Financial Analysis of AMP: Capital Structure, Key Ratios and Risk Management
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This report analyses the financials of AMP, including capital structure, weighted average cost of capital, return on equity, comparison with competitors, key ratios, and risk management strategies.
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ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE Executive Summary The report has been prepared to analyse the financial of AMP, an entity listed on Australian Stock Exchange. The analysis includes the following subject matter: (a)Capital Structure of AMP for December ended 2017 accounts; (b)Computation of Weighted Average Cost of Capital of the company; (c)Computation the rate of return on equity; (d)Comparison of capital structure of the company with the competitor; (e)Analysis of Key ratios of AMP and (f)Analysis of the change in Capital structure of the company over three year; (g)Identification of material weakness and how company has managed the same to generate wealth.
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Introduction AMP is engaged in Wealth Management Business and is listed on Australian Stock Exchange too. Further, the segment of the business includes financial advisory, platform administration, and superannuation especially unit-linked, managing of investment products, retirement planning and related products. The company is also engaged in investment management business and risk insurance. The company has a diversified portfolio and marks its presence on two stock exchanges namely Australian and New Zealand stock exchange.(Reuters, 2018) AMP current capital structure has been categorised into debt and equity by taking into fact that only interest bearing liabilities has been taken into consideration. The same has been detailed here-in-below: Capital Structure of AMP for 2017 $ Mio Sl NoParticularAmountAmount 1Contributed Equity7283 2Debt -Current13355 - Non-Current765421009 ( ASX Limited, 2018)(AMP Limited (AMP.AX), 2018) On basis of the same, it can be understood that company is heavily debt ridden with debt ranging to near about three times to equity and is substantially huge. Further, the computation for firm’s weighted average cost of capital has been detailed here-in –below: Capital Structure of AMP for 2017 $ Mio Sl NoParticularAmountAmount 1Contributed Equity7283 2Debt -Current13355 - Non-Current765421009 3Finance Cost585 4Rate of interest on Debt (Overall)2.78% 5Subordinated Debt Interest Rate6.88% 6Beta1.47 7Market Rate of return8.54% 8Rate of interest on Government bond 10 year2.66% 9Required Rate of Return on Equity (Using CAPM)11.30%
Computation of Weighted Average Cost of Capital Sl NoParticularWeight (A)Rate (B)Net (A*B) 1Equity728311.30%823.2412 2Debt Post Tax210094.81%1011.058 282921834.299 3Rate6.48% On the basis of above, it can be understood that weighted average cost of capital of the company is 6.48% as the company is trading on equity due to heavy reliance on debt. The return of equity has been computed to understand whether sufficient return is generated for the shareholders of the company. The computation of the same has been detailed here-in- below: Computation of Return on Equity Sl. No.ParticularAmount 1Net Profit848 2Average Equity7332 3Rate of return11.57% Since the rate of return in terms of financial statement exceed the rate of return required under CAPM computed value. The shareholders of the company are being taken care of. Comparison of Capital Structure of the company with competitor The competitor that has been chosen for analysis is Vontobel Holding AG which is the registered private bank in Switzerland and holding company of the Vontobel Group. The capital structure of the company has been detailed here-in-below: Competitor Capital Structure- Vontobel Holding- 31-12-2017 CHF Mio Sl NoParticularCurrentNon CurrentTotal 1Equity1025.8 2Long Term Liability - Provisions2525 -Loans355355 Total1405.8 Since the company did not have any long term interest bearing loan another company has been analysed to draw conclusion regarding the capital structure as the comparison with aforesaid company shall not bear any result as AMP is debt ridden.
Competitor Capital Structure- ANZ- 31-12-2017 CHF Mio Sl NoParticularCurrentNon CurrentTotal 1Equity58959 2Long Term Liability - Debt17022594515264740 Total323699 The other company that has been taken for analysis is Australian and New Zealand banking group limited which is listed on Australian Stock Exchange. The company has similar debt structure to that of AMP and the debt to equity ratio of the company shall range in the ratio of 4:1. Thus. The structure of the company is in alignment with competitor. Capital Structure of AMP for past 3 years The capital structure of AMP for past three years have been presented here-in-below:
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Capital Structure of Past 3 years 201720162015 Sl NoParticular Curren t Non Current Tota l Curren t Non Current Tota l Curren t Non Current Tota l 1AMP Bank -Deposits962728 965 5861438 865 26499179 667 8 -Other33825437 881 931453516 666 131233801 692 4 2Corporate Entity Borrowings -6.875% GBP Subordinated Guaranteed Bonds696971718282 -AMP Subordinated324324322322321321 -Floating Rate Subordinated Unsecured Notes601601 -AMP Wholesale Capital Notes276276276276276276 -AMP Capital Notes-2015264264263263262262 -AMP Capital Notes-20172502500 - Syndicated Loan Facility497497500500 -Commercial Paper229229114114 -Other2812966271271 Borrowings within investment entities controlled by AMP's life statutory funds89508597982553535651472 203 7 3Contributed Equity7283 728 37541 754 18895 889 5
On perusal of the above table one can understand that deposit of the bank has increased over the years creating additional liability while the contributed equity of the company has fallen over the year on account of losses in 2015 and reduction in minority interest and other related events. Further, company has borrowed additional amount through notes this year and borrowing within investment entities have fallen drastically.
Analysis of Key Ratios for AMP The key ratios of AMP have been computed and also has been taken from Yahoo finance and there is discrepancy in the same on account of difference in time period. The computation has been made on the basis of balance sheet figures on 31-12-2017. The same has been tabulated here-in-below: Key ratios (Data- Yahoo Finance) Sl NoParticularBriefsComputed Figure 1Enterprise Value/ Revenue-4.861.77 2Enterprise Value/ EBITDA-50.614.47 3Profit Margin2.89%5% 4Operating margin (ttm)9.49%12% 5Return on Assets(ttm)0.73%0.59% 6Return on Equity(ttm)7.55%12.12% 7Revenue Per Share (ttm)6.226.29 On perusal of the above, it can be seen that company is not earning substantive profit with profit margin of 5% which is substantially low for survival of business. However, the same may be good compared to losses in the past year. Further, the return of equity is good as the company is trading on equity and revenue per share is greater than the share price which is good. Maximising Wealth for Shareholders The seven risk that have been identified by the management includes the following:- (a)Strategic Risk : This risk includes risk associated with decisions of strategic nature and timely changes in the company to respond to dynamic industry; (b)Credit Risk : This risk includes non-payment by counter party; (c)Market Risk : The change is economic conditions which may change the large position of the market; (d)Insurance Risk:the Risk includes change in behaviour of policy holder, development of morbidity rates; (e)Liquidity Risk: The risk of inability to meet debt requirement on account of liquidity crunch; (f)Concentration Risk: The risk is on account of credit concentration, market correlation, cross risk types etc; (g)Operational Risk: Risk of failure of internal system and process or from events external in nature. How company is managing the same
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The company has established effective risk management team as fundamental to long-term sustainability. Further, keeping in pace with changes in regulatory law to avoid any penalty and fine to avoid any insurance risk helps organisation to survive the risk. The company has established risk committee and three line defence mechanism to manage the aforesaid risk. Further Enterprise Risk Management is established to identity, assess, monitor and review the risk. Effectiveness of risk managing tool On perusal the financial statement of the company, it may be understood that the company is performing strategically better compared to previous year on account of earning on 29 Cents this year per share compared to loss of 11.7 cents per share previous year. Further, interest rate risk has been managed by the company by entering into floating to fixed interest rate. On perusal of the table presented in page 82 of Annual Report 2017 of the company it can be seen that company is able to control to market risk to certain extent as represented by the table. However, the sensitivity of currency risk is still substantial. On analysing the liquidity risk, it may be seen that for major chunk of capital structure the repayment exceeds 5 year. However, the next larger chunk falls in the range of 1 year or no term and the same exceeds the cash pool of the company and thus it can be seen that company is not effective in solving this risk. (Page 83 of Annual Report, 2017). For Credit risk, it may be seen that the loan and advance due but not impaired has decreased. However, the amount which has been due but not impaired for days greater than 91 days has increased by 25%. Thus, company has achieved fairly in this regard. The company is performing better compared to past years and since no sign of failure is detected in annual report and other websites, it may be concluded that company is able to control Operating risk and strategic risk; Concentration risk has been tried to be restricted by entering into credit default swap to hedge the risk and has been restricted to limits set in the AMP concentration & Credit default policy risk as stated in Page 84 of Annual report 2017. Conclusion The company has fared well compared to past year and is relying heavily on debt for its survival.
References: ASX Limited. (2018).AMP LIMITED. Retrieved September 26, 2018, from search.asx.com.au: https://search.asx.com.au/s/search.html?query=AMP&collection=asx-meta&profile=web AMP Limited (AMP.AX). (2018, September 25). Retrieved September 26, 2018, from au.finance.yahoo.com: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMP.AX?p=AMP.AX Reuters. (2018).AMP Ltd (AMP.AX). Retrieved September 26, 2018, from in.reuters.com: https://in.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/AMP.AX