An investment analysis of Blue Scope Steel Limited

This company is a major steel company in Australia and New Zealand supplied by your products and building construction Manufacturing automotive and packaging industries. The company operates in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific and owns 50% of North Star steel which is a joint venture in United States.  the company has 70 to 80% of its market share if it still products in Australia and New Zealand. The company's main flat product production facilities low-cost pork and the steelworks which has an annual production capacity of over 5,000,000 tonnes. The strategies to grow shareholder value by reinvigorating the Australian and New Zealand domestic businesses, improving the Asian and North American businesses leveraging the company's pre-engineered building capabilities, in particular in Asia.  the company was at one point a part of BHP, but was sold by the company in an attempt to make these parts of its operations more efficient and reflecting a conviction of the management of parent company at the time that it was in the interests of shareholders not to be involved in a business which is not considered BHP's core business.
The key personnel of the company GT crash a use the chairman of the board, Mr P O'Malley is the Chief Executive Ofc and the secretary is Mr M Barron with the auditors been Ernst & Young. The company is based at 120: Street Melbourne Victoria was posted 3000. The price to earnings ratio of the company is currently 41.05 and is the last years percentage return was -6.25% the year before that the operating revenue of the company was $10 billion and a net profit after tax was $56 million the return on assets of the company was 1.7% and 1% return on equity in the last recorded financial year. The share price history of the company reflects a general trend in line with the global financial crisis however before the global financial crisis the company was outperforming the Essex or is it now appears to be underperforming in comparison.  Barclays global investors Australia Limited has 65 million shares in the company and is therefore one of its major shareholders. Its current dividend yield is 1.7%. The investment style associated with the company is Conservative and a share price was $2.94 with 1,823,000 shares on issue.