International Finance: Stock Performance Analysis and Exchange Risk for Desklib

International Finance
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Requirement-1a
List of Stocks
Australia-based MNC
Name of Company Ticker
symbol
Amount of
Investment
Price per share
at
purchase (17
Nov 2017)
BHP Billiton Limited BHP.AX $10,000.00 27.12
Qantas Airways Limited QAN.AX $10,000.00 5.89
Foreign stocks (ADRs)
Name of Company Country
where
company
is based
Ticker
symbol
Amount of
Investmen
t
Price
per
share at
purchase
(17 Nov
2017)
CYBG PLC UK CYB.AX $10,000.00 5.43
IRON MOUNTAIN
INCORPORATED
USA INM.AX $10,000.00 53.63
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Week Wise Stock Performance
Week-1: 11/24/2017
Name of company
Stock price
at end
of the week
Percentage
change in
stock price Primary reason
BHP Billiton Limited 27.97 3.13%
BHP Billiton reported positive
financial results for the year 2017,
which caused increase in share price
(Yahoo finance, 2018).
Qantas Airways Limited 5.57 -5.43%
The company reported lower net
income in the year 2017, which
caused the stock to fall down
(Yahoo finance, 2018).
CYBG PLC 5.5 1.29%
The company is incurring losses,
but the stock price has shown a
positive move which appears to be
due to apprehensions of investors
about the good performance in
future (Yahoo finance, 2018).
IRON MOUNTAIN
INCORPORATED 54.43 1.49%
The financial performance of
company has not been good. The
increase in stock’s price seems to be
short term speculation effect.
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Portfolio (average) 0.12%
Week-2: 12/01/2017
Name of company
Stock price
at end
of the week
Percentag
e change
in
stock price Primary reason
BHP Billiton Limited 27.58 -1.39%
However, the financial performance
is improving, but the mining
industry in Australia is still in slack.
The move in price in this week
seems to be due to change in the
investor’s apprehensions about the
future of company’s performance.
Qantas Airways Limited 5.71 2.51%
Repositioning in the index funds
made stock price of the company to
rise (Financial Review, 2018).
CYBG PLC 5.73 4.18%
The recent reforms in banking and
finance sector in UK are causing
positive impact on the stock.
IRON MOUNTAIN
INCORPORATED 54.12 -0.57%
Weak financial performance has
shown its impact on the stock price
in this week.
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Portfolio (average) 1.18%
Week-3: 12/08/2017
Name of company
Stock price
at end
of the week
Percentag
e change
in
stock price Primary reason
BHP Billiton Limited 27.17 -1.49%
The fear in investors due to downfall
in mining industry is causing
decrease in stock price.
Qantas Airways Limited 5.34 -6.48%
There was news in the market that
the company may face slow growth.
This bad news caused stock to slope
down (Woodhouse, 2017).
CYBG PLC 5.76 0.52% Short term speculative effect
IRON MOUNTAIN
INCORPORATED 53.14 -1.81%
The company is facing severe cash
shortfall which is the main reason
for decease in volume.
Portfolio (average) -2.31%
Week-4: 12/15/2017
Name of company
Stock price
at end
Percentag
e change
Primary reason
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of the week
in
stock price
BHP Billiton Limited 27.71 1.99%
Despite mining industry being on
downfall, stock picked up a rise.
This seems to be due to large scale
operations and strong image of
company.
Qantas Airways Limited 5.06 -5.24%
The decreasing trend continued from
the last week.
CYBG PLC 5.66 -1.74%
Volatility in the banking sector in
UK
IRON MOUNTAIN
INCORPORATED 49.74 -6.40%
The company announced buy out of
IO Data for $1.32 billion. The
investors do not expect this buy out
to change the financial performance
of the company (Chang, 2018).
Portfolio (average) -2.85%
Week-5: 12/22/2017
Name of company
Stock price
at end
of the week
Percentag
e change
in
stock price Primary reason
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