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A 10 page paper finding and assessing several financial ratios based on British Airways' 2005-2006 annual report. British Airways' financial position is strong but continuation and further improvement depend on the airlines' ability to continue to practice sound management. Investors determined to invest in an airline should find it attractive. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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File: CC6_KSfinBritAir.rtf
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British Airways perennially is one of the worlds leading and most profitable airlines. It routinely outperforms the US airline industry against which British Airways listing on the New York
Stock Exchange (NYSE) facilitates comparison. As a high percentage of American airlines are operating under bankruptcy protection or recently have emerged from that protection (i.e., United Airlines), British Airways
not only remains profitable but improves its performance year on year. Financial analysis of the companys most recent annual report reveals that the
airline financially is quite sound and seeks to increase both passenger traffic and revenues. It carries a current market capitalization of more than $9 billion, more than twice that
of the leading US-based airline on the NYSE and leading all major airlines listed on the NYSE. All of the worlds major airlines
suffered in the post-9/11 decline in air travel. British Airways still is in the process of recovering from that difficult time but persistently is reducing the debt incurred in
that and subsequent years before air travel recovered. The number of air passengers declined in 2006, but revenues increased as did revenue passenger kilometer (RPK) (2005/2006 Annual Report and
Accounts, 2006). Financial Analysis Profitability and Efficiency There are four profitability ratios, each of which provides specific information for the investor and for
the companys management. The profitability ratios are operating profit margin, net profit margin, return on assets and return on equity. Operating and net profit margins provide management with
measures of how well the company is doing what it intends to do. Investors may be interested in these ratios, but they likely
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