* Walt Disney Company had $88B in revenue in FY23, with trailing-twelve-month revenue above $89B into FY24.
** American Express had $60B in revnue in FY23, with trailing-twelve-month revenue above $63B into FY24.
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* US Textile demand is expected to grow by an average of 3.1% each year, while American produced Nylon (used in Allegiance flags) is expected to grow a little faster at 3.5% per year over the next five years.
** Last year the US produced $65.8B in textiles, and exported $34.0B, the natural fiber category made up 38%.
* Quantinuum raised $625 million at a $5 Billion valuation in January of 2024.
** Mircosoft 2023 Service Revenue was $147 Billion, a 20% 5-year compound growth rate † These results signify an important transition from noisy intermediate scale quantum computing to reliable quantum computing. These results also demonstrate advanced capabilities toward large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing.
* Coach sales soared from $4.9B in 2020 to $6.6B in 2023, with earnings-per-share catapulting from ($2.34) to $3.96 in the same period.
* “Beam Suntory strives to build healthy, lasting relationships with all its business partners”, page 14 of the Beam Suntory Code of Conduct and Ethics.
** Beam Suntory’s year-over-year growth has increased 7% in 2023, 10.5% in 2022, and 11% in 2021.
* In 2023, Revenue was $82.5 Billion, up 11% from 2022, diluted Earnings-per-share was $4.83, up 48% from 2022, and Return on Equity (ROE) was 11%, up from 7.8% in 2022.
** Corporate and Investment Bank revenue grew 26% from 2022 expanding investment banking and trading market shares.
* In addition to free mental healthcare for employees and their family members, all Nike employees are also provided with free subscriptions to the Headspace meditation app.
** Nike revenues have been steadily increasing from $37.4B in 2020, to $44.5B in 2021, to $46.7B in 2022, and $51.2B in 2023.
* Walmart's revenue has been increasing from $559B in 2020, to $572B in 2021, to $611B in 2022. Trailing twelve month revenues for 2023 are $638B.
* AB InBev, the parent company of Budweiser, saw revenue increase from $46.8B in 2020, to $54.3B in 2021, to $57.7B in 2022. Trailing twelve month 2023 revenues are $59B.
** TKO, the parent company of UFC, saw revenues increase from $0.8B in 2020, to $1.0B in 2021, to $1.1B in 2022. Trailing twelve month 2023 revenues are $1.3B.
* In the last 40 years, approximately 1/3 of global farmland is no longer arable. Each year, a typical U.S. farm can lose 4 tons of topsoil per acre.
** Desertification of overused farmland will become a problem across America in the next decade. The tipping point to avoid a multi-generation catastrophe is if 10% of the United States’ 900 million acres of farmland regenefies. *** Regenefying farmland involves improving soil health and ecosystem resilience after harvests, so that farm land is not completely stripped of its nutrients over time. It can be as easy as planting a diversity of trees around the edges of farms. Regenefied farms reduce machine wear and tear, labor costs, and the amount of fertilizers needed for high yields. |
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