Sealy Corporation Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis
- The report contains detailed information about Sealy Corporation that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
- Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Sealy Corporation. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
- The Sealy Corporation financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
- In the part that describes Sealy Corporation competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
- Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Sealy Corporation business.
About Sealy Corporation
Sealy Corporation engages in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of conventional bedding products in North and South America, and Europe. The companys products include mattresses and box springs, as well as specialty bedding products, including latex and visco-elastic mattresses.
Segments
The company has operations in two segments, including the Americas and Europe. Its both segments manufacture and market conventional and specialty bedding products. The Americas segment operations are concentrated in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Puerto Rico. The Europe segment operations are concentrated in western Europe.
Products
The company produces sleep sets across a range of technologies, including innerspring, latex foam and visco-elastic memory foam, and sells them in diverse geographies in the Americas and Europe. It offers a line of innerspring bedding products in sizes ranging from twin to king size. The companys products include a Sealy Posturepedic innerspring line; the Sealy Posturepedic PurEmbrace mattress featuring its proprietary SmartLatex; its redesigned Stearns & Foster product line, which features its Variable Response Technology foam to provide a softer, more indulgent sleep surface; three new Stearns & Foster models to target the upper-end luxury price points; and Posturepedic beds.
In the Americas and Europe, the company also produces various latex foam, and visco-elastic memory foam bedding products for the specialty bedding category. In its other international markets within the Americas, the company also offers a range of products. In each market, it offers a line of innerspring and specialty products under the Sealy and local brand names.
In Europe, the company produces, markets, and distributes latex products that are produced through a proprietary, continuous production process and sold to customers in the European retail market. In addition to its retail focus, its Europe segment sells latex components to other mattress, furniture and automotive manufacturers worldwide.
International Operations
The company has 100% owned subsidiaries in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, France and Italy, which has marketing and manufacturing responsibilities for those markets. It has three manufacturing and distribution center facilities in Canada and one each in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, France and Italy, which comprise all of the company-owned manufacturing operations outside of the U.S. The company participates in a group of joint ventures with its Australian licensee to import, manufacture, distribute and sell Sealy products in Southeast Asia. It has a 50% interest in a joint venture with its Australian licensee, which owns the assets of its New Zealand licensee.
Customers
In the U.S., the company serves a diversified base of approximately 3,000 customers, including furniture stores, specialty bedding stores, department stores and warehouse club stores. In Europe, it sells finished mattresses to approximately 4,000 customers, including furniture stores, specialty bedding stores and department stores. Additionally, Europe sells latex components to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in various industries, though the primary focus is bedding or furniture applications.
Dispositions
In December 2008, the company sold a 50% interest in its operations in South Korea to its Australian licensee and these operations became part of the group of joint ventures. The South Korean operation principally consists of a sales office that uses a contract manufacturer to service the South Korean market.
Competition
The company competes with Simmons Company and Serta, Inc.
History
Sealy Corporation was founded in 1881.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
DISCLAIMER
1. SEALY CORPORATION COMPANY PROFILE
1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History
2. SEALY CORPORATION BUSINESS OVERVIEW
2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units
3. SEALY CORPORATION SWOT ANALYSIS
3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats
4. SEALY CORPORATION FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot
5. SEALY CORPORATION COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
5.1. Sealy Corporation Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Sealy Corporation and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Sealy Corporation and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Sealy Corporation Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Appliances and Furniture Industry Snapshot
5.4.2. Sealy Corporation Industry Position Analysis
6. SEALY CORPORATION NEWS & EVENTS
6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events
7. SEALY CORPORATION EXPERTS REVIEW1
7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions
8. SEALY CORPORATION ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS2
9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS2
9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors
10. SEALY CORPORATION IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES2
10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix
11. SEALY CORPORATION PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS2
12. SEALY CORPORATION VRIO ANALYSIS2
APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS
LIST OF FIGURES
Sealy Corporation Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Sealy Corporation 1-year Stock Charts
Sealy Corporation 5-year Stock Charts
Sealy Corporation vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Sealy Corporation vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Sealy Corporation Article Density Chart
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Sealy Corporation Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Sealy Corporation Key Executives
Sealy Corporation Major Shareholders
Sealy Corporation History
Sealy Corporation Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Sealy Corporation Offices and Representations
Sealy Corporation SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Sealy Corporation Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Sealy Corporation Capital Market Snapshot
Sealy Corporation Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Appliances and Furniture Industry Statistics
Sealy Corporation Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Sealy Corporation Consensus Recommendations1
Analyst Recommendation Summary1
Price Target Summary1
Experts Recommendation Trends1
Revenue Estimates Analysis1
Earnings Estimates Analysis1
Historical Surprises1
Revenue Estimates Trend1
Earnings Estimates Trend1
Revenue Revisions1
SWOT Analysis
SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.
Enhanced SWOT Analysis
Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:
- How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
- How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
- How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
- How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?
Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.
PESTEL Analysis
PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.
Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.
Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:
- Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
- Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
- Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
- Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
- Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
- Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?
IFE, EFE, IE Matrices
The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.
The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.
The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.
Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.
Porter Five Forces Analysis
The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:
- What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
- Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
- What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
- How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
- How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?
VRIO Analysis
VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:
- Tangible resources
- Financial
- Physical
- Technological
- Organizational
- Intangible resources
- Human
- Innovation and Creativity
- Reputation
- Organizational capabilities
The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:
- Valuable?
- Rare?
- Costly to imitate?
- Organized properly?
