Treynor ratio

1. Introduction The case study “The Future of OY MOOMIN characters” describes the real situation of expanding international markets beyond the home using the mechanism of licensing. This entry strategy helps to operate at profit every year after being not profitable for more than ten years. The key reasons for such a success are two factors: 1) “a shift in emphasis from the characters to the original artwork and the universal values embedded in the stories”, 2) “improvements in the quality…

Introduction Founded in Malaysia, Scientex Berhad became Sendririan Berhad in 1965 in the scientific textile industry. Scientex's core business is divided into two strategic business units, manufacturing and real estate development. (Refer Figure 1) Scientex Berhad manufactures and supplies different catogories products such as industrial packaging, consumer packaging, automotive interior and green energy products. Its industrial packaging products include stretch film, PP strapping band, FIBC…

Following Laurie Company’s purchase of Western Company, 20 Western employees were laid off. The severance pay offered to the recently terminated were used to match the same offered to Laurie Company employees in the previous year. One of the recently terminated Western Company employees, Bill Smith, was offered 5 weeks of severance pay as compensation. He complained that his offer was not fair compared to what was offered to the Laurie Company employees. As a result, a statistician needed to…

2.3 Efficiency Efficiency ratio is commonly used to evaluate how well the company manages their asset and liabilities internally. This ratio goes hand in hand with profitability ratios as it helps to improve the company’s profitability in the business. The efficiency ratio of ENCORP Berhad will calculate by using Fixed Assets Turnover and Debtor’s Collection Period (Appendix ). Figure 2.3.1: Efficiency Analysis of ENCORP Berhad Based on the diagram above, the Fixed Assets gradually…

Market Capitalization: It is the number of outstanding share multiplied by the share price of one share. It is used by the investment community to understand the firms size viz Large –cap, small-cap or mid-cap. Larger the Market Capitalization lesser the risk associated with the stock. The market Cap of Etisalat is increasing trend YoY shows the increase in price per share and the high valuation the investment community places on Etisalat share price. Common Size Income Statement Analysis…

One of the biggest disagreement between the two companies was the equity value of Lombardi. According to Lombardi, their company was valued at $8M, Hagilent Technologies’ equity expert rated Lombardi as a sole entity around $1M - $1.7M. Even though Hagilent Technologies equity expert explained that valuing a band name was difficult, Hagilent Technologies was disappointed to learn that the value was lower than the price offer and lower than their expectations (Gouveia & Lee, 2016). This issue…

Financial Accounting may be defined as the science and art of recording and classifying business transactions and preparing summaries of the same transactions and preparing summaries of the same for determining profit or loss and the financial position of the concern. The object of is to find out the profitability and to provide information about the financial position of the concern. Its purpose is to provide information for others to the value of a company. It is concerned with record –…

Volkswagen and BMW increased in debt to equity ratio indicates that both company has been aggressive in financing their growth with debt, while BMW able to maintain a steady cash flow over the years, this is not the case for Volkswagen. Overall, Solvency and liquidity analysis are equally important in financial statement analysis. Volkswagen low debt to equity ratio combined with low financial leverage and its ability to meet long-term obligations indicates lower risk of insolvency. On the…

1.1 BARCO stands for Belgian American Radio CO-orporation.Barco is a display /monitors manufacturing company which is working in the field of digital cinema projection, video projectors, wall projectors, Image Processing, LED displays, video walls, flat panel displays, automatic luminaires, digital lighting, lighting controls, display controllers . Barco is the source of displays monitors and visualisation/projection products. Barco makes solutions for large screen visualisation/projection,…

Days in inventory = Inventory / (Cost of goods sold÷365 days) = $89,562 / ($466,562÷365 days) = $89,562 / 1,278.25 = 70.07 ≈ 70 days Days sales outstanding = Accounts receivable / (Annual credit sales÷365 days) = $56,753 / (727,679÷365 days) = $56,753 / 1,993.64 = 28.47 ≈ 28 days Days in payables = Accounts payable / (Cost of goods sold÷365 days) = $38,585 / ($466,562÷365 days) = $38,585 / 1,278.25 = 30.19 ≈ 30 days Cash conversion period = Days in inventory + Days sales…