Introduction
This report will have five main sections. At first will show the company background, to introduce some details like headquarter, business type, share price, short history and so on for the company. Then will describe the prominent movement for company share price from six weeks. After that it will give the reasons for share price movement. What happened in that times and how to influence the share price. In the end is the conclusion, will summarizes the key sections of this report.
Background of company
The International Consolidated Airline Group (IAG) is one of the biggest airline holding company, headquartered n London. It founded in 2011, consisted of British Airways and Iberia. IAG has 60,089 employees, 415 aircraft and serves around 200 destinations in the world. It part of the FTSE 100 index in London Stock Exchange. The share price of IAG was 413.90P on 10 April, 2014. (London Stock Exchange 2014)The Group’s profit after exceptional items, was £122 million, with earnings of 53 pence(IAG Annual Report 2013). In April 2013, Vueling joined in the IAG. It’s a airline focused on providing a premium service at a low price. In the future, IAG will leadership in main cities and across the Atlantic, Stronger Europe-to-Asia position and growing share of Europe-to-Affric routes.
Description of share price movement
The share price of IAG was overall increased by nearly six weeks from 3 March 2014 to 11 April 2014 and has six periods throw these times. In the first period, the share price was beginning at 422.80P on 3 March, it has jumped by 4% to 439.90P on 4 March. Then it increased 7.3P top out at 447.20P on 6 March, increased slowly than before. After that, share price declined significantly from 447.20P to 433.10P on next four days until 10 March. In the second period, share price increase by 2.5% from 433.10P to 444.00P on 11 March. And the share price remains stable on next
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