Sunday, 10 February 2013

Practical Merits from Capital Market and Associated Issues


 
Capital market is generally one of the great channels for general public, company or government to raise finance; where inside this market, financial securities such as bond and stock are traded to be sold and bought by those potential parties around the world. That is why range of stock exchanges (e.g. London Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange) is existed to satisfy consumers mentioned. However, I ever realized that how they take advantages from capital market may be different even though mainly it is to raise finance. Seeing general public, they will definitely only rely on capital market to provide them with dividend through investment that they made personally. Business typically use capital market to have benefits such as corporate ‘advertisement’ and business solvency, finally government sometimes emphasize on economic growth instead of only raising capital for environment.
 
When we see company like Base Resources whom act as the Australian iron ore company, they are currently became newcomer in London Stock Exchange (reported on January 28/2013) - seeking for groups particularly UK societies to help them raising capital internationally for their Kwale Project in East Africa concisely saying. In this case I consider that capital market then help them to increase their publicity through announcement and promotion from internal member as well as opening access or opportunities for investors to put interests in the company and the project.
 
Yet, the question here is “Will they continue to enjoy the practical merits from capital market?” In terms of this, I may just say perhaps. Why? Because entering capital market does not really mean users take its practical merits afterwards. People would likely to argue as unpredictable conditions always happen and anything will be back to their selves. As to consider, capital market has wavy nature following some factors such as value of each company and how they handle hovering information in public zone (we may reflect this in stock market efficiency philosophy). Internal resources from Base Resources are now grinding capital to give best possible output for investors; nonetheless the imperative issue that I want to say will be the share price should be above the given line ‘today’. This could be by approach commencing the decent production initiation of which thus let the share price can be higher than before. Based on my research, this company has targeted that their production will begin in the second half of 2013, which is imminent.

In my perspective, Base Resources will be continuously receiving benefit from capital market as long as they are able to cope with its entire business performance and share price movements. Rationally thinking, if they done so, in addition to the increase in status, potential investors will be attracted to invest in it since it will give personal advantages to them; hence more and more capital can be received. Likewise this will enable general public and government who bought its shares with low price to sell it with higher price (or either it can be maintained if they feel the price will be higher later). Since it turned out to be high, these investors will become pleased as there are chances to obtain earnings.

The endorsement in terms of the practical merits for them is also in the form of dividend payments. The greater the company’s performance, the more profitable they will be and dividend payment could be higher. Beside Base Resources’ point of view, therefore this indicates that both general public and government in this case should be picky in choosing which company to be invested in. Investigation of financial performance from profitability, liquidity, investor analysis, company’s background, including benchmarking may help them to grab advantages from capital market. This concludes that capital market indeed take role to be financial intermediary, but the incentives itself mostly realized and taken by the users. Be aware that not only seeing people using capital market to gamble for uncertain things however places to have good gambling (range of companies listed in stock exchanges)and how they gamble affect the most!

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