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Introduction
- Tesco - the largest company in the sector
- Morrisons - the smallest
*Standard of financial reporting
*Financial strengths and weaknesses
*Market perception and share price movement
- Focus on three distinct areas:
- Some issues are related only to particular parts
Financial Strengths and Weaknesses
Financial Reports analysis
Share price movement and market perception
- Profitability
- Efficiency
- Gearing
- Capital Market Analysis
- Reports are similar but not the same
- Both companies include 5 different reports
- Morrisons' report is more descriptive
- Tesco’s more on-point
- Both faced problems in business operation
- Morrisons did not catch up with the market
- Tesco’s accounting scandal
- Downward trend in share price
- Tesco had more stable share price than Morrisons
- Different solutions
- Corporate Responsibility Committee
- CSR
- Corporate Governance Report
Profitability
- Both made losses
- Tesco was worse at creating profits
- Companies did not fully utilise their assets
- Issue of profit margin
Efficiency
- Both improved efficiency
- Morrisons was better in stock control
- Tesco has lower assets turnover
- Morrisons has shorter receivable periods
- Tesco showed more long-term approach
Gearing
- Both were in worse financial situation
- Lower ability to pay for the interests
- Tesco's Debt to Equity issues
- Morrisons sudden decline in Interest Coverage ratio
Capital Market Analysis
- Company loss led to share price drop
- Negative P/E ratio
- Investors lost money
- Tesco cut dividends
- Morrisons increased them
To sum up...
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Group 17
Alla Jevtjukova 14012370
Kristiina Adekunle 14016860
Chunxiao Liu 15016561
Vasiliki Savvopoulou 14010952
Jakub Kruszynski 14017029
Xinyi Le 15016460