Research On Financing And Investment Of Listed Transportation Companies

On one side, the success or failure in financing and investment is extremely important to a corporation's survival and development. On the other hand, listed companies use the capital from stock market to build new assets, deal with merger & acquisition or improve financing status, based on which stock market can well develop. Therefore, under current situation, researching on financing and investment of listed companies has realistic meanings.Transportation is a pillar industry of national economics. Listed companies in this industry have financing much money from stock market these years. This paper aims at studying listed transportation companies' direction of investment, their financing efficiency and investment efficiency, how to further standardize their behavior on financing and investment and so on.The research methods: such as combining theory and facts, combining qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, combining static analysis and dynamic analysis. This paper contacts practice with theory, and uses plenty of data to analyze usual law and representative cases about listed transportation companies. It puts forward some measures that can heighten efficiencies of both listed companies and financing market.The first chapter simply introduces the aims and significance of choosing this subject- the study objects and topic - study methods and viewpoints. The second chapter presents some theories on financing and investment. The third chapter start from subdivision of transportation industry, analyzes business characters and development trends of different sub-industry, simply illuminates listed transportation companies' financing modes and financing scale, analyzes using of money that listed transportation companies collected from stock market. The forth chapter study investment characters of listed transportation companies these years. 94 percent of capital from stock market was invested in main business. Listed companies choose investing objects more carefully than before. But there is too much business with parent company or affiliate companies in course of acquisition. Some listed companies' profitability clearly declines afteracquisition business with parent company. The fifth chapter study investment efficiencies and financing efficiencies in listed transportation companies. On the whole, the financing and investment in listed companies had constructed fine circles, so they can accumulate and develop by themselves. But some listed companies' profitability clearly descended after investment, it shows irrational financing and improper feasibility analyses still exist in some listed companies. Financing mode and strategy in some listed companies are unsuitable. Much capital left unused, which is ubiquitous and serious. The sixth chapter gives in-depth analyses about irrational financing, control by principal shareholders and improper feasibility analyses. Combining the characters of capital structure, financing and investment, it gives some advice.Listed transportation companies should advance attitudes towards stock market, financing and investment, improve on inner governance, carefully choose financing mode and investment objects, strengthen management of capital. Likewise, national supervisory institutions should reinforce regulations of stock market. In this way, financing and investment in listed companies will just be standardized further and more efficient.