Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ:HBAN) recently acquired the Ohio-based FirstMerit Corp., further increasing Huntington’s market share across eight states in the Midwest: Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. It is now the 33rd largest bank holding company in the United States, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as of the […]
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What does Best Buy’s Form 10-K disclose about its receivables?
October 4, 2016 
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Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY), the consumer electronics company, has a fiscal year ending on the Saturday nearest the end of each January. Since Best Buy is publicly-held, it files a Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission each year. To follow are Best Buy’s condensed and adapted balance sheets for the most recent […]
Continue readingHow are General Motors’ financial statements affected by borrowers not making auto-loan payments?
February 10, 2015 0 Comments
Borrowers who took out new car loans during 2014 are missing payments at the highest level since the recession. Regulators and analysts are beginning to be concerned about the quality of car loans, worrying that borrowers have taken on more debt than they can handle. Overall auto-loan delinquencies are higher now than one year ago, […]
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