The report contains an overall financial analysis of the performance of A-Cap resources limited in past four years. The analysis include the calculation of ratios like ROA, ROE and debt ratio. Further, stock price analysis and calculation of WACC is also done along with the evaluation of debt ratio and dividend policy. The report also contains some announcements made by the company which affected its stock prices.
An ASX and Botswana listed company that deals in exploration of minerals in Australia. It mainly explores coal deposits and uranium. The main focus of the company is to advance its significant uranium project operating in Botswana. The ticker of the company is ASX: ACB and BSE: A-Cap (“A-Cap Resources Ltd.”, 2018).
None of these people are involve in substantial shareholdings of the company.
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A-Cap Resources Limited Financial Statements for year 2013-16 |
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Particulars |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
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AUD$ |
AUD$ |
AUD$ |
AUD$ |
|
|
EBIT |
-2,145,610 |
-2,969,116 |
-1,307,836 |
-2,762,418 |
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Net profit |
-3,005,965 |
3,508,626 |
-344,606 |
-4,144,083 |
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Total Assets |
42,633,116 |
50,180,731 |
54,595,069 |
55,060,277 |
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Total Liabilities |
1,193,038 |
974,181 |
772,756 |
492,656 |
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Shareholders’ Equity |
41,440,078 |
49,206,550 |
53,822,313 |
54,567,621 |
(“Annual report 2015”, 2015)
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1. Rate of Return on Assets |
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2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
|
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A. Net income |
-3,005,965 |
3,508,626 |
-344,606 |
-4,144,083 |
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B. Total assets |
42,633,116 |
50,180,731 |
54,595,069 |
55,060,277 |
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(A/B) |
-7.05% |
7% |
-1% |
-8% |
(“Annual report 2017”, 2017)
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2. Rate of Return on Equity |
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2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
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A. Net income available to equity shareholders |
-3,005,965 |
3,508,626 |
-344,606 |
-4,144,083 |
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B. Shareholder’s Equity |
41,440,078 |
49,206,550 |
53,822,313 |
54,567,621 |
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(A/B) |
-7.25% |
7.13% |
-0.64% |
-7.59% |
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3. Debt Ratio |
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2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
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A. Total Liabilities |
1,193,038 |
974,181 |
772,756 |
492,656 |
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B. Total assets |
42,633,116 |
50,180,731 |
54,595,069 |
55,060,277 |
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(A/B) |
3% |
2% |
1% |
1% |
Proving the equation
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2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
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|
AUD$ |
AUD$ |
AUD$ |
AUD$ |
|
|
EBIT |
-2,145,610 |
-2,969,116 |
-1,307,836 |
-2,762,418 |
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NPAT |
-3,005,965 |
3,508,626 |
-344,606 |
-4,144,083 |
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OE |
41,440,078 |
49,206,550 |
53,822,313 |
54,567,621 |
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TA |
42,633,116 |
50,180,731 |
54,595,069 |
55,060,277 |
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EBIT/TA (1) |
– 0.05 |
– 0.06 |
– 0.02 |
– 0.05 |
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NPAT/EBIT (2) |
1.40 |
– 1.18 |
0.26 |
1.50 |
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TA/OE (3) |
1.03 |
1.02 |
1.01 |
1.01 |
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NPAT/OE (4) |
– 0.07 |
0.07 |
– 0.01 |
– 0.08 |
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1*2*3= 4 |
– 0.07 |
0.07 |
– 0.01 |
– 0.08 |
TA/OE stands for Total Assets/ Owners’ equity, the variable used as a formula of equity multiplier. The multiplier is used in DuPont analysis in which ROE is divided into its components. The multiplier measure the degree of financial leverage of a company. TA/OE do impact the relationship between ROA and ROE. With an increase in Total assets, the multiplier increases resulting in decrease in ROA. On the other side ROA increases which boosts up ROE but the multiplier remains same. Thus, it can be concluded that rise in equity multiplier will increase ROE but reduces ROA (Leach & Melicher, 2011).
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Calculation of Required rate of return |
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Risk free rate (A) |
4% |
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Beta (B) |
5.43 |
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Market Risk premium (C) |
6% |
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Required rate of return [A+(B*C)] |
36.58% |
Conservative investment means having low return and low risk. Company has negative ROE from the past two years and its standard deviation is also 0.22 which is very low. It cannot be considered as conservative because it provides negative return to its shareholders and was making losses from past years.
Cost of Equity (calculated above) = 36.58%
Cost of Debt = 0%
WACC= cost of equity + cost of debt
= 36.58% + 05%
= 36.58%
A-Cap follows no dividend policy as its main activities are exploration of minerals, so it has not yet declared any dividends to its shareholders. Moreover, it was earning losses and does not sufficient earnings to declare dividends (Gitman, Juchau & Flanagan, 2015)
From the overall analysis it will be recommend not to include this company is investment portfolio. Reasons being its negative returns, no dividends declaration and net losses. Its financial performance is not so much promising, so it will be better to avoid making investment in it.
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