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Title: Analying finance information of Vietnam Airline and Vietjet Air from 2015-2017
Length: 26 pages Due date: 31 Dec 2018 Date submitted: 31 Dec 2018
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1
2.2 Profitability...................................................................................................... 6
3 Recommendation ................................................................................................... 18
Figure 1: The earnings per share of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air .......................... 2
Figure 2: The dividend per share of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ......................... 3
Figure 4: Return on Equity Ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ......................... 6
Figure 7: Gross profit margin, Operation profit margin and Net profit margin ratios of
Figure 9: Asset turnover ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ............................ 10
Figure 11: Days debtors of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ..................................... 12
Figure 12: The current ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ............................... 13
Figure 13: The quick asset ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ......................... 14
Figure 14: The Debt to Equity ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ................... 15
Figure 15: The Debt ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ................................... 16
Figure 16: The Interest Servicing Ratios of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air ........... 17
1 Introduction
April 1993, Vietnam Airlines (VNA) was established as the country’s national
flag carrier. On 27 May 1995, Vietnam Airlines Corporation was born with the
gathering of 20 aviation enterprises and the airline itself as the core business. On 20
October 2002, Vietnam Airlines introduced the new logo of the Golden Lotus and
corporate identity that symbolized its dramatic progress towards becoming a world-
class airline.
(IOSA) certificate, a strict safety standard set by Aviation Quality Services (AQS),
official member, affirming its international standard. In June 2010, Vietnam Airlines
joined SkyTeam, the world’s second largest global airline alliance, affirming the
carrier’s new position on the global aviation map as the strategic partner of the
alliance in Southeast Asia region as well as its international standard services. In July
2016, Vietnam Airlines received a 4-Star Airline Certificate from Skytrax, the world’s
Vietjet Air (VJC) is an official IATA member with IOSA's (IATA Operational
corporate culture. This will be grasped thorough by every staff at Vietjet. Currently,
the airline operates a route network covering destinations nation-wide and more than
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China, Japan, Hong Kong and Myanmar. It is operating a fleet of A320s and A321s
with average age of 3.3 years old. For 5 years of taking off and serving our customers,
Vietjet has honored with 32 domestic awards and 9 significant international awards.
The carrier was awarded “Vietnam’s best place to work” in consecutive years and
“the Best Employer Brand Asia Awards 2016”. In addition to domestic and
international awards and recognition, the carrier also received the flag of emulation
from the Prime Minister for its excellent contribution to development of Vietnam
aviation industry.
2 Financial analysis
EPS
16000
14219
14000
12000
10000
8071 8319
8000
6000
4000
1685 1931
2000
213
0
2015 2016 2017
VNA VJC
Figure 1: The earnings per share of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air
from 2015 to 2017
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Earnings per share (EPS) is the net income per share. When EPS is high, it
gives us a signal that this share might have potential increase price in market stock in
The above graph reveals that the EPS of both companies increase through the
years from 2015 to 2017. It is undeniable that the earning per share of Vietjet Air is
always far higher than Vietnam Airlines. In details, in 2017, EPS of Vietjet was about
seven times higher compared to Vietnam Airlines, which means, Vietjet Air is using
the capital more effectively than Vietnam Airlines. Basing on this index may
investors prefer to buy the share of VNA rather than VJC, and apparently current
market price of VJC is much higher. In 2017, market price of VNA was 43,099VND
DPS
3000
2000
2500
2000
1500
1000
1000
600
500
0 0
0
2015 2016 2017
VNA VJC
Figure 2: The dividend per share of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air
from 2015 to 2017
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The dividend per share (DPS) reflects how much of the earning will be paid
back to investors. The higher DPS is, the more interest that investor will pay to the
share. According to the graph, DPS of both companies increased through period 2015
to 2017.
In the year 2015, both companies did not pay dividend to shareholders. From
October 2016. For Vietjet Air, all shareholders agreed to take all the earning to
increase equity for coming years, as at that time, the equity of Vietjet was still low
In 2016, Vietnam Airlines also did not pay dividend as it just started IPO for
some months. Meanwhile, Vietjet Air paid 1,000 VND of dividend for each share, at
the rate of 10% of original price. That amount of dividend was paid in May 2015,
In 2017, VJC paid 2,000 VND of dividend for each share, while that number of
VNA was only 600 VND. This was because the earning per share of VJC was much
higher than VNA (14,219 VND compared to 1,931 VND). It was to say that Vietjet
air’s share attract more investors in secondary market as it brought about more benefit
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2.1.3 Price Earning Ratio (PER)
PER of 2017
25
22.32
20
15
13.06
10
0
VNA VJC
As Vietjet Air first listed its shares on Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange
(HOSE) and issued largest IPO in Feb 2017, with market capitalization having tripled
since then to reach 3.6 billion USD. For Vietnam Airlines, the time for IPO was in
January 2017, that was why in 2015 and 2016, the PER ratio was not available for
both companies.
In 2017, the PER of Vietnam Airlines was about 1.6 times higher than Vietjet
Air’s. The reason behind was, EPS of Vietnam Airlines was too low. The market
price of Vietnam Airlines in that year was 43,099 VND, while that number for Vietjet
Air was 4.3 times higher (189,200 VND). However, the EPS of Vietjet Air was about
seven times higher. This means for Vietnam Airlines’ shares, investors were over
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evaluating its value, because they believed that Vietnam Airlines had more stable and
long-term development.
2.2 Profitability
Return on Equity ratio is one the most important ratios which expresses the
current situation about financial performance of the company. ROE shows how much
profit that the investors can get through their investment to the company. The
company who has high number of ROE presents the ability to use investors’ equity
more effectively. It means that the company knows how to balance the equity and
ROE
60% 54%
51%
48%
50%
40%
30%
20% 14%
13%
10%
3%
0%
2015 2016 2017
VNA VJC
Airline and Vietjet Air over a period of three years from 2015. Overall, the ROE
ratios in Vietjet Air decreased slowly from 54% to 48%, while it increased a little bit
in Vietnam Airline from 3% to 14%. However, the ROE ratio in Vietjet Air was
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always at high level, it means that Vietjet Air was more attractive to investors than
Vietnam Airline.
Three factors which impact to ROE are asset turnover, profit margin and
leverage ratios. In this part, the writers will focus on the profit margin. Asset turnover
First of all, looking at the gross profit margin, the trend in changing fuel price
impacts directly to cost of good sales (COGS), which made gross profit go down
when price increases. Below chart shows ratio which is calculated by the ratio
between COGS and revenue of each company from 2015 to 2017. Both companies
COGS on revenue
90.00% 89.37%
89.00%
86.00% VNA
84.00%
83.00%
82.00%
2015 2016 2017
gross profit deduct SG&A (Selling in general and Administration). So company who
has the lower cost in SG&A will have the higher ratio of Operation profit margin.
Figures 6 shows the lower ratio of SG&A cost on revenue in each year of Vietjet Air
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than Vietnam Airline. The management team of Vietjet Air had successful in
SG&A on revenue
12.00%
6.00% VNA
VJC
4.00%
2.63% 2.46%
1.90%
2.00%
0.00%
2015 2016 2017
Finally, following net profit margin, net profit is the amount of operation
profit after deducting all tax and expenses. From the graph 7 below, the Gross profit
margin ratio of Vietnam Airline were always higher than Vietjet Air in 2015 and
2016, but the operation profit margin and net profit margin of Vietjet Air are higher
than Vietnam Airlines. In 2017, the ratio of gross profit margin on Vietnam Airline
was less than Vietjet Air and with the higher cost of COGS and SG&A, the operation
and net profit margin ratios were still lower than Vietjet Air. It presented that Vietjet
Air was well-controlling their COGS as well as SG&A, that made them more
attractive to investors.
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Gross profit margin, Operation profit margin and Net profit margin ratios
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15% 16%
16%
13% 13% 13% 13%
14% 12%
12% 11%
9%
10% 8%
8% 7% 6%
6% 6%
6%
3% 3% 3%
4%
2% 1%
0%
2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017
Gross profit margin Operation profit margin Net profit margin
VNA VJC
Figure 7: Gross profit margin, Operation profit margin and Net profit margin
ratios of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air from 2015 to 2017
ROA
25%
21%
20%
16%
15% 13%
VNA
10% VJC
4% 5%
5%
2%
0%
2015 2016 2017
The company who has high ratio of ROA is showed how well-managing it is. This is
one of important ratio for investors to decide how much they can invest into the
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company, because of basing on ROA, they are well-known the liquidation from their
The graph above provides information about ROA ratios of Vietnam Airline
and Vietjet Air from 2015 to 2017. Overall, the ROA of Vietjet Air was always high
and higher than Vietnam Airline. For Vietjet Air, this was a successful in
management and their strategies when buying and releasing aircraft, which leaded less
assets but higher revenue. This created more attractive from investors to the
company.
2.3 Efficiency
The graph on below compares how effective Vietnam Airline and Vietjet Air
utilize their assets to generate revenue, between the years 2015 and 2017. By using
asset turnover ratio, investors can get an idea of how a company is managed and uses
2.01
2.00
1.72
1.64
1.50
VNA
1.00 0.90 VJC
0.76
0.61
0.50
0.00
2015 2016 2017
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Overall, this financial ratio of Vietjet Air is always higher than Vietnam
Airline within three years. By following sale and leaseback, total asset of Vietjet Air
is much lower than Vietnam Airline. Besides, this model helps Vietjet Air expand
fleets without investing too much capital. Thanks to the strong growth of fleet, Vietjet
promoted more sales. This results confirmed that the Vietjet Air used sale and
leaseback strategy effectively to do rapid success, growth and make up these financial
However, for Vietnam Airline, asset turnover ratio was improved, rising
steadily from 0.61 times in 2015 to 0.9 times in 2017. Meanwhile, for Vietjet Air,
there was a downward trend in asset turnover ratio, from 2.01 times in 2015 to 1.64
times in 2017. This is because Vietjet Air had average total asset which rose
significantly 2.6 times, from 9860 billions in 2015 to 25860 billions in 2017 while
2017. For Vietnam Airline, company has had slight increase in numbers, with the rate
of growth in average total asset is 1.2 times while revenue increased 1.69 times, from
Days inventory
18 16 16
16 14
14
12
10 VNA
8
VJC
6
4 3 2 2
2
0
2015 2016 2017
Figure 10: Day inventory of Vietnam Airline and Vietjet Air from 2015 to 2017
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The chart gives data about days inventory for Vietjet Air and Vietnam Airline
from 2015 to 2017. It can be seen that Vietjet Air had much lower rate. The ratio of
Vietnam Airline has fluctuated around 16% for three years while the figure for
another one experienced a decline over period. Starting at 3% during the first year of
the period, the percentage of days inventory in Vietjet Air dropped to about 2%
during next two years. Most factors to record in inventory are oil, fuel,….
Days debtors
25 23
20
17
16 16
15 14
VNA
10 VJC
6
5
0
2015 2016 2017
Figure 11: Days debtors of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air from 2015 to 2017
Days debtors measures average number of days that it takes a customer to pay
the company for sales. Looking at the chart in more detail, in 2015, Vietnam Airlines
had 23 days to receive payment after sale, which was significantly higher than the
figure for Vietjet Air, at only 6 days. Over the following two years, the number of
Vietnam Airlines decreased to reach a peak of about 16 days. By contrast, there was
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2.4 Liquidity
Current ratio
1.40 1.27
1.20
0.98 0.96
1.00
0.76
0.80 0.69
0.65 VNA
0.60 VJC
0.40
0.20
0.00
2015 2016 2017
Figure 12: The current ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air
from 2015 to 2017
The bar chart indicates the current ratio of Viet Nam Airlines and VietJet Air
from 2015 to 2017. This ratio is mainly used to give an idea of the company's ability
to pay back its short-term liabilities with its current asset. The higher the current ratio,
the more capable the company is of paying its. A current ratio of 1.0 or greater is an
indication that the company is well position to cover its short-term liabilities. It
indicates that the current ratio of Vietjet Air has been standing at highest level in 2017
and higher than the benchmark compare to Vietnam Airlines. In three years, Vietjet
Air had rapid growth. Hence the actual current assets of the company was increasing
nearly triple and current liabilities was almost double. This resulted that it could be
believed in that company has a small liquidity risk. Whereas, both current asset and
obvious that Vietnam Airlines develop steadily. However, liquidity risk of this firm
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2.4.2 The quick asset ratio
0.80
0.63 0.66 VNA
0.60 0.54
VJC
0.40
0.20
-
2015 2016 2017
Figure 13: The quick asset ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air
from 2015 to 2017
This chart presents the quick asset ratio for the period of three years, from
2015 to 2017. As known, the quick asset ratio is more conservative than the current
ratio because it excludes inventories from current assets and inventories generally
take time to be converted into cash. For the given years, quick asset ratio of VJC is
always higher than the VNA. The quick asset ratio of VJC has a slight increase in this
According to the standard index, the minimum suggested number for current
ratio and quick ratio are 1.5 and 0.8. It can be concluded that Vietjet Air is in the safe
zone and is more ideal with the ratio numbers are all over the suggested standard.
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2.5 Capital structure
100%
0%
2015 2016 2017
VNA VJC
Figure 14: The Debt to Equity ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air
from 2015 to 2017
The debt to equity ratio is a financial, liquidity ratio that compares a
company’s total debt to total equity. The debt to equity ratio shows the percentage of
company financing that comes from creditors and investors. A higher debt to equity
ratio indicates that more creditor financing (bank loans) is used than investor
financing (shareholders). In the fiscal years 2015, 2016 and 2017, VNA’s debt-to-
equity ratio was 634%, 494% and 408%, respectively. This ratio of VNA is high, a lot
of debt is used to finance growth. The more financial leverage, the more risky.
However, this ratio tends to decrease. It’s more better if Vietnam Airlines control the
debt to equity ratio to decrease in competitive aviation market in future. In the fiscal
years 2015, 2016 and 2017, Vietjet Air’s debt-to-equity ratio was 461%, 324% and
199%, respectively. This figures are also quite high for debt to equity ratio. However,
to compare with VNA, value of this ratio is still lower. We can see that Vietjet Air
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control the percentage of debt to equity is better than Vietnam Airlines. And this ratio
Debt ratio and equity show the same meaning as debt to equity ratio.
Debt ratio
100%
90% 86% 83%
80% 80%
70% 82%
76% 67%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2015 2016 2017
VNA VJC
Figure 15: The Debt ratio of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air from 2015 to 2017
The interest coverage ratio is a debt ratio and profitability ratio used to
determine how easily a company can pay interest on its outstanding debt. The interest
coverage ratio may be calculated by dividing a company's earnings before interest and
taxes (EBIT) during a given period by the company's interest payments due within
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Interest Servicing Ratios
25.00
23.32
20.00
15.96
15.00
10.01
10.00
5.00 2.90
3.02
1.82
-
2015 2016 2017
VNA VJC
Figure 16: The Interest Servicing Ratios of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air
from 2015 to 2017
Over the last three fiscal years, Vietnam Airlines have increased the interest
servicing ratios from 1.82 to 3.02. These figure is quite low for this ratio, it is not
good for Vietnam Airlines in covering Interest rates. Vietjet Air have good interest
servicing ratios, higher many time than Vietnam Airlines. In the fiscal years 2015,
2016 and 2017, VJC’s interest servicing ratios was 10.01, 15.96 and 23.32. This ratio
is increasing strongly from 2015 to 2017. This show that Vietjet Air’s ability to meet
In summary, Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air have high debt to equity ratios,
especially Vietnam Airlines. Thus, it is essential to control and reduce the rate of debt
in capital structure to avoid risk in the competitive, growth airline market in the
future.
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3 Recommendation
The major cost in the airlines industry is the cost of renting (or buying)
aircraft. Hence the main activity focuses on how to turn a plane around as quickly as
possible daily, called as planer turnaround times. For Vietjet Air – low-cost brand,
they can charge a high check-in baggage fee. As we know, Vietjet Air’s customer is
people who need only safe flight without extra services such as: foods, baggage
inclusive. If Vietjet Air increase baggage fee, our customer still accept and do not do
check-in baggage. This makes baggage loading time and luggage taking down time
match the time of going up and down for guests, leading to optimize waiting and
fuel cost. The fuel cost increased by 37.5% in 2017, which lead to the fact that the
rate of growth was lower than the rate of cost increase. Meanwhile, Vietjet Air used
Airbus planes, with the space-utilized design, can help to save 3.5% - 4% fuel
As we know, Vietjet Air tend to low-cost brand. They cut all extra services
such as: food, drink, baggage inclusive. Vietjet Air focuses on how to optimize plane
turnaround time because they apply totally sale and leaseback model. This model
helps firm generate an immediate profit. Vietnam Airline can apply a part –not totally
of this model to have a better ratios in statement and attract investors. By create new
service same as Vietjet Air for this customer’s pattern, Vietnam Airlines can add in
more auxiliary activities like VJC. For instance, choosing seat service, meal, extra
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luggage….. These activities not even require very low variable cost, but also bring
back a lot of income for airlines service. Currently, Vietnam Airlines’ flight ticket
already includes those fees, that’s why it is always higher than a ticket flight of
Vietjet, which is less attractive to customers, and bring back less revenue to VNA.
On the other hand, Vietjet Air has ambition to expand international’s airline
which Vietnam Airline did well. The sale and leaseback model may be challenge for
Vietjet Air if company would like to do that. This requires Vietjet Air should learn
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APPENDIX
1 Market Performance
2 Profitability
VNA VJC
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Sales revenue 49,145,973,012,992 70,088,973,851,322 82,950,970,495,273 19,845,478,919,852 27,532,073,275,313 42,302,572,682,618
3 Efficiency
VNA VJC
2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017
Asset Turnover ratio 0.61 0.76 0.90 2.01 1.72 1.64
Days debtors 23 17 16 6 16 14
4 Liquidity
VNA VJC
2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017
Current ratio 0.69 0.76 0.65 0.98 0.96 1.27
Quick asset ratio 0.63 0.66 0.54 0.95 0.95 1.25
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5 Capital Structure
VNA VJC
2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017
Debt to Equity ratio 634% 494% 408% 461% 324% 199%
Liabilities 77,039,282,058,727 80,235,683,786,129 71,117,566,152,055 9,897,423,484,873 15,328,679,347,088 21,064,130,723,313
Equity 12,142,391,521,300 16,244,643,919,692 17,432,919,723,530 2,147,440,280,350 4,734,022,177,639 10,594,134,518,111
Debt ratio 86% 83% 80% 82% 76% 67%
Liabilities 77,039,282,058,727 80,235,683,786,129 71,117,566,152,055 9,897,423,484,873 15,328,679,347,088 21,064,130,723,313
Asset 89,181,673,580,027 96,480,327,705,821 88,550,485,875,585 12,044,863,765,223 20,062,701,524,727 31,658,265,241,424
Interest Servicing Ratio 1.82 2.90 3.02 10.01 15.96 23.32
EBIT 1,607,838,820,739 3,966,009,465,868 4,712,878,111,556 1,298,181,802,124 2,883,878,804,506 5,540,236,305,974
Net Finance expense 882,335,756,350 1,365,427,620,435 1,558,118,623,739 129,699,274,892 180,732,739,883 237,597,428,875
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