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China Mobile (China Mobile) Total Assets : $277,109 Mil (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is China Mobile Total Assets?

China Mobile's Total Assets for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $277,109 Mil.

Warning Sign:

If a company builds assets at 8.4% a year, faster than its revenue growth rate of 5.9% over the past 5 years, it means that the company may be getting less efficient.

During the past 12 months, China Mobile's average Total Assets Growth Rate was -0.30% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 9.50% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 8.40% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 7.00% per year.

During the past 13 years, China Mobile's highest 3-Year average Total Assets Growth Rate was 59.40%. The lowest was 3.40%. And the median was 10.45%.

Total Assets is connected with ROA %. China Mobile's annualized ROA % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 5.91%. Total Assets is also linked to Revenue through Asset Turnover. China Mobile's Asset Turnover for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.13.


China Mobile Total Assets Historical Data

The historical data trend for China Mobile's Total Assets can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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China Mobile Total Assets Chart

China Mobile Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Total Assets
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 232,293.94 264,230.42 289,094.09 277,627.84 279,075.80

China Mobile Quarterly Data
Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Total Assets Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 284,078.57 278,101.49 267,087.24 279,075.80 277,109.07

China Mobile Total Assets Calculation

Total Assets are all the assets a company owns.

From the capital sources of the assets, some of the assets are funded through shareholder's paid in capital and retained earnings of the business. Others are funded through borrowed money.

China Mobile's Total Assets for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Total Assets=Total Equity (A: Dec. 2023 )+Total Liabilities (A: Dec. 2023 )
=188508.025+90567.771
=279,076

China Mobile's Total Assets for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Total Assets=Total Equity (Q: Mar. 2024 )+Total Liabilities (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=186326.46+90782.615
=277,109

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


China Mobile  (NYSE:CHL) Total Assets Explanation

Total Assets is connected with ROA %.

China Mobile's annualized ROA % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

ROA %=Net Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/( (Total Assets (Q: Dec. 2023 )+Total Assets (Q: Mar. 2024 ))/ count )
=16446.02/( (279075.796+277109.074)/ 2 )
=16446.02/278092.435
=5.91 %

Note: The Net Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2024) data.

In the article Joining The Dark Side: Pirates, Spies and Short Sellers, James Montier reported that In their US sample covering the period 1968-2003, Cooper et al find that firms with low asset growth outperformed firms with high asset growth by an astounding 20% p.a. equally weighted. Even when controlling for market, size and style, low asset growth firms outperformed high asset growth firms by 13% p.a. Therefore a company with fast asset growth may underperform.

Total Assets is linked to total revenue through Asset Turnover.

China Mobile's Asset Turnover for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

Asset Turnover
=Revenue (Q: Mar. 2024 )/( (Total Assets (Q: Dec. 2023 )+Total Assets (Q: Mar. 2024 ))/ count )
=36618.343/( (279075.796+277109.074)/ 2 )
=36618.343/278092.435
=0.13

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Therefore, if a company grows its Total Assets faster than its Revenue, the Asset Turnover will decline. This might be a warning sign for the business.

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China Mobile (China Mobile) Business Description

Address
99 Queen’s Road Central, 60th Floor, The Center, Hong Kong, HKG
China Mobile is not only the largest telecom operator in China by the number of mobile subscribers (990 million) but also the largest in the world. It has 60% of the total wireless market in China and 45% of the fixed-line broadband market. The firm is continuing to roll out its 5G network, having launched 5G service in late 2019. It is doing some 5G network sharing with China Broadnet at 700 MHz and also resells its 2G/4G/5G network through China Broadnet. Strong growth is being generated through internet data centers where it has the second-largest network in China and through Cloud Services. The company issued stock on the A-share market in 2022 and completed its first buyback of H-shares.

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