No, I will not buy Ford’s stock. Although the development of this cost-efficient engine may initially bring up Ford’s stock price, such increase in stock price may not be sustainable due to the following reasons. The technology that greatly reduces the consumption of fuel will likely reduce the price of oil stocks. Because of the increasing demand for fuel economy, more and more individuals will invest in fuel efficient and environmentally friendly automobiles, the demand for crude oil will decrease and prices of oil will drop. According to the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), as fuel prices dropped, so did the fuel economy of the fuel-efficient vehicles. Moreover, the lowered price of gasoline led to …show more content…
The higher the return, the more profitable the bank is, in the sense that it utilizes assets to make profits more efficiently. Return on assets can be calculated by dividing net profit after taxes by total assets. Return on equity, on the other hand, measures profitability by looking at how a bank generates profit with the equities invested by the shareholders. It can be derived by taking the ratio of net profit after taxes and equity capital. The relationship between ROA and ROE is that ROE is equal to ROA times the equity multiplier (EM). The equity multiplier is the value of assets divided by equity capital, and it expresses how much assets there are for every dollar of equity capital. If ROA and the amount of assets are held constant, the lower equity capital is, the higher the return for the owners of the bank. For example, if a bank doubles the amount of its capital and ROA stays constant, ROE will fall to half of its original value. This relationship gives bank managers the incentive to hold less bank capital relative to assets, and to have a larger equity multiplier. When the bank is not making a considerable profit, ROE can still increase if equity capital is reduced. This is not the desired outcome of the regulators, because in most cases, the regulatory authorities ask banks to satisfy certain capital requirements. When banks have the incentive to cut off capital, they have a smaller bank capital to assets ratio than is required by the regulators. This
Return on equity tells you how effectively a company is using the dollars invested in it by stockholders. ROE is the most often quoted single statistic when describing a firm 's performance. It is also one of the statistics considered to be most useful by stockholders.
* Return on assets (ROA) – ROA shows how successful a company is in generating profits on the amount of assets they own. Since assets consist of debt and equity, ROA is a measure of how well a company converts investment dollars into profit. The higher the percentage, the more profit a company is generating per dollar of investment. Similar to ROS, this ratio needs to be looked at compared to the industry as different industries have different requirements that can affect ROA. For example, companies in the airline and mining industries need expensive assets to operate so will have lower ROA’s compared to companies in the pharmaceutical or advertising industries.
First of all, return on asset (ROA) is a ratio used to measure how efficient a company generates profit using its assets, which is the invested capital. We noticed that HH’s ROA was increasing from 2006 to 2010. However, HH’s ROA for 2011 dropped dramatically from 18.41%(year
I. Rate of Return on Total Assets: Measures the company’s profitability relative to total assets. A percentage increment for Company G, from 12.30% to 13.68% (2011-12) keeps them above industry benchmarks (8.60% and 12.30%). Rate of Return on Total Assets represents strength for Company G.
The following report is a brief comparative analysis of two of Australia’s largest deposit-taking financial institutions (FI), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) and Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac). This report seeks to identify which of the FIs has a greater aggregate return per dollar of equity and thus establish the highest performer, or most profitable, of the two. The Return on Equity Model (ROE) (Koch & MacDonald,
Since an ROE of 21.48% equals the product of 4.41% and 4.87 (ROA and Equity Multiplier), it indicates that the firm is able to achieve such high ROE only through a high financial leverage.
The Return on Assets ratio is a basic measure of the efficiency with which TCI allocates and manages its resources (assets) to generate earnings. With a 20% projected increase in sales, for 1996, we calculated TCI’s ROA to be 12.95%, and 12.11% for 1997. Although this isn’t an extremely high ROA, TCI will be allocating its resources very wisely with the expansion of its central warehouse. If MidBank lends them the cash they need to complete this project, their central warehouse will be able to hold more tires for their increasing sales, which will then convert into profit. A true test of TCI’s ROA will be after 1998, when the warehouse is complete, so you can see just how well they can convert an investment into profit.
Rate of Return on equity measures a corporation 's profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested. It indicates how efficiently the business uses its investment funds. For Tesco, Rate of Return on Shareholders’ Fund has increased from 13.85% in 2004 to 14.91% in 2009. This shows an improvement of 1.06% in five years period. When one examines the Sainsbury’s Rate of Return on Shareholders’ Fund, there is an increase from 7.76% to 8.36%. There is a 0.6% growth in the Rate of Return on Shareholders’ Fund. In comparison with Tesco, Sainsbury’s Rate of Return on Shareholders’ Fund is lower. Shareholders earned 13.85% from their investment (measured in book value
If the economy recovers in 2010, Ford will be in a good competitive position. To meet stricter government fuel-economy standards, it is introducing a line of more efficient cars such as the Ford Fusion, Focus, and Fiesta. It will start manufacturing electric cars in 2010. Mulally hopes that Ford will be able to take business from GM and Chrysler/Fiat. Goldman Sachs' Patrick Archambault sees Ford picking up 25 percent of the sales the two competitors have lost, the equivalent of 1.4 points of market share.
These profitability ratios indicate a better result by taking up the new loan than staying with the old bank. By Dupont analysis (Please see exhibit___), the main drivers for the higher ROE for new loan is due to higher profit margin which offset the lower equity multiplier. The effect of the discount income has driven the profitability, which in turn reflected also in the ROE and ROA ratios.
This tells us what the company can do with what it has, i.e. how many dollars of earnings they derive from each dollar of assets they control. Return on assets gives an indication of the capital intensity of the company, which will depend on the industry; As Star River requires large initial investments it generally has lower return on assets.
Normally, each bank tries to attract competitors clients by lower financing, preferred rate and investment services. This market is in the stage who could offer the best product with fastest service at reasonable price however this also causes bank to experience lower margin or return on asset (ROA).
From 2002 to 2007 the bank had an 83% annual growth rate, but those increased profits did not come from productive assets, but simply just a result of increased leverage as seen when comparing Deutsche Bank’s ROA v. ROE. The bank consistently had an exponentially high ROE when the economy was doing well and led to a significant loss when the economy was in a recession in 2008. ROA stayed below .5% and above -.18% during those 10 years even when ROE reached a high of 26.72% and a low of -12.91%. ROA did not rise the way ROE did because increased debt has the potential to lower revenues as more money is spent servicing that enormous debt and if net income falls due to increased expense ROA declines but ROE can still rise as it does not effect shareholder equity. The leverage did allow for large financial gains but did cause
The return on equity conveys the profits of the company as a rate of return on the amount of owners' equity. ROE uses average owners equity over the specified time period and net income. Historically a ROE of between 10% and 15% were considered average. Recently higher rates in growth industries have been greater.
3. Assume that cost of goods sold for a company consists only of variable costs and gross margin is = (revenue – cost of goods sold)/revenue. Which of the following is true