Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on The Steel Industry. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 28 page paper is an examination of the global steel industry. The first part of the paper looks at the historical and the current performance and structure of the steel industry. The paper then looks at the performance of three international steel companies representative of different segments of the steel industry; The United States Steel Corporation, China Precision Steel Inc. and Acrelor Mittal. The background of each company is outlines and the financial performance is assessed with ratio analysis before an assessment of the stock performance and the stock price. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
Page Count:
28 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEsteelindn.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
Steel Inc. 18 4.1 Company Background 18 4.2 Financial Analysis 19 4.3 Stock performance and valuation 21 5. Acrelor Mittal 22 5.1 Company Background 22 5.2 Financial Analysis 24 6. Comparison and Conclusion 28 References 30
1. Introduction The steel industry is a major industry that is said to shadow economic development, as an economy develops and infrastructure is built the
demand for steel increases. It is a major industry which is needed by many other industries, not only construction, but also needed for the automotive and transport industries, manufacturing plant
and equipment, medical and scientific tools to name a few. The reality is that the steel industry is one of the core industries of any developed or developing nations.
There is a need for steel, and as such a need for companies that are able to produce, manufacture and sell steel. With the demand increasing significantly over the
last century this may be assumed to be a boom industry, other industries that provide essential goods have seen a general trend of increased revenues and profits and been able
to satisfy shareholder demands for good returns, this has been seen in the oil industry. However, the steel industry is more complex. There is not a scarcity of resources used
to make steel, so there are not the same barriers of entry to the industry, nor are the same controls that are seen as a result of OPEC; the cartel
that controls the oil industry. This lays the foundation of a very different and potentially more volatile industry especially when there are some governments that subsidise their steel industries which
has an impact on the level and effectiveness of competition. There is little doubt that with the broad range of industries that are reliant on steel this
...