Magna International Inc. (NYSE:MGA) is a global automotive supplier with 320 manufacturing centres and sales in 30 countries. The company offers products in body, exterior, chassis, powertrain, seats, electronics, vision, closures, roof systems, engineering service and contract manufacturing. This report is the financial analysis of MGA compared with the industry competitors Continental AG (ETR:CON) and Denso Corp. (DEN) (TYO:6902). MGA…
This report analyses the financial strength and weakness from Magna International Inc. (Magna) compared with the industry and some of its competitors. This report is based on financial information from Magna, Continental and Denso. Bosch is excluded because it is not a public company. Magna’s financial performance is excellent, the highest in the industry, reflected by a solid return on…
This essay discusses how technologies affect the equilibrium in the product markets taking a microeconomic and macroeconomic approach. It focuses in the automotive sector, a mature industry, with extensive economy of scales, capital intensive and oligopoly competition but with some trend to perfect competition. Two kind of technologies are discussed: Technology that impacts the supply curve. It is considered technologies…
The goal of the article “Organizational Ethics, Individual Ethics, and Ethical Intentions in International Decision-Making” from Elango, et al. (2010) is to “test the relationship between Individual Ethics (IE) and Organizational Ethics (OE) on the intention to behave ethically by respondents (Ethical Intention or EI)” in international decision-making environments. This is the business research question although is not explicitly highlighted.…
