Financial Analysis on AIR PRODUCTS and CHEMICALS’s Annual Report
1. Introduction
In this financial analysis on AIR PRODUCTS and CHEMICALS, it includes the following main parts:
- Company background: This part will help readers understand about the company profile, business segment, and other critical snapshots about the company and its strategic direction
- Financial analysis: This part will analyze the company’s financial report to evaluate its financial performance in the fiscal year 2007.
- Opinions of the company’s present conditions
- Opinions of what the company should do in the future
2. Company background
Air products and Chemical Inc was founded by the late Leonard P. Pool in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan. Air Products (NYSE:APD) main business units are:
- Merchant Gases: supplying a wide variety of industrial and medical customers with industrial , certain medical and specialty gases
- Tonnage Gas, Equipment and Energy: supplying the petroleum refining, chemical and metallurgical industries with industrial gases from large on-site facilities or pipeline systems (Tonnage Gas) and cryogenic and gas processing equipment and technologies for future energy markets (Equipment and Energy)
- Electronics and Performance Materials: supplying the silicon and compound semiconductor, display and photovoltaic device markets with specialty and tonnage gases, chemicals, services and equipment; and the coatings, inks, adhesives, civil engineering, personal care and other industries with performance chemical solutions.
- Healthcare: supplying at-home patients with respiratory therapies, home medical equipment and infusion serv ...