UNIQA INSURANCE GROUP AG

Company Analysis - *UNIQA INSURANCE GROUP AG* Your task is to pick an Austrian company which is listed at the Austrian Traded Index ATX https://www.wienerborse.at/en/market-data/shares-others/primemarket/?c1087-sort=diff and make a company valuation Therefore, the following needs to be done: • Decide for one Austrian listed company, I choose UNIQA INSURANCE GROUP AG • Find the latest annual report or (2021) on the company website and find additional information from other sources (yahoo, Bloomberg etc) --o First part; describe the company ▪ Strategy and History ▪ Past M&A (M&A History, who did they acquire or merge with and why) ▪ USP (what products and/or services do they offer) ▪ Industry and competition (biggest rivals) ▪ ... + whatever you feel is necessary in order to have a complete picture of your company o Second part; Was your company affected by coronavirus pandemic? • Why? How? And what do they do against it? • Was there a drop/rise in the share price? o Compare their recent share price with the share price at the end of 2019, today and at the end of March 2020 o Was there a significant movement and can you explain why there was a certain movement in the share price o Interpret your findings • Calculate the market capitalization for the end of 2019 end of March 2020 and now (use the links on moodle “shares outstanding and yahoo finance) o Interpret your results • Do you find any additional information on how the company will “survive” or benefit from the ongoing economic crisis? o What do you suggest to the CEO he should do? o Third part Company Valuation ▪ Use last Annual Report to obtain your figures • EBITDA • EBIT • Total cash + cash equivalents • Total amount of debt (total liabilities) • Get multiples form the “vebitdaEurope” uploaded o Select the appropriate industry! • Calculate the Enterprise Value using the EV/EBITDA EBITDA or EBIT X Multiple =Enterprise Value -net debt =Equity Value • Calculate the Enterprise Value using the EV/EBIT o and interpret your results o find a competitor in the same industry, value the competitor also with multiples, and review the company value results o Conclusion (4th part) of your company analysis: ▪ What do you think about the performance in 2022 compared to the years before (last 3 years)? ▪ Where do you see the company in the future? ▪ What do you recommend the company to do in order to improve their busines after Corona? ▪ Is there anything else you want to add? Format for final submission is .pdf – compute your results in excel and use a professional format for your submission. Try to make the document appealing and professional. It would be great if you could also indicate your sources of information in a way that I do not need to open too many files and that I can see right away where your numbers come from. In general, not more than 4 pages for your company analysis, but of course if you have more to tell one or two pages more are no problem. If you want to have a covering page, that is fine for me but not a necessity. Please do not copy whole sentences or paragraphs from your sources. please make sure to not plagiarize the paper will be handed through Turnitin! Please include screenshots in a word file from your excel calculations, and include the excel file you calculated everything in. I will upload the necessary data required to be used. the rest is instructed in the instruction where to get from.