Base metals, a base for stock prices
(2010)Department of Economics
- Abstract
- In this thesis we investigate three base metals’ price changes relationship with metals and mining companies’ stock return. A two-stage regression method is used with copper, nickel and zinc for eighteen companies. For each company we first run a multiple regression analysis with the three metals’ price changes as variables to create beta values. Thereafter a regression on each metal beta is conducted with company specific and non-company specific variables. A conclusion of the thesis is that copper is the driving factor for the metals and mining industry stock returns. In general, the beta values are more dependent on market indicators rather than on company specific indicators. However, financial key ratios seem to influence the beta... (More)
- In this thesis we investigate three base metals’ price changes relationship with metals and mining companies’ stock return. A two-stage regression method is used with copper, nickel and zinc for eighteen companies. For each company we first run a multiple regression analysis with the three metals’ price changes as variables to create beta values. Thereafter a regression on each metal beta is conducted with company specific and non-company specific variables. A conclusion of the thesis is that copper is the driving factor for the metals and mining industry stock returns. In general, the beta values are more dependent on market indicators rather than on company specific indicators. However, financial key ratios seem to influence the beta values. (Less)
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- author
- Kärrlander, Erik
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2010
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Mining, multiple regression, stock return, metal, Economics, econometrics, economic theory, economic systems, economic policy, Nationalekonomi, ekonometri, ekonomisk teori, ekonomiska system, ekonomisk politik
- language
- English
- id
- 1552183
- date added to LUP
- 2010-02-02 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2010-08-03 10:53:02
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abstract = {{In this thesis we investigate three base metals’ price changes relationship with metals and mining companies’ stock return. A two-stage regression method is used with copper, nickel and zinc for eighteen companies. For each company we first run a multiple regression analysis with the three metals’ price changes as variables to create beta values. Thereafter a regression on each metal beta is conducted with company specific and non-company specific variables. A conclusion of the thesis is that copper is the driving factor for the metals and mining industry stock returns. In general, the beta values are more dependent on market indicators rather than on company specific indicators. However, financial key ratios seem to influence the beta values.}},
author = {{Kärrlander, Erik}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Base metals, a base for stock prices}},
year = {{2010}},
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