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FIN 600: Advanced Financial Management Summer 2016 Prof. Miroslav Mateev PROJECT CHEVRON Co. Student name 1 Student name 2 Student name 3 Student name 4 2 Content: Executive Summary 3 The Industry 4 History 4 Challenges 4 Outlook 4 Current Position 5 Influences 5 The company 6 Challenges 7 Time Trend, Peer Group Analysis 8 Liquidity 9 Asset Management 9 Debt Management 11 Profitability 12 Market Value Evaluation 13 Free Cash Flow and Net Cash Flow 14 Conclusion 15 References 16 2 3 Executive Summary Chevron Co. is a well-established operating mainly in the oil, gas and geothermal industries. It is known for its excellent performance, great achievements, and well-functioning operating process over the years. Even though, Chevron's headquarters is in San Ramon, California, it successfully runs in more than 180 different countries taking a good care of its workers, shareholders, partners and clients. The industry in which Chevron Co. operates is risky and fluctuates a lot depending on many internal and external factors such as micro and macro downturns, demographics, government regulations, etc. The recent challenges that the industry has faced were connected to climate changes, growing energy demand, finding raw materials, global economic crisis of 2007 and some others. Currently, company's performance is mostly depended on prices of raw materials. However, disregard the outside pressure, Chevron Co. is withstanding all the downwards of the industry and performs well comparing to its close industry competitors such as Shell and Exxon. According to the following financial analysis, Chevron has a strong position on the market due to its low reliance on debt, stable performance of DSO ratio, and wise use of assets. However, the Free Cash Flow is not showing positive changes over the resent years, the analysts come to the conclusion that it is a temporary decline due to the recent industry difficulties, mainly oil price drops. Overall, Chevron Co. can be considered as not riskless, but worthy investment with great perspectives in the future. 3 4 The Industry Chevron operates in the energy sector. It deals with the mining and refinery of oil gas and petrol product. This sector, by itself includes all of the other industries involved in the production, and sale of energy. Hence, it is a vital part of the infrastructure and maintenance of society in all countries. History The history of the energy sector could be divided into two parts: before the industrial revolution and after. The Industrial Revolution marked a major change in the way people obtained energy. It was a significant leap from animal generated power, for example, into an industrialized way of attaining energy. The official start was marked by the creation of the first commercial steam engine by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.1 Wind and water were substituted with coal and steam engines. The energy sector has gone a long way, but it has always an essential part of people's lives as it plays a vital role in the development and sustainability of countries worldwide. The efficient management of this sector would benefit every society, as it is present in almost every aspect of people's lives: transportation, agriculture, waste collection, information technology, communications, etc. Challenges Although the Industrial Revolution brought many positive changes to the energy sector, it also came along with some challenges. Overall demand increased significantly, which, generally accepted as a positive feature, in this case, also brought a number of serious problems. Some of the biggest challenges the energy industry faces are: climate change (global warming), ever growing demand for energy, thus threatening sustainability, energy security, finding new raw materials, etc. One of the main issues is global warming, where major action is required to mitigate it. One way of dealing with this problem would be the reducing of the greenhouse gas emissions released by traffic and transport.2 Outlook The most authoritative source of estimating the outlook of the energy sector is the annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) issued by the International Energy Agency. In its 2013 edition, it forecasted the rise of global energy demand by one - third by 2035. 3 Overall, the WEO for 2013 underlined three key areas of critical importance to energy and climate trends. First, the achievement of universal energy access, second, the developments in subsidies to fossil fuels and renewables, and last but not least the impact of energy use on climate change.4 In its 2014 edition, the WEO forecasts a rapid evolvement of the world energy sector, which will: 1 http://environ.andrew.cmu.edu/m3/s3/01history.shtml 2 "Climate Change and Human Health RISKS AND RESPONSES." (2003). Web. 3 World Energy Outlook 2013. Paris: OECD/IEA, 2013. Print. 4 World Energy Outlook 2013. Paris: OECD/IEA, 2013. Print. 4 5 \"reshape long - held expectations for our energy future\". 5Another reliable source of analyzing the energy industry outlook is the Annual Energy Outlook issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.6 Although its main focus is the U.S. energy industry, the report has some interesting points. Some of its highlights include the significant increase in the usage of crude oil (9.6 million barrels per day), the decrease of imported fuels in the U.S., and the higher natural gas production. Overall, the analysis tries to convince the reader that the U.S. energy sector is flourishing as imports are decreasing and exports are increasing. Current Position Currently the energy industry is considered to be in the late-cycle phase, which has duration of, on average, a year and a half. In this phase, the overall stock market performance of the energy sector is \"a little over 5% on an annualized basis\".(Web, October 2014) Plus, as the energy sector is closely tied to the prices of raw materials, a pattern of outperformance is seen in the energy sector during the late business phase. As the average or median relative performance increase, an increase of the cycle-hit rates is also noticed. Therefore, as the economic recovery matures, the energy sector, whose fate is closely tied to the prices of raw materials, previously have done well as inflationary pressures build and the late-cycle economic expansion helps maintain solid demand. Moreover, the energy sector has seen the most convincing patterns of outperformance in the late cycle. With its high average and median relative performance along with a high cycle hit rate.7 Influences The energy industry is highly susceptible to all kinds of changes in the environment. Some of the key factors influencing it are the micro and macroeconomic downturns, demographics, and government regulations. The economic and political instability are also of high importance to the sector as they can lead to an energy crisis. Examples of such cases are the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 oil crisis. The recent economic crisis from 2007-2008 has profoundly affected the industry. The sharp decrease in investments has led to a decrease in the demand.8 Thus, the overall investment in energy supply is likely to be reduced substantially in the next few years. It could be concluded, that the economic downturn from the recent years has had a huge impact on the energy sector. Demographics changes also play an important role in the energy industry. According to a recent WWF report, human population is currently consuming an average of 25% more natural resources 5 World Energy Outlook 2013. Paris: OECD/IEA, 2014. Print. 6 "U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis." Annual Energy Outlook 2014. U.S. Energy Information Administration, 1 Apr. 2014. Web. 18 Oct. 2014.
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