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IBISWorld’s AU & NZ Enterprise Profiles analyse the leading 5,000 Australian and New Zealand enterprises, including:

Each profile contains information about an enterprise’s directors, key personnel, financials and ownership structure, and its auditors, bankers and solicitors.

These focus on organisations listed as major players in a core industry. Each report offers more detailed information, including company activities and cross-directorships, and analyses the competitive environment.

These focus on companies that are not major players in a core industry. Each report has eight chapters and includes full financials for each company.

These focus on organisations that are not major players in a core industry and include limited financials (only revenue and employees).

The Company Details chapter provides a high-level overview of an organisation and summarises the key insights contained in the full report.

The Overview gives a visual snapshot of how the company has performed over the past five years, analysing revenue, assets, net profit after tax (NPAT) and employee numbers.

The Description and Company Snapshot provide basic company information, letting you know exactly where the company is based, how to contact them and in which industry it operates. The Company Snapshot also provides the information you need to conduct further research, such as the company’s Australian Business Number and its Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) code (if applicable).

Here you’ll find the industries in which a company operates and those in which it is a major player, with links to each industry of operation in IBISWorld’s Industry Report collection. Use this section to zoom out from the enterprise level and investigate the big picture.

This section provides an overview of a company’s strengths and weaknesses compared with its peer group, and the opportunities and threats its industry faces. These opportunities and threats are linked to IBISWorld’s Business Environment Profiles, enabling you to dig deeper into the conditions an enterprise operates under.

Understand, through a visual breakdown, the different industry divisions an enterprise operates under by percentage of revenue and assets, offering explanations and key statistics for each division.

The Key Personnel chapter provides information on a company’s key personnel, listing all executive and non-executive directors and C-Suite personnel (i.e., CEO, COO, CFO, etc.). It also provides a gender diversity breakdown, both at key personnel and board member levels.

This chapter details up to 10 years of a company’s financial history (where available). It also includes key financials from the company’s profit and loss statement, balance sheet and shareholder’s equity (if applicable), giving you a holistic view of the company’s financial performance.

In this chapter, you’ll find common financial analysis ratios, such as return on shareholder funds, gearing, interest cover, current ratio, profit per employee and earnings per share. This chapter provides key growth and financial ratios for each company over the past five years alongside the industry average, offering an extensive overview of the company’s performance over the past five years.

This interactive chart allows you to compare total revenue to net profit after tax (NPAT). Use it to view a company’s total revenue and NPAT trends over the past five years, adding and removing inputs to focus on what matters most to you.

This interactive chart allows you to compare a company’s revenue to its assets. Use it to view the company’s revenue and assets performance over the past five years, adding and removing inputs to focus on what matters most to you.

This section quantifies a company’s financial growth over the past five years. It also provides the industry’s average growth over the same timeframe so you can benchmark the company’s performance.

Here you’ll find a summary of a company’s financial statements and its overall health.

The Operating Segments chapter aligns each company’s operating segments and results (revenue, profit and assets) with related IBISWorld industry codes. This section also helps you identify if an enterprise is a major player within an industry.

This section segments the company’s operating divisions by revenue and assets. The breakdown is offered in a table and a donut chart and compares each segment by revenue, profit and assets.

Use the interactive chart in this section to analyse a company’s industry performance by operating segment, both in percentage change and value. The chart allows you to select the segments you want to consider when conducting your analysis.

For example, Woolworths Group Limited’s Big W segment operates in several industries, including department stores, hardware and building supplies and footwear retailing. The table provides insight into the historical and forecast growth rates of the company’s industries of operation over the previous and next five-year periods. Each industry is linked to its respective entry in IBISWorld’s Industry Report collection.

Discover details about a company’s operations by its geographic location and view the revenue, profit and assets attributable to that region. This information is provided in a table chart and as a donut chart. The table breaks down an enterprise’s geographic locations by profit as a percentage of revenue and profit as a percentage of assets.

This table breaks down each operating division by its profit as a percentage of revenue and its profit as a percentage of assets.

Use this section to visually compare a company’s performance across key financial ratios (asset turnover ratio, EBITDA, current ratio, return on shareholders’ funds) with the industry average. This information is followed by a table that covers the remaining financial ratios IBISWorld reports on, comparing the industry average to the company’s last financial year for each. This table then offers a quick indication of whether the company is underperforming or outperforming the industry on each financial ratio and the positive or negative implications of its performance.

This section visually compares a company’s performance across key growth ratios (asset growth, revenue, employee growth, NPAT growth) with the industry average. This information is followed by a table that covers the remaining growth ratios IBISWorld reports on, comparing the industry average to the company’s last financial year for each. This table then offers a quick indication of whether the company is underperforming or outperforming the industry on each growth ratio and the positive or negative implications of its performance.

This section visually compares a company’s performance across key valuation ratios (Price-to-Earnings, Price-to-Book, Enterprise Value/EBITDA, Enterprise Value/Sales) with the industry average. This information is followed by a table that indicates whether the company is underperforming or outperforming the industry on each valuation ratio and the positive or negative implications of its performance.

The Industries of Operation chapter builds on the information presented in the Company Details overview at the start of each company’s Enterprise Profile. It revisits the company’s market share breakdown by industry before analysing how it performs in each of its industries.

If the company is a major player in an industry, its profile will provide a bar graph breakdown of its market share in that industry compared with that of its peers within IBISWorld's Industry Report collection (if applicable). For industries where the company is not a major player, the profile will provide a snapshot of key information from that industry (industry size, number of enterprises, industry concentration and turnover growth rate). Each of these sections links to the corresponding IBISWorld Industry Report for your convenience.

The Shareholders chapter provides a company’s substantial and largest shareholders, if applicable. This information is presented as a table that includes the shareholder’s name, its hold percentage and the country it’s located in. Use this section to better understand a company’s ownership structure.

Here you’ll find a list of a company’s subsidiaries, which can include associated companies, holding companies, joint ventures and trusts. This information is presented in a table listing each subsidiary’s name, the company’s holding percentage and the country of incorporation. Use this section to determine if a company is multinational and operates in other countries or regions.

The History chapter offers a chronological account of a company's activities of interest, providing you with the background behind its current position. This section lists important company events, such as the year it was established, any M&A activity and the introduction of any new business segments, products or services.

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