Maybank and IOI Corporation: A Comparative Financial Stock Analysis

This report presents a comparative analysis of Maybank and IOI Corporation's stock performance from January 1, 2019, to January 1, 2020. Maybank, a major Southeast Asian bank, and IOI Corporation, a prominent player in the palm oil industry, are examined. The analysis includes trend identification, utilizing adjusted closing share prices to illustrate stock movements over the specified period. Both companies' stocks exhibited downward trends with some recovery phases. Maybank's stock decreased from 8.95 to 8.27, while IOI's stock declined from 4.7 to 4.23, both showing relative stability. The report includes data tables and graphical representations to visualize the share price fluctuations. The conclusion highlights the downward trend of Maybank and the recovery signs in IOI's stock towards the end of the analyzed period.

INTRODUCTION
One of the largest bank in southeast Asia and Malaysia is Maybank. It is
also listed on the stock exchange as one of the largest public company on
the Malaysian stock exchange. It was formed by the Malaysian business
tycoon with few partners in kuala Lumpur.It has an international network
of over 2400 branches and offices with over 20 countries. It provides
employment to more than forty five thousand people. In country Malaysia,
Maybank provides consumer, business and corporate banking as well as it
also provides private banking services through the wide network of branch
offices and automated teller machines involved into it.It also had a wide
range of operations in Singapore with over twenty twobranches operating
providing a whole range of banking and financial services and products to
its customers. The bank also functions across global financial centres like
New York, London, Hong Kong and others.
IOI Corporation Berthed, it is listed on the Principal market of Bursa
Malaysia Securities Berthed. It is one of the major oil players in the
market. It provides employment to more than 28000 people in several
countries. It is a company which is also involved in the business of
undertaking plantation services and resource-based services. The
boyishness of plantation covers Malaysia and Indonesia. The downstream
business consists of refining of palm oil.
IOI is also recognised as a one of the major players in producing palm oil
with a record of managing profitability efficiently through the commodity
cycle. The plantation produce is utilised in the manufacturing process of
the resources also involves in continuous effort to explore new business
opportunities in the downstream segment by doing investment in a new
technology and become more well equipped to produce higher value-
added palm-based derivatives. In the year 2019 a new, machinery also
established in order to produce pharma grade products and also to
develop new cosmetic and personal care applications.
Trend Analysis
On perusal of the data of adjusted closing share price of Maybank for the
last 12 months starting from 01-01-2019 to 01-01-2020, it has been
observed that shares have particularly shown a downward trend over the
period with a little recovery trend in the middle. Overall, the prices of the
stock has declined over the period from highest of 8.95 to lowest of 8.27.
However, the stock has remain stable with not a very large volatility. The

bank stock thus may be classified as stable stock. A pictorial
representation of the data along with table is presented as under:
Date Adj Close
01-01-2019 8.952985
01-02-2019 8.943601
01-03-2019 8.699599
01-04-2019 8.68083
01-05-2019 8.464983
01-06-2019 8.630562
01-07-2019 8.407022
01-08-2019 8.445898
01-09-2019 8.270955
01-10-2019 8.6
01-11-2019 8.53
01-12-2019 8.64
01-01-2020 8.43
1/1/2019
2/1/2019
3/1/2019
4/1/2019
5/1/2019
6/1/2019
7/1/2019
8/1/2019
9/1/2019
10/1/2019
11/1/2019
12/1/2019
1/1/2020
7.8
8
8.2
8.4
8.6
8.8
9
9.2
May Bank
On perusal of the graph of share price of IOI for the last 12 months
starting from 01-01-2019 to 01-01-2020, it has been observed that shares
have particularly shown a downward trend over the period with a little
recovery trend in the middle. Overall, the prices of the stock has declined
over the period from highest of 4.7 to lowest of 4.23. However, the stock
has remain stable with not a very large volatility. The oil stock thus may
be classified as stable stock. A pictorial representation is as under:

On basis of both graph it may be observed that IOI has shown signs of
recovery towards the end. However, Maybank has shown a downward
trend even at the end.