Successful and Unsuccessful Companies in the Frequent Consumer Products Sector Listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange: A Classification Using Multiple Discriminant Analysis

The objective of this article is to determine the financial reasons that discriminate the companies, with a high and low financial performance, of the sector of frequent consumption products that are quoted in the Mexican Stock Market. For this, the financial statements of 16 companies were compiled...

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Authors: Mejia Ramirez, Raul, Echenique García, José Antonio, Villegas Hernández, Eduardo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:México
Institution:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA
Repository:Denarius
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:denarius.izt.uam.mx:article/451
Online Access:https://denarius.izt.uam.mx/index.php/denarius/article/view/451
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Financial performance
cluster analysis
discriminant analysis
financial reasons
Desempeño financiero
análisis clúster
análisis discriminante
razones financieras
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Summary:The objective of this article is to determine the financial reasons that discriminate the companies, with a high and low financial performance, of the sector of frequent consumption products that are quoted in the Mexican Stock Market. For this, the financial statements of 16 companies were compiled from 2001 to 2017 on a quarterly basis, with which variables were calculated that include financial ratios of liquidity, indebtedness, leverage, RION, INVESTRAT. For the methodological part, an objective classification based on the cluster analysis is first proposed, and then through the discriminant analysis, concluding that there are 10 financial reasons out of 37 considered in this study, which more contribute to discrimination, being: Current money, Acid test, Leverage, Times that the exchange loss is paid, Operating cash interest, Cash operating at foreign exchange loss, Collection days, Rotation of assets, Net profit margin and Return on equity.