An empirical study of factor analysis on M & A performance of listed companies of Chinese pharmaceutical industry



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Available online www.jocpr.com Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2014, 6(4):963-968 Research Article ISSN : 0975-7384 CODEN(USA) : JCPRC5 An empirical study of factor analysis on M & A performance of listed companies of Chinese pharmaceutical industry Hu Ming 1, Shen Juqin 1 and ChengLu 2 1 School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing, P. R. China 2 School of Business, Anhui University, Hefei, P. R. China ABSTRACT The article selects 13 financial indicators of listed companies to build the M&A performance of pharmaceutical industry evaluation system, and analyzes38 Chinese listed companies in the pharmaceutical industry, uses factor analysis analyze financial data samples from 2007 to 2012,extracts four common factors, establishes evaluation model of M&A performance, gets a composite score of M&A performance, and compares the M&A performance score results, then, judging from the result of the six years of M&A performance to show that the trend towards rising. According to the results of the factor analysis, we propose some politic recommendations based on the microscopic aspects for the M&A in pharmaceutical industry and hope to promote the development of the pharmaceutical companies healthily and orderly. Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; actor Analysis; M&A; Performance INTRODUCTION The growth rate of the pace of development of Chinese pharmaceutical industry is much faster than the international pharmaceutical industry s. In recent years, pharmaceutical industry is one of the fastest growing industries in China. [1] There is a positive correlation between the GDP and the total output value of pharmaceutical industry, the total output value of pharmaceutical industry occupy GDP a larger proportion and it is rising year by year (igure 1),Gross industrial production for the pharmaceutical industry contribute GDP a lot, it plays an important role in national economy of China. "The 12th ive-year Plan" predicts that we can still maintain a20%averagegrowth rate of industrial output value of the pharmaceutical industry to over 3 trillions in 2015. Development of the pharmaceutical industry in relation to the national economy. April 7, 2009, "the recent focus on the implementation of health system reform program (2009-2011)"determine the period of medical reform plan for three years. In the planning process, more and more companies choose the path of mergers and acquisitions. In 2006, there are only 6merger cases of domestic pharmaceutical industry, and the total acquisitions value is 4.6356billion U.S. dollars. [2] acing to the 2012 medical reform policy, the M & A activity in pharmaceutical industry began more rapid than the previous. However, there are 67 domestic companies choose mergers and acquisitions in 2012, the total value of M & A reached 16.9554million U. S. dollars. And whether these activities be brought to further improvement of business performance or not, the problem attracted the attention of many scholars. Therefore, this article has great practical significance. [3] 963

igure 1 gross industrial production of pharmaceutical industry and GDP gross industrial production of Pharmaceutical industry/million RMB 19000 17000 15000 13000 11000 9000 7000 5000 gross industrial production of Pharmaceutical industry 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year 3.6 3.4 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.2 Possession of GDP/%. EXPERIMENTAL SECTION 1.1 Basic assumption (1) To obtain true and reliable financial indicators; (2)This article assumes that the effects of mergers and acquisition scan be manifested in two years and the pre-merger corporate performance is stable, so using the financial date of 2007,2008 and 2009 from the M&A companies as samples, selects the data the year before the M&A(Y ), the year of M&A(Y ), the year after M&A(Y ) and two years after the merger(y );(3)Excludingthe affection of macro and micro factors, such as national policy, the industrial environment, activities of investment, the impact of management changes and so on. 1.2 Selection and sources of sample In this paper, we select companies out of 91 mergers and acquisitions of listed companiesfrom2008 to 2010 which issued by Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange. According to the following restrictions, we select financial data in the acquisition interval(2007-2010). irstly, the sample of mergers and acquisitions of listed companies has not been terminated listed so far; Secondly, excluding SP, ST and the companies of anomalies or incomplete data; Thirdly, choosing the largest M&A among several mergers and acquisitions. Taking these restricted conditions into consideration, finally we choose 38listed companies as the valid samples. In this paper, the data mainly from the GTA database, "China Securities News" and annual financial reports published by the sample listed companies. Table 1 Indicator system Aspect Operating capacity Solvency Profit ability Growth ability Indicato r code Indicator name Indicator calculation x 1 Inventory Turnover Cost of sales/average balance of inventories x 2 Total Assets Turnover Net sales revenue/average total assets x 3 Current Assets Turnover Sales revenue /average balance of current assets x 4 Asset-liability Ratio Total liabilities/total assets x 5 Equity Ratio Total liabilities/total equity x 6 Current Ratio Current Assets/ current Liabilities x 7 OPE Main business profit/net sales revenue x 8 Return on Total Assets Net profit /average total assets x 9 ROE Net profit /average net assets x 10 Ratio of Profits to Cost Total profit/total cost x 11 Total Assets Growth Rate Current total assets increased turnover/total assets at beginning of period x 12 Earnings per share growth rate Earnings per share growth/earnings per share of the previous period x 13 CROA The current main business profit growth/main business profit of the previous period 1.3 Indication system This article adopt the method of accounting indicators to conduct empirical research for M &A performance, this method is not simply to evaluate the related indicators, but to use these indicators perfectly.[5-6] According to the method we can obtain a new overall scores to reflect corporate performance. It is possible to reflect the company's 964

operating performance more comprehensively and objectively, it is not easy to be effected by the effectiveness of the capital market. The method of accounting indicators are selected thirteen major financial indicators from operating capacity, solvency, profitability and growth ability to reflect the performance of these four aspects of the enterprise (table 1). 1.4 An Empirical Study of M & A performance 1.4.1 Data Inspection During the analysis, we must try to find whether there is a correlation between the variables, if there is no correlation between each variable, then extracting the common factors has little meaning. SPSS software provides statistics and Barelett s RMO spherical test statistic to test whether the data is suitable for factor analysis, RMO statistic values that between 0 and 1 and it used to test the suitability of the correlation between variables. The larger the RMO value is, the better the results of factor analysis. Barelett s sphere statistic used to test whether the correlation matrix is the unit matrix, if the correlation coefficient matrix is the expectation, there might be no correlation between variables, it would not be suitable for factor analysis. On the contrary, it is suitable for factor analysis. When the original hypothesis is established, then Barelett s statistics obey approximate chi-square distribution. If the significance level is sig.<0.05, then you can reject the Original hypothesis, and consider that the data is suitable for factor analysis. rom the under table, it can be seen that the significant level of overall data before and after the merger is 0.000<0.05, meanwhile the RMO is 0.627. It indicating that the original variables are suitable for factor analysis and the result is relatively correct. Table 2 KMO and Bartlett's Test Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy..627 Approx. Chi-Square 322.621 Bartlett's Test of Sphericity df 78 Sig..000 1.4.2 The process of factor analysis Using statistical software such as SPSS to analyze 38 listed companies which conduct M&A from 2008 to 2010in the pharmaceutical industry, the analytical period including the year before M&A, the year of M&A, the year after M&A and two years after M&A. Using factor analysis to extract common factor, according to the general principles of determining the number of common factors, we select the number of the value of characteristic roots greater than 1 as the number of common factor.[7] By observing the under table, there are four common factors, the cumulative variance contribution rate of four common factors is 0.75345, explaining 75.345% of the total variance of the original variables, the original information lost few variables, therefore, selecting the first four common factors is more appropriate. Table 3 Total Variance Explained Component Initial Eigen values Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings Total % of Variance Cumulative % Total % of Variance Cumulative % 1 4.241 32.620 32.620 3.573 27.481 27.481 2 3.177 24.442 57.062 3.200 24.612 52.093 3 1.207 9.286 66.347 1.708 13.140 65.233 4 1.170 8.998 75.345 1.315 10.112 75.345 5.946 7.274 82.619 6.558 4.289 86.908 7.504 3.877 90.785 8.475 3.657 94.442 9.299 2.299 96.741 10.240 1.848 98.589 11.102.787 99.376 12.047.365 99.741 13.034.259 100.000 The cumulative variance contribution rate of the year of M&A, one year after M&A, two years after M&A are as follows: 76.13%, 78.29%, 74.33%, these numbers are all in line with requirements. Then, we can calculate the principal component scores. According to the value of the original factors and the factor 965

score coefficient matrix, it can be calculated each observables scores for each factor, thus we can further analyze the observations. [8]The rotated factor scores and results of the expression show in the under table. Table 4 Rotated Component Matrix a Component 1 2 3 4.421 -.257.121.737.852 -.052.268.294.781 -.186.140.319.759 -.225 -.158 -.268.853 -.107 -.116.065.605.177.447 -.017 -.361.809 -.086.065 -.053.892.256.028.290.855.260 -.016 -.341.799 -.040.064.209.261.745 -.182 -.109 -.018.816.209 -.029.337 -.042.649 Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis. Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization. a. Rotation converged in 7 iterations. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION We can acquire the following equations through the calculation of the above results, list them as follows : X = 0.421 x + 0.852 x + 0.781 x + 0.759 x + 0.605 x + 0.605 x 0.361 x 0.053 x + 0.290 x 0.341 x + 0.209 x 0.109 x 0.029 x 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 X = 0.257 x 0.052 x 0.186 x 0.225 x 0.107 x + 0.177 x + 0.809 x + 0.892 x + 0.855 x 0.799 x + 0.261 x 0.018 x 0.337 x 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 X = 0.121 x + 0.268 x + 0.140 x 0.158 x 0.116 x + 0.447 x 0.086 x + 0.256 x + 0.260 x 0.040 x + 0.745 x + 0.816 x 0.042 x 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 X = 0.737 x + 0.294 x + 0.319 x 0.268 x + 0.065 x 0.017 x + 0.065 x + 0.028 x 0.016 x + 0.064 x 0.182 x + 0.209 x + 0.649 x 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 = ω X + ω X + ω X + ω X Calculating composite scores: 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 Calculating composite scores for each listed company: 1 27. 481X + 24. 612X + 13. 14X + 10. 112X = 75. 345 1 2 3 4 According to the calculation we can obtain the value,,,, for each company, then we take the weighted average,,,,.or details, please to see table 5. 966

Table 5 Each Enterprise score Ticker 1 0 1 2 600222-1.140740-0.576338-0.044538-0.613340 002004 1.694492-0.257063-1.802801 1.407669 600789-1.306269-0.087163 0.201554-0.545529 600781 1.019558 0.270492-0.316494-0.038857 600276 2.545025 1.025124 0.533482-2.191250 600285-0.349434-1.247469-1.148131 0.366962 000915-0.927018-0.057203-0.050122 0.040855 000766-2.344169-2.496640-2.172294-1.026558 000705-0.197047 0.516836 0.804590 0.332279 600518 0.188420-0.326757-0.871412-0.238502 000566-3.326399-0.546911-0.527614-0.361973 000989-0.473804-0.275612-0.221491 1.035156 000590-1.385945-1.477125-2.096197 0.249076 000009-0.311694-0.625724 0.184735-1.090853 000788-1.047593-0.359573 0.142132-0.052164 000999-0.616403 1.041206 0.024260 0.399168 600297 0.196320-0.195809 0.838507-0.591366 000513-0.911448 0.974012-0.267709-1.801679 600466-1.838716-0.869314-0.776403-1.950015 600671-1.410566-3.270174-2.034295-0.231047 600656-0.384280-2.220402-1.130395 0.635371 000597 2.037862 1.601849 0.333839 1.189415 600085 0.026621-0.904430-1.093110-1.107412 000538 2.224467 0.991521 0.798284 0.711715 000963 3.894818 4.547739 3.415868 0.190442 000153-0.773126-0.286308 0.043421 0.440944 000411 3.817613 2.639856 3.773800 0.619836 600062 0.389818 0.519899-0.210210-0.163153 000028 3.714551 4.190679 3.365400-0.958417 600530-3.169747-2.083442-1.835301 0.749980 000623-0.528873-0.592334 2.028439 0.225428 002020-1.148946-0.699990-0.080328 2.524301 600436-0.575337-0.412438-0.402666 0.296800 600594 0.284361 0.163369-0.108584 1.026058 002038 1.371690 0.368996 0.680989-0.083896 600976-0.152153 0.151017 0.317096 0.260130 002022 1.273670 0.502108-0.486346 1.377974 000990-0.491977 0.304011 0.620406-0.325066 1.4.3 Comprehensive analysis of M & A performance Based on the above analysis and calculation process by SPSS, we can get 38 companies consolidated scores(table 6): Table 6 the total score of M&A performance Performance score Y 1 Y 0 Y 1 Y 2 Total score -0.003484-0.001566 0.011325 0.018644 CONCLUSION 1. Research conclusions According to corresponding composite score before and after the merger for all M & A sample for analysis, the trend of four total performance scores is rising. One year after the acquisition, performance increased from negative to positive, it indicating that mergers and acquisitions can improve and upgrade the performance of the enterprise markedly. After the year of M&A, Overall performance of pharmaceutical industry continued to increase over the previous year, but the rate of increase has slowed. 2. Policy suggestions (1)Take cautious attitude in mergers and acquisitions, make sufficient preparation before mergers and acquisitions M&A is a means to improve business performance, not the only way to improve business performance, Enterprises should be based on their specific situation to choose whether to take M&A measures. Before taking M&A measures, companies should also conduct detailed market study to obtain adequate information. [9]. 967

(2)Emphasis on the integration of the company after M & A The purpose of the integration is to use the function of M&A, in the top factor analysis, the companies of M&A doesn t keep pace to the performance development of the year of M&A, this is due to some companies has not been effectively integrated after the M & A. In the process of integration, companies should focus on grasping the organizational systems integration, production integration, cultural integration. (3)Improve laws and regulations about M & A The market economy is legal economy, the development of the pharmaceutical industry must be have law to obey.[10] There are only two laws, "Company Law" and "Securities Law" to regular the development of company in China. urther, there is no consistent, standardized system of merger law in pharmaceutical industry. The Government should establish a sound legal system, regulate M&A of pharmaceutical companies to reduce the adverse impact of the acquisition on performance. Acknowledgements This work is supported by my mentor, professor Shen and Zhang Ming, the graduate student of China University of Mining and Technology. REERENCES [1] Maquieira; Megginson; Nail, Journal of Economics, 1998, (48), 3-33. [2] Cao Yang; Ding Zhou,Economic Research Guide, 2011, (27), 73-75. [3] Li Donghua; Qiu lan; Bian Ying, China Pharmacy, 2008, 19(34), 2644-2646. [4]Ram Subramanian; Bahman Ebrahimi; Mary S. Thibodeaux, International Journal of Commerce and Management, 1992, 2(1), 4-16. [5]Wu Min; Shen Juqin; Zhang Xuefang;Liu Gaofeng, Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2013, 5(12),1379-1383. [6] Xuan Zhaohui; Lv Yongbo; Ni Zhiqing, Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research 2014, 6(1), 480-488. [7]Wang Shijun; Sun Peng; Zhang Hongzhi, Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2014, 6(1), 173-179. [8] Zhang Xiangqian; Yi Cai, Liu Xuan; Xia Le, Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2014, 6(1),369-374. [9] Shimizu Katsuhiko; Hitt Michael A; Vaidyanath Deepa; Pisano Vincenzo, Journal of International Management, 2004, (10), 307-353. [10] Andrade G; Mitchell M; Stafford E, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2001, (15), 103-120. 968