adaptec Inc.
Adi Corp
Cal-Comp Electronics (Thailand)
Canon Electronics Inc.
Canon Inc.
Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited
Domino Printing Sciences plc
Dynamics Research Corporation
Electronic For Imaging Incorporated
Extreme Networks, Inc.
Genicom Corporation
Key Tronic Corporation
Lafe Technologies Ltd
Lexmark International, Incorporated
Manufacturers' Services Limited
Metrologic Instruments, Inc.
MicroTouch Systems, Inc.
National Instruments Corporation
Printronix, Inc.
RSA Security Incorporated
Star Micronics Co Ltd
Symbol Technologies, Inc
Zebra Technologies Corporation
The vertical analysis deals with questions like: How has Adaptec Inc.’s asset structure varied compared to global benchmarks for the Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing industry? Does it generally hold more cash and other short-term assets, or does it tend to concentrate its assets in physical plant and equipment? On the liability side, does Adaptec Inc. typically have a higher percent of payables compared to the benchmarks, or does it hold a higher concentration of long-term debt? Does Adaptec Inc. have a relatively higher cost of goods sold, operating costs, or income taxes compared to global benchmarks? Have Adaptec Inc.’s returns on equity been higher or its profit margins greater?
While the labor productivity analysis answers the following: What has been the ratio of short-term and long-term assets to employee? What are typical capital-labor ratios? What are the average sales and net profits per employee compared to global benchmarks?
Professor Parker notes, "We are intrigued by the wide variations in basic financial and productivity measures between Adaptec Inc. and other Computer Peripheral Equipment manufacturing companies. The Earnings Before Interest And Taxes (EBIT), for example, varied from -4.35 to 117.7. We see this type of variation in the hundreds of ratios that we estimate.”
Most vertical analyses merely focus on benchmarking against domestic ratios, often published by government agencies or commercial sources. In contrast, the report calculates thousands of industry norms by looking at firms at the global level, pooling statistics on tens of thousands of companies across over 40 countries, and applying a seven-stage methodology: (1) identification of industry classifications, (2) firm-level data collection and aggregation, (3) standardization of raw statistics, (4) filtering outliers, (5) calculation of global norms, (6) projection of deviations and gaps, and (7) projection of ranks and percentiles. For each part of the financial statement, the larger structural differences and gaps between Adaptec Inc.. and the global benchmarks are provided with summary tables of ranks and percentiles.
Previously available only through booksellers such as Hoovers, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble, two studies are now available direct from the publisher at a 50% discount off the cover price. This special offer includes International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis and Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis at US$ $420 ($210) each.