Mintyfresh –
Some of these financial numbers are in annual reports or Form 10K
filings with the SEC. Accessible, but the numbers for a large company
like Ford Motor are split into many sections. To figure each of your
ratios we need:
Current P/E: stock market price/trailing 12 months earnings per share
ROI: earnings per share/investments per share
ROE: earnings per share/equity per share
Most of the information will come from income statements; the equity
per share will be in the balance sheet portion of each company's
reports.
I'll let you assign the stock market price, depending on what day
you'd like to choose:
Audi trades on the Munich Stock Exchange (the Wall Street Journal will
have daily closing prices)
BMW trades on the Frankfurt Exchange
Ford Motor and Daimler-Chrysler trade on the NYSE
A large number of these files are Acrobat (PDF) files and they're
pretty big. A suggestion: find yourself a good high-speed connection
(at the library if you must) and be careful to print selective pages
that you're seeking. I often just print the "current page" to keep
the printer's work to a minimum.
AUDI CORPORATION
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Audi's overall financial page is clean and has some interesting
background information:
http://www.audi.com/com/en/company/financial_year_2001/financial_year_2001.jsp
Interim report, 1st 6 months 2002:
http://www.audi.com/reports/audi_interim_en_02.pdf
Audi 2001 Annual Report:
http://www.audi.com/com/en/company/financial_year_2001/annual_report_download_2001.jsp
Audi 2000 Annual Report (which contains 1999 information, so you don't
have to download that report):
http://www.audi.com/com/en/company/financial_year_2001/financial_year_2000/financial_year_2000.jsp
BMW
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The BMW Investor Relations page includes a link for share price, as
well as other information. Be careful, these links are long and you
may need to copy them manually into your browser:
http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/nav/index.html?http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/2_investor_relations/2_investor_relations.shtml?3_0
The BMW 1st 6 months 2002 report:
http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/2_investor_relations/2_2_publikationen/2_2_3_zwischenbericht_0602/bmwgroup_q2002_englisch.pdf
These are the BMW Group Financial Statements for 2001, which should
enable you to prepare ROI and ROE numbers, as well as work towards a
current P/E. The 2001 numbers always have a comparison to 2000; 1999
numbers can be found starting on page 14 of this report:
http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/2_investor_relations/2_2_publikationen/2_2_1_geschaeftsbericht_01/2_2_1_1_alle_downloads_im_ueberblick/pdfs/05_BMW_AnRep2001.pdf
DAIMLER-CHRYSLER
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Daimler-Chrysler's Investor Relations page is linked below (and
includes up-to-date stock prices). It uses frames, so you'll be using
the D-C web page to retrieve documents for you:
http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/index_e.htm
The company is now in Q4 of FY2002, so it has three quarters of
information available in its "Interim Report, Q3 2002". Make sure
that you select "The Complete Interim Report Q3 2002 (pdf-file, 728
kB)" from the above page, as the summary statistics will NOT answer
all of your questions.
For the annual reports, select "Reports/Presentations." I did not
download the 2001 annual report, but if it is missing 1999
information, you can get that from the SEC Edgar site here:
http://www.secinfo.com/$/Search.asp?Find=Daimler-Chrysler
For example, the Annual Report/Form 10-K for the company in 2000 is
linked here:
http://www.secinfo.com/dsvR3.41P7.htm
FORD MOTOR
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Ford Motor also has an excellent Investor Information page, which even
includes a link for the current stock price:
http://www.ford.com/en/ourCompany/investorInformation/default.htm
Ford is in its 3rd quarter now, so has the first half of the year's
income statements here, in either HTML or PDF format. You can also
look at last year's quarterlies to develop your rolling 12-month
earnings statement:
http://www.ford.com/en/ourCompany/investorInformation/companyReports/quarterlyEarningsReports/default.htm
The last 5 years annual reports are here, making access convenient.
You may want to be careful with Ford numbers, as Ford Credit and Ford
Automotive are the two main business units:
http://www.ford.com/en/ourCompany/investorInformation/companyReports/annualReports.htm
There are times when access to a good business library is easier than
using the Internet. This is one case. If you can find the annual
report files, at least Ford Motor and Daimler-Chrysler financial
reports will be there – and they'll be easier to skim through or copy.
Google search strategy:
"Ford Motor"
"Audi Corporation"
BMW
"Daimler-Chrysler"
http://www.secinfo.com/
Please let me know if anything is unclear before rating this question!
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA |
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