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Transcript
Macroeconomic
and Industry Analysis
Chapter 17
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Framework of Analysis
Fundamental Analysis
Approach to Fundamental Analysis:
Domestic and global economic analysis
Industry analysis
Company analysis
Why use the top-down approach?
17-2
Global Economic Considerations
Performance in countries and regions is
highly variable.
Political risk
Exchange rate risk
Sales
Profits
Stock returns
17-3
Key Economic Variables
Gross domestic product
Unemployment rates
Interest rates & inflation
International measures
Consumer sentiment
17-4
Federal Government Policy
Fiscal Policy - government spending
and taxing actions.
Direct policy
Slowly implemented
17-5
Federal Government Policy (cont’d)
Monetary Policy - manipulation of the
money supply to influence economic
activity.
Initial & feedback effects
Tools of monetary policy
Open market operations
Discount rate
Reserve requirements
17-6
Demand Shocks
Demand shock - an event that affects
demand for goods and services in the
economy.
Tax rate cut
Increases in government spending
17-7
Supply Shocks
Supply shock - an event that influences
production capacity or production costs.
Commodity price changes
Educational level of economic participants
17-8
Business Cycles
Business Cycle
Peak
Trough
Industry relationship to business cycles
Cyclical
Defensive
17-9
NBER Cyclical Indicators: Leading
Leading Indicators - tend to rise and fall in
advance of the economy.
Examples:
Avg. weekly hours of production workers
Stock Prices
17-10
NBER Cyclical Indicators: Coincident
Coincident Indicators - indicators that tend
to change directly with the economy.
Examples:
Industrial production
Manufacturing and trade sales
17-11
NBER Cyclical Indicators: Lagging
Lagging Indicators - indicators that tend to
follow the lag economic performance.
Examples:
Ratio of trade inventories to sales
Ratio of consumer installment credit
outstanding to personal income
17-12
Industry Analysis
Sensitivity to business cycles
Factors affecting sensitivity of earnings to
business cycles:
Sensitivity of sales of the firm’s product to
the business cycles
Operating leverage
Financial leverage
Industry life cycles
17-13
Industry Life Cycles
Stage
Sales Growth
Start-up
Consolidation
Maturity
Relative Decline
Rapid & Increasing
Stable
Slowing
Minimal or Negative
17-14
Sector Rotation
Portfolio is adjusted by selecting
companies that should perform well for
the stage of the business cycle
Peaks – natural resource extraction firms
Contraction – defensive industries such as
pharmaceuticals and food
Trough – capital goods industries
Expansion – cyclical industries such as
consumer durables
17-15