Synopsis
This report contains a competitive company benchmarking analysis based on key financial and operating parameters and ratios of a select peer group of companies, compared to one another and to overall global averages for their retail channel. The analysis highlights the companies that are performing the best among the peer group, and in which areas, and therefore clarifies leading performance standards and the strengths and weaknesses of companies covered.
Summary
Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers Company Benchmarking Analysis Report compares the strength of the leading drug, health and beauty retailers in North America relative to each other and international averages for retailers in the drug, health and beauty retailers channel.
The benchmark analysis is based on key parameters and ratios that explain the performance of a particular company against that of its immediate peers and its overall channel of operation. As such, it provides an easy-to-use analysis which highlights the companies that are setting the benchmark performance in their channel of operation.
Scope
The report provides a peer group benchmarking analysis of leading drug, health and beauty retailers in North America. The peer group is selected from our Retailer Company Benchmark Database which covers the leading 1,000 global retailers. The peer group covered includes leading drug, health and beauty retailers in North America.
The retailers covered in the report are:
CVS Caremark Corporation
Walgreen Co.
Rite Aid Corporation
Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc.
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.
Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.
Reasons To Buy
Understand the relative competitive strengths and weaknesses of the players covered, both compared to each other, as well as for the average performance of retailers in this channel around the world.
Detailed scorecards and summary "heat charts" provide clear, concise "at a glance" analysis of the relative performance of the companies covered across a range of metrics. While more detailed data provides the granular detail behind these concise analyses.
Gain a detailed knowledge of the best in class performance levels amongst the retailers covered in order to benchmark both competitor performance as well as that of your own company.
Key Highlights
Walgreen was the strongest performer of the leading drug, health and beauty retailers in North America. The companys strong performance was driven by the high scores it received for Scale and growth pillar.
CVS Caremark was the top performer under the operational efficiency pillar. It also performed well under the scale and growth pillar.
Ulta was the best performer under the financial performance pillar. It also performed well under operational efficiency pillar.
Among the peer group companies, Rite Aid was the weakest performer of the leading drug, health and beauty retailers in North America. The companys poor performance was driven by the weak scores it received under operational efficiency and financial performance pillars.
The North American drug, health and beauty retail market is moderately concentrated and is dominated by retailers based in the US. Within the channel, the three largest retail chains are CVS Caremark, Walgreen and Rite Aid.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 What is this Report About?
1.2 Peer Group
1.3 Retail Channel Definitions
1.4 Financial and Operational Metric Definitions
1.5 Summary Methodology
1.5.1 Overall research methodology
1.5.2 Scorecard and heat chart methodology
2 Peer Group Summary Analysis
2.1 Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers Heat Chart
2.2 Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers Insights from Competitive Benchmarking Analysis
2.2.1 Scale and growth competitive benchmarks
2.2.2 Operational efficiency competitive benchmarks
2.2.3 Financial performance competitive benchmarks
2.3 Walgreen Co. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.4 CVS Caremark Corporation Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.5 Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.6 Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.7 Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.8 The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.9 Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
2.1 Rite Aid Corporation Company Benchmarking Scorecard
3 Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers Company Benchmarking
3.1 Scale and Growth Competitive Benchmarks
3.1.1 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by revenue, 20062010
3.1.2 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by revenue growth, 20072010
3.1.3 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by retail floor space, 20062010
3.1.4 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by retail floor space growth, 20072010
3.1.5 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by store count, 20062010
3.1.6 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by store count growth, 20072010
3.1.7 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by employee count, 20062010
3.1.8 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by employee count growth, 20072010
3.1.9 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by market capitalization, 20062010
3.2 Operational Efficiency Competitive Benchmarks
3.2.1 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by EBITDA margin, 20062010
3.2.2 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by net profit margin, 20062010
3.2.3 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by inventory turnover, 20062010
3.2.4 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by sales per square meter, 20062010
3.2.5 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by operating profit per square meter, 20062010
3.2.6 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by sales per employee, 20062010
3.2.7 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by operating profit per employee, 20062010
3.2.8 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by fixed asset turnover, 20062010
3.3 Financial Performance Competitive Benchmarks
3.3.1 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by ROCE, 20062010
3.3.2 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by return on assets, 20062010
3.3.3 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by earnings per share (basic), 20062010
3.3.4 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by P/E ratio, 20062010
3.3.5 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by quick ratio, 20062010
3.3.6 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by debt to equity, 20062010
3.3.7 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by debt ratio, 20062010
3.3.8 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by capital expenditure, 20062010
3.3.9 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by EV/sales, 20062010
3.3.10 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by EV/EBITDA, 20062010
3.3.11 Leading North American drug, health and beauty retailers by interest coverage, 20062010
4 Appendix
4.1 About Canadean
4.2 Disclaimer
List of Tables
Table 1: List of Leading Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers in North America, 2010
Table 2: Retail Channel Definitions
Table 3: Financial and Operational Metric Definitions
Table 4: List of Company Benchmarking Metrics by Pillar
Table 5: Sample Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 6: Walgreen Co. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 7: CVS Caremark Corporation Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 8: Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 9: Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 10: Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 11: The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 12: Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 13: Rite Aid Corporation Company Benchmarking Scorecard
Table 14: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Revenue (US$ Million), 20062010
Table 15: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Revenue Growth (%), 20072010
Table 16: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Retail Floor Space (Thousand Square Meters), 20062010
Table 17: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Retail Floor Space Growth (%), 20072010
Table 18: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Store Count, 20062010
Table 19: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Store Count Growth (%), 20072010
Table 20: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Employee Count, 20062010
Table 21: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Employee Count Growth (%), 20072010
Table 22: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Market Capitalization (US$ Million), 20062010
Table 23: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by EBITDA Margin (%), 20062010
Table 24: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Net Profit Margin (%), 20062010
Table 25: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Inventory Turnover, 20062010
Table 26: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Sales per Square Meter (US$), 20062010
Table 27: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Operating Profit per Square Meter (US$), 20062010
Table 28: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Sales per Employee (US$), 20062010
Table 29: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Operating Profit per Employee (US$), 20062010
Table 30: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Fixed Asset Turnover, 20062010
Table 31: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by ROCE (%), 20062010
Table 32: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Return on Assets (%), 20062010
Table 33: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Earnings per Share (Basic) (US$), 20062010
Table 34: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by P/E Ratio, 20062010
Table 35: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Quick Ratio, 20062010
Table 36: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Debt to Equity, 20062010
Table 37: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Debt Ratio, 20062010
Table 38: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Capital Expenditure (US$ Million), 20062010
Table 39: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by EV/Sales, 20062010
Table 40: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by EV/EBITDA, 20062010
Table 41: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Interest Coverage, 20062010
List of Figures
Figure 1: Sample Heat Chart
Figure 2: Leading North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers Heat Chart
Figure 3: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Revenue (US$ Million), 20062010
Figure 4: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Revenue Growth (%), 20072010
Figure 5: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Retail Floor Space (Thousand Square Meters), 20062010
Figure 6: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Retail Floor Space Growth (%), 20072010
Figure 7: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Store Count, 20062010
Figure 8: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Store Count Growth (%), 20072010
Figure 9: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Employee Count, 20062010
Figure 10: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Employee Count Growth (%), 20072010
Figure 11: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Market Capitalization (US$ Million), 20062010
Figure 12: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by EBITDA Margin (%), 20062010
Figure 13: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Net Profit Margin (%), 20062010
Figure 14: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Inventory Turnover, 20062010
Figure 15: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Sales per Square Meter (US$), 20062010
Figure 16: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Operating Profit per Square Meter(US$), 20062010
Figure 17: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Sales per Employee (US$), 20062010
Figure 18: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Operating Profit per Employee (US$), 20062010
Figure 19: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Fixed Asset Turnover, 20062010
Figure 20: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by ROCE (%), 20062010
Figure 21: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Return on Assets (%), 20062010
Figure 22: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Earnings per Share (basic) (US$), 20062010
Figure 23: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by P/E Ratio, 20062010
Figure 24: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Quick Ratio, 20062010
Figure 25: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Debt to Equity, 20062010
Figure 26: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Debt Ratio, 20062010
Figure 27: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Capital Expenditure (US$ Million), 20062010
Figure 28: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by EV/Sales, 20062010
Figure 29: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by EV/EBITDA, 20062010
Figure 30: Top Five North American Drug, Health and Beauty Retailers by Interest Coverage, 20062010