3. Company Overview
Industry &
Competitors
Valuation
Financial
Analysis
ConclusionRisk Analysis
Industry Overview
❏ Supplier Power - Low
❏ Rivalry among Competitors - High
❏ Threat of Substitutes - High
❏ Buyer Power - Low
❏ Threat of New Entrants - Moderate
Legend
0: No threat to Signet
1: Insignificant threat to Signet
2: Low threat to Signet
3: Moderate threat to Signet
4: Significant threat to Signet
5: High threat to Signet
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4. Company Overview
Industry &
Competitors
Valuation
Financial
Analysis
ConclusionRisk Analysis
Competitive Analysis
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; Team Estimates
Company
Gross
Margin
Operating
Margin
Net Profit
Margin
Signet 36.16% 10.05% 6.65%
Tiffany 59.70% 20.98% 11.39%
Blue Nile 18.30% 3.00% 2.06%
L-Brands 41.98% 17.05% 9.10%
Coach 69.39% 14.74% 9.60%
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31. Conclusion
Porter’s Five Forces Model Appendix
Legend
0: No threat to Signet
1: Insignificant threat to Signet
2: Low threat to Signet
3: Moderate threat to Signet
4: Significant threat to Signet
5: High threat to Signet
❏ Supplier Power - Low
❏ Rivalry among Competitors - High
❏ Threat of Substitutes - High
❏ Buyer Power - Low
❏ Threat of New Entrants - Moderate
40. RJC Members Appendix
(RJC) Founders
❏ ABN AMRO,
❏ BHP Billiton Diamonds
❏ Cartier
❏ World Jewellery Confederation
❏ Diamond Trading Company
❏ Diarough, Jewelers of America
❏ Zale Corporation
❏ National Association of
Goldsmiths (UK)
❏ Newmont Mining
❏ Rio Tinto
❏ Rosy Blue
❏ Signet Group
❏ Tiffany & Co.
41. Board of Directors Appendix
❏ Mark Light, CEO - Appointed to Board of Directors October 2014. Mr.
Light started as a sales associate for Signet Sterling division in 1978.
❏ Todd Stitzer, Chairman - Director of Massachusetts Life Insurance.
❏ Virginia C. Drosos - President, CEO and Director of Assurex Health.
❏ Dale Hilpert - Past CEO of Williams-Sonoma
❏ Helen E. McClusky- Director of Avon.
❏ Marianne Miller Parrs - Director of Stanley Black & Decker Inc.
❏ Thomas G. Plaskett - Chairman of Fox Run Capital Associates.
❏ Robert J. Stack - Director of IMI plc.
❏ Eugenia M Ulasewicz - Director of Bunzl plc and Vince Holding
corporation. Past president of Burberry Group plc's American division.
❏ Russel Walls - Director of Biocon Limited, Mytrah Energy Limited,
Aviva Italian Holding S.p.A. Chairman of Aviva Life & Pensions UK
Limited.
44. Weighted Average Cost of Capital
Appendix
(1)Risk Free Rate: 10-Year Treasury Bond (as of 02/05/2016)
(2)Daily Regression over 3 Year Period
(1)
(2)
45. Risk Matrix
Appendix
❏ Discretionary Income (R1)
❏ Product Price Sensitivity (R2)
❏ Customer Financing (R3)
❏ Fluctuations in Diamond
Pricing (R4)
❏ Seasonality (R5)
❏ Inability to Train and Maintain
Competent Employees (R6)