Volkswagen and Porsche - Corporate Finance Case study: Mergers & Acquisitions of listed companies by Joachim Häcker What is the macro view of this case study? Small fish tries to eat big fish (financial figures are end of 2005 and rounded): VW: Market cap: €16 bn Book value: €24 bn Cash and cash equivalent: €8 bn (+€4 bn marketable securities) Porsche: Market cap: €11 bn Book value: €3.4 bn Cash and cash equivalent: €3.6 bn VW Porsche case study – by Joachim Häcker Seite 1
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Porsche Q+A of group 1 The buying decision process: Need recognition Information Search Evaluation of alternatives Purchase decision and Post purchase behavior Question 1 Analyze the buyer decision process of a traditional Porsche customer. The traditional Porsche customer‚ follow the first stage 1) Need Recognition. Most of the traditional Porsche customer is a financially successful people who see themselves entrepreneurial. They are highly demanded. They buy the car to stand for their
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Porsche 1. How does Porsche differ – operating structure‚ financial results‚ etc. – from other major European-based auto manufacturers? To begin with Porsche is a privately owned company controlled by the Porsche and Piéch family. They hold all the 8.75 million voting shares while mainly large institutional investors hold the other 8.75 million non-voting shares. Despite the fact that stock exchange and analysts’ requests more frequent and more detailed financial reporting Porsche is not
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1) Do you believe that Porsche’s management is appropriately concerned with stockholder wealth? Does Porsche’s ownership structure work to the benefit or detriment of public shareholders? Although Porsche is publicly traded‚ the company is controlled by only two stockholders‚ the Porsche and Piéch families. As the quotation by Holger Härter makes clear‚ the two families hold exclusive shareholder influence over management. An interesting point for class discussion is whether the families actually
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Volkswagen now owns them but this solidifies their existence because VW is such a big company that it will never let Porsche go belly up even through toughest of times. They also have been around for a very long time and have a very recognizable name across the world. Porsche also has a very strong influence and presence in the motor racing world. In fact‚ almost all cars that Porsche built are basically purpose-built racing machines. They have been victorious in almost all races they took part since
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the light of this that dividend decision ought to be evaluated with the aim of maximizing the firm to its shareholder through market price of the share and the current dividend. Rey holds (2001) noted that despite the common assertion that higher wealth gains to shareholders. Would result from the use of repurchases instead of dividends‚ firms continue to increases the size of dividends annually and not increases repurchase at an even faster rate. This indicates that dividend remain a mystery. The
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ASSIGNMENT ON Analysis of financial statement using ratio analysis of Power & Fuel Sector Submitted To: Ms. Rumana Ahmed Assistant Professors Department of Accounting & Information Systems Faculty of Business Studies Univeristy of Dhaka Submitted By A.H.A Elahi Rumi…….11221032 Md.Shahidur Rahman…11221049 Md.Nuruzzaman……….10915052 Faysal Ahmed………….11120029 Md.Lear Hossain……….11222052 Shovan Ahmed…………11222012 Program: MBA (Evening) Date of submission: February 5‚
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Porsche Porsche-Marketing The automotive market The automotive market comprehends the design‚ the development‚ the manufacturing and the distribution of the vehicles. This market includes all kind of vehicles with motor‚ but only the ones of combustion engines. This is one of the markets that make the world economy grow‚ in fact the automotive market is the world’s most important economic sector by revenue. This market as sated above does only include the four main principles of the car market
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Amazon Dividend policy Amazon.com (NASDAQ.AMZA) had one of the best performing stocks of the internet era. When their stocks collapse in the early 2000’s along with their peers‚ when the internet boom briefly turned broken‚ Amazon decided to broaden its original scope‚ going beyond the book market and include all things e-retail. The company also went in new directions with initiatives that eventually led to the cloud-computing pioneer Amazon Web Services and a host of other business ideas. The
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9-511-068 REV: MARCH 29‚ 2011 JOHN DEIGHTON JILL AVERY JEFFREY FEAR Por rsche: The Cayenne Launch T h In March 2003 the Porsche brand faced a challenge without pre d e ecedent in 55 years. Sinc the 5 ce launch of the Pors h sche 356 in 19 948‚ the brand had stood f expensive high-performance sports cars. d for e‚ s Its de esigns‚ varyin little over the decades‚ formed and then came to reflect the notion of a c ng o classic sports car. It was a connoisseu racing ve
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