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Figure 1. Changes in Net sales, EBIT and NI of TDG from 2016 to 2018 5
I. Company overview
- Company name: THAIDUONG PETROL JOINT STOCK COMPANY
- Abbreviated name: Thaiduongpetrol., JSC
- Securities symbol: TDG
- Regulation Capital: 167.7 billion VND
- Address: Lot D1, Dinh Tram Industrial Park, Viet Yen District, Bac Giang Province
- Telephone: (84-240) 2244.903
- Fax: (84-240) 3661.311
- Email: thaiduongpetrol@fpt.vn
- Website: http://thaiduongpetrol.vn
- Business Registration Certificate No. 2400345718
- Issue date: July 13, 2005
Horizontal analysis showed that profit ratios tended to increase and reached the highest level in
2017 but decreased relatively much in 2018.
Specifically, net sales have experienced a steady growth over the past 3 years, from 221,798 mil
in 2016 to 523,263 mil in 2018. As TDG sold more goods, its net sales went up and cost of goods
sold also witnessed the same trend. However, it is worth noting that cost of goods sold is
accounting for an increasing proportion of sales (83.76% in 2017 and 97.71% in 2018), indicating
that the company is not effective in controlling production costs. This led to a significant decrease
in EBIT in 2018 (by 5,548 million) - although net sales did increase steadily every year.
In 2018, while some of the company's expenses were reduced, such as administration, and
income from financial operations increased, Other expenses such as selling expense and interest
expense increased more significant and at a faster pace. To specify, interest expense increased
by 888 million and selling expenses increased by 6,146 million. As a result, TDG's EBT
plummeted to 16,315 million last year, the lowest in 3 years - while this figure in 2017 was
29,007 million.
For vertical analysis, it is clear that most of the company’s revenue was used to pay for
production cost, as this item account for around 80% - 90%. Selling expenses came next, at more
or less 4% over the past 3 years, followed closely by interest expense.
The percentages of EBIT declined in 2018 and remained below 10%. As for net income, the
proportion of this item was only 2.75% in 2018 - a deep decline compared to 2017 (9.62%).
In conclusion, this company was making profit but its profit was decreasing because of increase
in some operating expenses.
Figure 1. Changes in Net sales, EBIT and NI of TDG from 2016 to 2018
Changes in expenses
Current
Current assets 117,263 54.84% 105,831 39.09% 162,614 47.67% 62,844 29.39% 90,767 33.53% 143,313 42.02%
liabilities
Accounts Owner’s
5,037 2.36% 931 0.34% 75,987 22.28% 150,990 70.61% 179,973 66.47% 194,380 56.99%
receivable equity
Common
Inventory 96,686 45.22% 88,468 32.68% 71,716 21.03% stock & paid 129,000 60.33% 129,000 47.65% 167,700 49.17%
in surplus
Property, plant
96,572 45.16% 164,909 60.91% 178,478 52.33%
and equipment
TOTAL 213,834 100% 270,740 100% 341,092 100% TOTAL 213,834 100% 270,740 100% 341,092 100%
Changes in assets
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Current assets Fixed assets TOTAL
Over the past 3 years, the total capital of the business grew steadily, from 213,834 mil in 2016
to 341,092 mil in 2018. TDG's current liabilities nearly doubled in 2014 to 143,313 mil in 2018,
It can be seen that this figure was decreasing year by year. To specify: in 2016 and 2017 net cash
flow were respectively 14,446 and 644. However, in 2018, this number decreased to -1,454. The
reason is:
Net cash flow from operating activities is negative, reaching -8,268 in 2018, an increase of 2,000
mil from the previous year. This reduction was mainly caused by high prepaid expenses and
always accounts for the largest proportion. In 2018, 74,727 millions was paid out on prepaid
expenses, increasing about 4,000 mil compared to that of 2017. Due to prepayments of some
expenses such as renting and warehousing in the petrol industry is relatively high, this item of
the company increased sharply.
In addition, it can be seen that account receivables is another factor leading to a decline in TDG
cash flow from operating activities in 2018 of TDG. As shown in the balance sheet, in 2018 the
company had difficulty collecting its money from customers, so account receivables decreased
sharply to -11,597 mil, while this number in 2017 was 3,856. In addition, the company has to
spend more and more money to pay interest expenses, so cash flow from operating activities
tends to decrease
As for cash flow from investment activities and financing activities, it is always positive that
these two activities of the company are effective
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2016 2017 2018
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-200,000
Solvency
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2016 2017 2018
V. Efficiency ratios
Receivables Turnover
We can see that the higher the Receivables Turnover, the lower the Days of sales outstanding. In
2017, the receivables turnover of TDG was 100.95 rounds, corresponding to the average of 4
days. In 2018, this ratio decreased to 22.5 for 16 days. This rotation from 2016 was 4.25 soared
to 100.95 in 2017, showing that in this period, the company did better business. The company’s
cash collection period is on the rise showing that the company should have to improve its sales
policy and work more flexibly so that it could get money quickly without losing customers and
energy to compete against competitors.
Inventory Turnover Ratio
The inventory turnover of TDG in 2017 was 2.73 times, corresponding to 134 days’ sales in
inventory. In 2018, the figure increased to 5.99 times and decreased to 61 days’ sales in inventory
because high cost of goods sold grew while inventories tended to decrease.
The increase in inventory turnover is good because the company’s petroleum products are very
volatile and vulnerable when stored in storage for too long, which also costs the company an
additional maintenance cost. Thanks to this high turnover, TDG can increase its ability to recover
capital, reduce stagnancy and storage cost, speed up consumption and increase cash flow
prospect into the business.
ROA
Generally, all the profitability index in 2018 decreased markedly.
ROA: in 2018, ROA of 4.71% means that the company generated 4.71% in profit for every 1
VND it has invested in its assets. From 2016 to 2018, the ROA of TDG decreased from 13.28%
to 8.29%.
This ratio is low and has tendency to decrease, revealing that the company is inefficient in
generating profit from asset.
The reason is that average total assets increased from 242,287 million VND to 305,916 million
VND from 2017 to 2018 but net income halved from 28,983 million VND to 14,408 million
VND. As mentioned before, Net income dropped sharply because of significant increase in cost
of goods sold, interest and selling expense were greater than 2 previous years.
Therefore, the company should take measures to exploit the production capacity of existing assets,
and at the same time enhance the working capital management in order to improve the efficiency
of capital use and increase profitability.
ROE
ROE of the TDG in both 2017 and 2018 were high. This shows that the company operated
efficiently because the revenue and the financial income rise. In 2018 the ROE of TDG was 17.7%
meaning that TDG generated 17.7% profit for every 1 VND of shareholders' equity. In order to
increase profits, the company should take measures to manage costs more effectively.
Gross profit margin and Net profit margin
It can be seen that net profit margin and gross profit margin between 2016 and 2018 had the
similar trend. Both proportion decreased over the years.
For net profit margin, this indicator plummeted from 2017 to 9.62 to 2.75 in 2018. This sharp
decline is due to the increase in the net income was lower than the sales growth. Specifically, the
company's net income tended to decrease from 28,983 million VND in 2017 to 14,408 million
VND in 2018, while revenue increased sharply from 301,325 million to 523,263 million VND
(up 222,028 million VND). This is a quite big difference, making the net profit margin over 2
years reduced to 6.86%.
Overall, profitability ratios in 2018 of Thaiduong Petrol corporation (TDG) were higher than its
chief competitor- Petrovietnam Southern Gas corporation (HGS). This means the company has
been doing more business effectively in 2018 to be able to surpass its competitors in the Vietnam
market.
In terms of short-term solvency, Thaiduong Petrol corporation ensured the ability to pay short-
term debt than its rival company. Current ratio of TDG in 2018 was 1.13 while this figure of
HGS was only 0.90. This showed that HGS company was having problems paying its current
liabilities.
Solvency/ Liquidity
Through the calculated ratios above, it can be seen that cash ratio, quick ratio and current
ratio were still small and decreasing. This reveals that the company was having problem
in paying off its debts. Interest coverage index also increased showed that TDG was less
efficient in paying interests on loans.
Asset management
Overall, the inventory turnover, FAT, total asset turnover indexes were high and increased
throughout the years shows that the company was doing better in exploiting its assets to
generate more sales.
However, account receivable was relatively high and it still took a lot of time to collect
payments from customers. In this case, TDG needs to take measure to improve this index
and keep others indexes increasing so as to get more revenues.
Profitability
In general, DTG was less efficient in generating profitability because most of the ratios
such as ROA, net profit margin, gross profit margin (expect for ROE) declined greatly
through calculations. It is also noticeable from the income statement that although sales
kept increasing, NI didn’t reflect similar trend because of the growth in proportion of cost
of goods sold and other expenses.
This means that the enterprise didn’t manage well its expenses, making net income fall.
Financial leverage
In general, the company had a bad financial structure because both the total debt ratio and
debt/equity ratio increased, which is a bad signal for the company. It reflects that TDG
was more dependent from external funding for its operation and also posed some risks for
the lenders of the company as the amount of equity increased slower than its debt.
Market value ratios
For the past 3 years, all the market value ratios represent that the company’s value is
downwards and the equity’s benefits declined.