You are to select a public listed dividend paying company from Singapore Exchange
and conduct a detailed analysis on it.
investigate the financial strength of a public listed company. Your research should cover the areas of:
• shareholder analysis;
• risk-return analysis;
• cost of capital; and
• financial statement analysis
In each of the areas, you are to report your findings using the questions provided below as a guide. If the information is not from the company’s annual report, you will have to provide details on
- where you sourced the information; and
- comment on how you have verified its reliability.
The report must be written completely by you and your group members. You are not to purchase or reproduce commercial stock reports.
3.31 Shareholder analysis guide
• Choose a Singaporean company listed on the stock exchange
• Download the annual report from the company’s website. Please use the latest available annual report. If the latest annual report is not available for the company, please select another
company. Figures from last year’s annual report will not be accepted
• Read the summary of the business
o What type of investor would invest in this company? Describe what type of returns they are looking for; capital growth or dividends?
• Read the chairman’s/director’s message to the shareholders
o To whom is the message directed towards; institutional investors or “mom and dad” investors?