Alfaisal University

College of Business

201FIN Assignment
The Principles of Finance
Dr. Ahmed
2021
The Saudi Stock Exchange Market (Tadawul)
Assignment instructions:

In this assignment you need to do a presentation during the class in week 13 and you need to
submit a report by Monday week 13 maximum. The presentation worth 10 marks and the
report 10 marks for a total of 20 marks.

Aims of assignment

You should develop, through research and analytical skills, the ability to:
1. Locate sources of information for your companies, industries and market of
choice.
2. Use several quantitative and IT tools to present and analyze collected data
3. Check the performance of a particular sector of the market

Important Notes

 The assignment should be conducted individually or a group of two or three

maximum.

 You need to choose three companies and upload the choice on Moodle.

 Submit a hard copy by Week 13 Monday during the class.

 You need to do a professional presentation using a power-points software or similar

software and your report using word software. Table should be done using excel
sheet.

 Late submission will have 20% of the mark deducted per day.

 Copying from the Internet or any other source without referencing is considered as a
cheating case and the student will be penalized according to Al Faisal University
policy.
 Tasks
You will be assigned to analyze three companies from Tadawul. To assist you in answering
the questions you can use Tadawul official website.

Task 1. (20%)
General information about the company

Q1. What does your company do?

Q2. Who are the companies’ owners? How much they own? Is there any institutional

investors in the company?

Q3. Who are the company’s main competitors?

Q4. What was the par value of the company in its initial public offering (IPO)? When did the

companies join the Saudi market?

Q5. What is the current company’s share price?

Q6. How many shares of the company are outstanding?

Q7. What is the market value of the companies?

Task 2.
The Company annual reports and share price information

Collect data on the company for the past 2 years (2019 and 2020) for the following variables:
 Share price;
 Volume;
 Balance sheet;
 Income statement;
 Cash flow statement;
 The Saudi market general index “Tadawul All Share Index, TASI”.
 The companies’ sector index.
The companies’ operating performance (40%)

Investigate and analyse the latest two Financial Statements (you can find them from the
company’s website or from Tadawul). Assess the companies’ performance by looking at the
appropriate liquidity ratios, asset management ratios, Leverage ratios, Profitability ratios and
market value ratios. Compare the company performance over the past three years (time-series
analysis) and with each other, peer group analysis.

The company’s share price performance (40%)

You need to assess the company’s share price performance over the past two years (24
months). You need to do the following:
 Comment on the share price performance for the last two years;
 Compare the three companies share price performance;
 Compare the share price performance between the company with its industry index,
did the company outperform or underperform the industry;
 Compare the share price performance of the company with TASI, did it
out/underperform TASI?

End of assignment