Stock_Analysis_of_Wal-Mart_and_Johnson_&_Johnson

Wal-Mart Full Company Profile Johnson & Johnson has around 115,500 employees worldwide helping in the research and sale of many products in the health care field. The company has businesses all over the world. The Consumer segment of the business includes many products used in baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care, women’s health care, and nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. These are all sold to the general public. The Pharmaceutical segment has products in therapeutic areas such as anti-infective, antipsychotic, cardiovascular, contraceptive, dermatology, and immunology. These products are sold to retailers and healthcare professionals for prescription use all over the world. The Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment has many products used in the professional fields by physicians, therapists, hospitals, diagnostic labs, and clinics. For example, there are spinal care and sports medicine products, aesthetics and women’s health products, and invasive surgical products. Also, around 25% of these sales go into research and development. During 2009, Johnson & Johnson delivered a total shareholder return of 11.3 percent. They are also planning to help impoverished countries improve their healthcare. Johnson & Johnson is sending experienced healthcare professionals over to countries such as Russia to help train them on better and more efficient ways of performing surgeries such as removing cysts. Therefore Johnson & Johnson is hoping to improve conditions all over the world. They also do extensive research on women’s health issues, and have recently even had breakthroughs in making breast reconstruction much easier. Also, they help fund Biosense Webster, Inc. and The Cellsearch System helping to fund more research in the cause of strokes and how to treat them as well as finding cures for cancer. Also, new product lines and new markets for existing products continue to provide growth opportunities for the company. The report is well written and precise. There are many facts scattered throughout the articles. It was actually very appealing to me. There were many pictures and articles on their future plans. They are currently funding many research organizations on topics such as women’s health, cancer, and heart disease. Their interest in their customers and their well-being seems apparent within this 2009 annual report. Although, some pictures seem to be modeled while others seem to be live. However, every picture relates to the topic of the section or article and all of them give good visuals to it. Product plans are very clear as well as their goals for the future. However, their competition is only vaguely mentioned around once or twice. The report could be made more appealing by creating better titles. It was hard to find exactly what I was looking for. Everything was jumbled into pages of writing and the titles were vague and did not help at all. I think Johnson & Johnson compares well against others in it’s industry. It has many products that I am very familiar with and they fund countless organizations for the better of their customers and community.