31/10/13 Student no-21185372 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Fundamental and Technical analysis 3. Efficient market
Statement Analysis Next Plc and Marks and Spencer Ratio Analysis Student ID Number: 1037898 (07 22681) Executive Summary Next Plc Next Plc established in 1981 is a multi-channel retailer, ranked number two in the UK clothing market. Their product ranges include clothing and home products in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Business Segments: 1. Next Retail – 540 stores in the UK. 2. Next Directory – The online and catalogue business, with approximately three million customers. 3. Next International
it NEXT in 1981. In 1864 before NEXT, Hepworth launched Joseph Hepworth & Son in Leeds which were tailors for menswear. By 1990s, NEXT had widened their clothing categories while undergoing massive global expansion with its outlets count with their brand trading in around 40 different countries. Today, NEXT stands among the top five largest clothing retailers by sales in the United Kingdom competing alongside Supergroup, Marks & Spencer, and others. Figure 2: Next showroom image from Next PLC
In February 1982, the NEXT, a British multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer, was launched by J Hepworth. It furniture through around 500 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It also franchises about 200 stores in 37 countries overseas. Next is the largest clothing retailer by sales in the United Kingdom, having overtaken Marks & Spencer in early 2012 and 2014. Its other group business includes NEXT Sourcing, which has operations in Asia and the UK engage in merchandising and
report of Artic PLC, a company which produce electronic components for electrical product manufactures. This financial report is carefully asses, summarizes and organize the present status of the company to give effective recommendations and good solution regarding the finances of the company. Initially, the company’s financial status is compared and contrasted each other with business sector and competitors, over a period of 4 years by five financial areas Ratio Analysis Ratio Analysis is the form
IPO purposes | Financial Analysis Assignment | | Student ID: 635281, 636484, 640073 | 11/28/2011 | | ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents I. Introduction 4 II. Primark’s business and financial situation 5 2.1. Primark’s business and financial analysis 5 2.1.1. Business analysis 5 2.1.2. Financial situation (trend analysis) 6 2.2. Industry sector 11 2.2.1. Overview 11 2.2.2. Cross-sectional analysis 12 2.2.3. Summary of
654-682) point out that financial researchers use financial ratios to examine the relation between financial data and common stock features. The analysis in this paper is focus on the usefulness of financial ratios, taking data from stock market to assist the judgment of whether ratios show the real variation of company business. Put it in detail, this paper adopts quantitative research method mainly; calculating the different ratios in different industry companies, and then comparing these data
in the financial performance of Next plc with the particular concern for dividends, earnings and share price. The main findings of this report are the following: • accounting policies adopted by Next plc correspond to the required standards and, in our views, prove to be relevant, reliable, understandable and consistent. • Analysis of investment ratios, gearing ratio and profitability ratios was done and, in our view, being a highly financed business Next plc managed to deliver quite decent
Information from Different Sources 5 2.4 Tools and Techniques used for Business/Financial Analysis 5 3 Business Analysis 7 3.1 Porter Five Forces Analysis 7 3.2 SWOT Analysis 8 4 Financial Analysis 10 Ratio Analysis 10 4.1 Turnover Growth 10 4.2 Profitability Ratio 11 4.3 Working Capital Ratios 13 3.4
)Return On Capital Employed (ROCE) 3.Liquidity ratio compare with Ted Baker a.)Current ratio b.)Liquid capital ratio c.)Rate of inventory turnover d.)Trade receivables days e.)Trade payable days f.)Gearing ratio 4. Evaluation 5.Conclusion 6.References 7.Appendix Introduction This report is going to compare the performance between Burberry PLC and Ted Baker PLC. Also the purpose of this project is to using three ratios which are profitability