Analysis of Metcash Limited on Australian Securities Exchange

Australian Securities
Exchange

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PROBLEM 1....................................................................................................................................3
Details of publicly traded company from Australian Securities Exchange................................3
PROBLEM 2....................................................................................................................................3
Finding beta of stock on basis of 5 years’ data...........................................................................3
PROBLEM 3....................................................................................................................................5
Calculating the beta for analysing the impact of COVID 19 over the chosen company............5
PROBLEM 4....................................................................................................................................7
Collecting 5- year data relating to the dividend and calculating the growth rate and return on
share investment..........................................................................................................................7
PROBLEM 5....................................................................................................................................8
Visualising the problem with help of graphs..............................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Analysis of the return of the company and the stock is very important. This is because of
the reason that in case proper return will not be earned by the company then it will be affecting
the working efficiency of the company. This calculating of the return is helpful in analyzing and
evaluating the performance of the company.
PROBLEM 1
Details of publicly traded company from Australian Securities Exchange
Company Name: Metcash Limited
Stock Ticker Symbol: ASX:MTS
Stock Information: Ordinary fully paid
Most recent price $4.31
Market capitalization $4.13B
Daily volume 4,879,905
Number of ordinary
securities published on ASX 965,541,602
Most recent dividend $0.105
Annual dividend yield 4.67%
P/E ratio 18.03
EPS 0.239
Company Description: Food and Staples Retailing
PROBLEM 2
Finding beta of stock on basis of 5 years’ data
Variables
Metacash (1/1/2017
- 31/3/2022)
ASX200 (1/1/2017 -
31/3/2022)
Return (most recent period) -0.22 1.26
Mean (average returns) 0.45 0.12
Variance 22.59 4.11
Standard Deviation 4.762006 2.032181
*Slope (Beta) 0.038700317