Fundamental and Technical Analysis

Running head: FUNDAMENTAL AND TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
FUNDAMENTAL AND TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Genting Plantations Berhad....................................................................................................2
Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad..............................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Fundamental Analysis............................................................................................................3
Technical Analysis.................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The report titled “Fundamental and Technical Analysis” is prepared to analyse the
two listed companies of Malaysia both in terms of fundamental and technical. The selected
company for this report are Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad and Genting Plantations Berhad.
The both company are listed in the Bursa Malaysia that is Malaysian stock exchange for more
than 3 years. The both selected company are from the same industry called plantations. The
following is the brief about both the companies.
Genting Plantations Berhad
The Genting Plantations Berhad was founded in 1977 as a private limited company.
This started it operation in 1980 under the Genting Group. This one of the leading palm oil
plantation group of region. The company increased its land bank from 13,700 hectares to
247,400 hectares and currently operates in Malaysia and Indonesia (Gentingplantations
2019). The head office of the company is situated in the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad
Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad is also a conglomerate in the palm oil and
plantations industry. The company have the balance of 270,000 hectares in their land bank.
Apart from the palm oil, the company also manufacture some other product as well as
involved in the property business (Klk.com.my 2019). The company performing its oil
business more than 100 years having the head office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Discussion
Fundamental Analysis
Fundamental analysis is type of stock evaluation method. This method considers and
analyse the financial information of the company such as financial report, demand of the
product produces by the company, company’s position in the industry and the changes occurs
in the economics and government policies. The fundamental analysis deals with the financial
performance of the company (Yan and Zheng 2017). To perform the fundamental analysis of
any company requires the detailed study of the financial report of the company to certain the
some key terms like profitability, return on investment and turnover of the firm.
Here, to perform the fundamental analysis of Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad and
Genting Plantations Berhad this report use the following tools of the fundamental analysis:
Earnings per share (EPS)
The earning per share are very important tool of the fundamental analysis and its
primary focus on the investors of the company. This shows the earning capacity of the
company in per share basis.
2016 2017 2018
Earing per share
0.0
20.0
40.0
60.0
80.0
100.0
120.0
140.0
160.0
Earning per Share
Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad Genting Plantations Berhad
The high earning per ratio is consider as good. From the above it can be said the
Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad is paying high dividend than the Genting Plantations Berhad.