Assignment- Part A
Prepared by: Harsimran Kaur Rattan
1.0 Introduction
The report highlights the operations of Rio Tinto- one of the biggest mining corporations in the world. The purpose of this report is to compare the performance and share prices of the overall stock market index S&P/ASX200 and Rio Tinto during 1 January 2013- 1 January 2017. The report also illustrates the weekly returns of S&P/ASX200 and RIO TINTO to measure the percentage change in share prices from one week to the next during the same 4year period.
Another aspect that the article focuses on is the key events and trends in the global financial markets affecting the overall Australian market and Rio
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The company has a manpower of about 50,000 spread throughout 35 countries, and believes in working in partnership and think beyond the business to achieve its goals. The company participates in global initiatives like Extractive industries transparency initiative. “Rio Tinto” (2017).
3.2 Market performance of Rio Tinto shares relative to the overall market index from 2013 – 2016
Following are the key points that can be noticed: -
2013 showed ups and downs in the share prices of the company and the overall market. During 2013, the share price of RIO TINTO went down to $42per share in July from $52 per share in February. Whereas the share price of the overall market started at $23 per share in January 2013, recovered in May, and then went back to $23 in July.
In April 2015, the share price of S&P ASX/200 was maximum at $64 per share. However, both the share prices later declined until the start of 2016. The minimum share price for RIO was $35.
2016 was a period of recovery. The RIO share price recovered drastically from January 2016 to October 2016. The maximum share price for RIO went up to $61. For S&P ASX/200, the price ended up at $55 per share.
The comparison can be used for determining investor uncertainty. It allows us to compare the size of the variation of the returns.
Rio Tinto has larger upswings and downswings than a diversified portfolio of shares in the stock market index. During the period 2013-14, there was less
If the company did go public, its share price should be $384.37 for per share with the rapid growth scenario.
“The Benefits of diversification are clear. Portfolio theory has played a crucial role in explaining the relationship between risk and return where more than one investment is held. It also enables us to identify optimal and efficient portfolios.”
The three-year SAIC stock price data and its corresponding SSE index are obtained from finance.yahoo.com, as it provides dividend-adjusted closing prices. The two data are ordered in time in Excel (Sort Ascending). It is found that 46 SAIC daily stock prices are missing due to suspension of trading, therefore; 46 corresponding SSE daily index are removed in order to match up dates on the two data series.
The current enterprise value is $41,335 million and the equity value is $34,455 million. According to yahoo finance, the shares outstanding of our company are 647.31 million, so we can calculate the stock price for next year is $53.23. It will increase in following years.
Stock prices were the highest in Year 15 at $142 per share and ending at $48 a share at the end of Year 18. Stock prices met or exceeded Investor Expectation every year.
The Earnings Per share in 2012 and 2013 were $2.90. This is an indicator that the company is still profitable since the ratio is a constant. The price per earnings in 2012 was 12.5 and 17.7 in 2013. A decrease in the price per share may indicate a vote of no confidence to investors. However, this can be attributed to the industry sector as well the stock.
There are many other factors that will have a say in a firms share price. All of which can have an effect on a share price if there is a slight change in their figures or prospects.
This report had been prepared requested by the Board. The content of this report concentrated on evaluating the performance of Iron Ore Mining and providing a recommendation of any potential financial justified growth strategies for the next strategic planning horizon (3 years).
The highest value per stock under my ownership is $64.74 per a share on January 17th, 2014. The lowest value per a stock is $30.30 as of May 24th, 2014.
Range of values per share is from $67 to $83 per share. This is in range of Greenhill's own calculations.
Due to the consequences of the recent financial crisis, the company has observed a significant decline in the investment activities of its clients all over the world. These consequences brought negative impacts to its financial performance.
As indicated by the case study S&P 500 index was use as a measure of the total return for the stock market. Our standard deviation of the total return was used as a one measure of the risk of an individual stock. Also betas for individual stocks are determined by simple linear regression. The variables were: total return for the stock as the dependent variable and independent variable is the total return for the stock. Since the descriptive statistics were a lot, only the necessary data was selected (below table.)
The author has experience in dealing with financial data during his day to day job. Therefore he is comfortable with extracting relevant figures and come to a conclusion on his
Rio Tinto is a multinational company that deals with mineral and metal mining, refining, processing, and marketing. Founded in 1873, this Australian-British company has grown into one of world’s leading mining and Metals Company, dealing in aluminium, copper, diamonds, coal, and iron ore. Refining of bauxite and iron ore are also part of its operations. The transformed metals and minerals give Rio Tinto access to markets across a diverse economic development spectrum, and exposure in varied sectors, including
5. The intrinsic stock price of Antarctica and Brahma, by using ECF method, are R$132.99 and R$879.54 respectively. They are higher than the ones in Q3 and Q4.