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This 8 page paper examines the performance of Alcoa Inc. the global integrated aluminium company. The paper looks first at the background of the company and then conducts a ratio analysis of financial years 1998 – 2002, the latest year is compared to industry averages. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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industry as a whole, but does need to make some improvements such as cutting costs, to maintain a string position. To understand this the company, its history and position within
the market need to be understood before a ratio analysis can be fully appreciated in the correct context. Alcoa Inc is a
major producer of aluminium, both semi fabricated and finished as well as alumina (Alcoa, 2003). The company has activities in a range of areas in the value chain, from
mining, refining smelting and fabricating to recycling and the technology that is involved at all stages. The markets that are sold to are also wide ranging. The revenue of $20.3
billion comes form a range of sectors, automotive, aerospace and commercial transportation sectors take some of the goods. But the majority of sales come from either packaging and consumers
goods, which accounted for $5 billion in 2002 and 2001, and 4.9 billion in 2000, rising from only $3.9 billion in 1998, or the aluminium and Alumina market, which accounted
for $4.9 billion in 2002, $5.4 billion in 2001, $5.8 in 2000, $4 billion and $3.8 billion in 19999 and 1998 respectively (Alcoa, 2003). The two main types of product
are flat rolled which made up $4.6 billion of sales in 2002 and engineered products which made up $5 billion. Operating in 40 countries and owner of severs consumer brand
names such as Alcoa wheels, Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil, and Baco household wraps this is a large and well known company (Alcoa, 2003). The aluminium industry may be seen as
stating in 1808, when Sir Humphry Davy discovered the metal and named it and physicist Hans Christian Oersted managed to produce a small amount of the metal (Alcoa,
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