Executive summary of business analysis
of the ROKU Company
This report is related to the business analysis of
the ROKU Company. In the first part of the report, there will be complete
information on the information about the company. This company was founded in
2002, and it is also a private company. The overview of the company is described
in a proper way.
Then after this in the next chapter, there is complete
information about the latest condition of the company. For explaining this, there is a need for
internal and external analysis. Thus, firstly, there is comprehensive
information on the SWOT analysis of the company. It can be noted that the main
strength of the company is that they are providing different kinds of features
related to digital media.
Then after this, their main weakness is their business
model is not simple. The main problem is that this company is not able to
produce a stable market price for their customers. The major plus point of this
company is a number of opportunities for the future. The best opportunity is
that the number of people is increasing day by day and also the demand of the
customers. The major threat to this company is that the competition level is
increasing day by day because the demand for the internet is increasing. After
this, for the external analysis of the business report, there is a complete
PESTLE analysis in which all factors will be discussed in detail.
Later on, in the business report, there is
comprehensive information on the critical issues and its implication on the
ROKU Company. In that part, there are some factors that are discussed in detail,
like the rate of competition and pricing and also the TiVo problem for the
major stock of the company. Then in the implication section, there is
comprehensive information on the latest business opportunities for this company
in detail.
Moreover, the next chapter of the report is related
to the strategic direction of the company. In that part, the mission and vision
statement will be discussed in detail. Their value statement will be explained
in a proper way with a complete demonstration.
The next chapter of the report is extremely important.
The reason is that it is related to the organizational structure of the
company. It can be noted that in this company, there are about 7 senior vice
presidents. Also, this company also contains a huge span of a management system
that is involved in decentralized responsibilities. The next point is that this
company also contain a functional organizational structure. The current
organizational structure of the company is perfect and also reliable for the
employees and also the other departments of this company.
The culture of the company is also good for its
employees at ROKU. It can be seen that this organization is involved in
recruiting the best and ideal people for the company, and the whole company consists
of independent thinkers. This company is not requiring any kind of experience
for critical thinking. In this section, there is also some information about
the board of directors of the company. It can be noted that there are about 6
members of the company that are working with the CEO. There is also some board
of directors that are consulted with other companies.
Then after this, there is comprehensive information about
the CEO of the company. The name of ROKU’s CEO is Anthony Woods. In that part,
there is complete information about how the CEO of the company was able to
attain such a mark in the market and also some information related to his
educational background in detail. There are detail and comprehensive information
about the story of Mr. Woods.
The last chapter of the report is extremely important
because it is completely based on the financial statements of the company. It
can be noted that this company is struggling in financial performance. The main
reason is that the salary of the CEO is extremely high then the other company’s
CEO. In the last some years, it can be noted that they have shown some ideal
growth in their assets that will easily minimize their debts. The value of the
assets is gradually increasing year by year, and also the value of liabilities is
decreasing after every year.
The major factor is that as the value of liabilities is
decreasing for the ROKU Company, then there is also an increase in the
stockholder’s equity. The best thing is that the value of equity is also
gradually increasing for the company. This also shows that this company also doesn’t
require any kind of financial debt to carry out the major tasks for the
company.
In the given report, there are also some graphs and
tables that are explaining the complete information about the earnings and
revenue history of the company. The graphs that are showing information about
the streaming hours of the company that are increasing after every year. The
value of average revenue is also increasing after every year, but the main
thing is that it is increasing quite slowly.
Furthermore, in the next section of the report, there
is complete information about the key ratios of the company. There is also
information about the earning per share of the company from the last three
years. It can be noted that this value is quite low; more information about
this value is explained in detail in the given section.
It can be noted that this company is completely debt-free
so its cash and short term investment value is extremely high. Now in the last
part of the chapter, there is a complete analysis of this company with its key
competitors. This analysis will give information to the stakeholders on how
they can easily invest in this company, or it will be profitable to invest or
not. It can be noted that the Google Company is extremely better than the ROKU
Company. There are some key values discussed in detail in the table form that
will give complete information about how ROKU Company is falling behind from
its key competitors.