Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics -
Investment and Finance, University of applied sciences, Nürnberg,
language: English, abstract: This assignment deals with the evaluation
of the performance of the DB Group. Since the financial statement
provides a lot of important data and information about the economic
performance of a company a financial statement analysis will be
performed to get an idea about the financial situation of the DB Group.
Since the DB Group is a 100% government-owned holding company the equity
investors are all German. Therefore each German should have an interest
in the performance of the DB Group. The analysis is mainly based on a
financial ratio analysis because the examination of key ratios provides
in an easy way insights into how a firm is performing relative to former
years, competitors and the industry. The benchmark company is the
Deutsche Post DHL because it is the number one transport and logistic
company in Germany (regarding revenue) followed by the DB Group. The
financial statement analysis will show the development of the assets and
the profitability in the last decade. Also it creates a feeling for the
growth and risks of the company. Therefore an investment, a financial,
profitability and a liquidity analysis is performed to demonstrate the
strength and weaknesses of the DB Group.
