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Introduction
Ceramic Industry
Dhaka Stock
Cement Industry
Exchange Index
IT Industry
Value Weighted Index
• A capitalization-weighted index is a type of market index with individual components that are
weighted according to their total market capitalization. Also known as Value Weighted
Index.
• larger components carry higher percentage weightings, while the smaller components in the
index have lower weights.
• Most of the indexes that are used nowadays are Cap-weighted index.
• Example of Cap-weighted index: The Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500 Index, the Nasdaq
Composite Index, the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index, the Hang Seng Index and the MSCI
EAFE Index.
• In a cap-weighted index, large price moves in the largest components can have a dramatic
effect on the value of the index.
• Many things Cap-weighted index distorts the perception about market as it over weighs the
bigger companies.
• But bigger companies have bigger shareholder base and thus it is considered to be more
relevant.
DSEX Index
• The cement sector accounted for 3.2 percent of the day's total turnover on
the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) of Tk 4.35 billion in the end of September,
2015.
Cement • Overall price earning (PE) ratio stood at 35.38.
Industry • The cement sector accounted for 6.90 percent of the DSE's total market
capitalization of Tk 3,364 billion as on the end of September, 2015.
• The listed cement companies witnessed mixed trend in their profits in the
first half in 2015, compared to the same period last year as businesses
faced disruption due to political turmoil in the first quarter.
Company Overview
Industry tableware (250 million pieces), tiles (120 million square meters) and sanitar
ware (7.5 million pieces).
• Existing giants like Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, etc. are making massive
IT Industry investments in Asian countries to utilize the cost advantage.
σ 𝐏𝐭 𝐐𝐭
𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐱 𝐭 = × 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐱 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞
σ 𝐏𝐛 𝐐𝐛
𝑃𝑡 = ending prices for stocks on day t
• From 1st Jan to 30th October, there hasn’t been much changes shown in the performance of
the cement industry index.
• The cement industry index went the highest at the beginning of the year 2018 (in 2 nd Jan the
index went up to 100.75).
• After that it always underperformed in comparison with the market and it performed better
at 3 points in this time period.
• But the industry started to show huge decline at the end of our research period and at the
end October the index has fallen to 75.21991, almost 25% fall in the index.
Findings & Analysis
• The ceramic industry’s has been preforming very inconsistently during the research time
period.
• For the first two months it performed in alignment with the market and seemed like
outperforming the market.
• However, when it seemed like it was going to outperform, the index fell and continued to
perform underneath the DSEX index for the next 4 months.
• At the end of June it started outperforming the market and reached its highest peak on July
22nd (Index 106.732.
• After the peak at June, ceramic industry performed above the DSEX index but inconsistently.
Findings & Analysis
• But at the end of 6 months it has significantly outperformed the DSEX index
and reached its peak at the time period. But at the end it declined and seemed
to have another peak after October
Findings & Analysis