At and T Research Paper

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AT&T has seen tremendous changes to its industry in the last ten years, including the rise of mobile services that have greatly expanded the use of data by AT&T customers. This has in turn provided the company with significant retail opportunities, since it is now a vendor of mobile devices and this has become the major income driver for the company. However, this technology also requires substantial investment in infrastructure, which offsets some of the gains.

The financial performance going back ten years for AT&T is reflected in the following ratios, where are derived from figures gathered from the firm's annual reports:

Current Ratio

Cash Ratio

Gross Margin

Operating Margin

Net Margin

LT Debt/Equity

Debt Ratio

ROE

ROA

These figures show that in general, AT&T has been a successful company. Over the past ten years, the general trend is that the company is getting larger. For example, revenues in 2003 were $34 billion and in 2012 they were $127 billion. The same trend exists with the size of the company. In 2003, the total assets for AT&T were around $48 billion. Today, total assets are around $272 billion. These dramatic size increases owe much to the rise of mobile technology. The first generation iPhone was introduced, with AT&T having exclusivity over the product in the United States in June, 2007. While the Blackberry and Palm -- the former in particular -- were popular predecessors to the modern smartphone, the mobile revolution was kicked off for all intents and purposes with the launch of the iPhone.
AT&T's revenues increased 88% that year from $63 billion to $118 billion, a level from which it has only moved slightly. Once the mobile revolution began, AT&T has actually not seen much revenue growth, because it captured so much of the market right away. It should be noted that this spike in revenue was not related to an acquisition -- the company's total assets grew in 2006 but not 2007. In 2006, AT&T nearly doubled in size through acquisitions.

The broad trend in the ratios is that AT&T's ratios worsened for a time around when it was growing rapidly, but have begun to improve in recent years. The first category that will be examined is the liquidity ratios. These peaked in 2003, when they were at a relatively healthy level. There was a general decline in the health of AT&T, in liquidity terms especially, during….....

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