Cathay Pacific Airways hits two-month high

Hong Kong company Cathay Pacific Airways (CTY.F), Germany's 3rd largest airlines company by market capitalisation, traded at its 47-day high of EUR1.451. The stock price added 4.20c (or 3.0%) to close at EUR1.451. Compared with the DAX index, which rose 61.7 points (or 1.0%) on the day, this was a relative price change of 2.0%.

Price Change % 1-day 1-month 1-year CTY 2.98% 12.48% -34.79% Airlines 1.63% 12.42% 26.76% DAX index 0.97% 13.15% -9.41%

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PRICE DYNAMICS

Volatility: the stock traded between an intraday low of EUR1.429 and two-month high of EUR1.451. The average daily volatility of 1.7% places the stock in the 4th quartile in the market meaning it is least volatile.

% Discount to high: the last price is at a discount of 34.8% to the 12-month high of EUR2.225 a year ago on 19 Jan, 2011.

% Premium to low: the last price is at a premium of 27.0% to the 12-month low of EUR1.143 four months ago on 05 Oct, 2011.

Volume weighted price (VWP): the price is at a premium of 9.8% to the 1-month volume weighted average price of EUR1.322.

Beta: The Beta of this stock is 0.55. A Beta lower than 1 suggests this is a low risk, low return stock with volatility less than that of the market.

Trailing month: in the last 21 trading sessions there has been a net rise of 17.68%; the stock has advanced 19 times and the biggest one day rise was 5.3% on Nov 30.

AGGREGATE VOLUMES, PRICES AND TURNOVER PERIOD

[Volume Index or VI in brackets; 1 is average]

Hong Kong: 00293.HK 6,610,000 [VI of 1.0]; volume 99.91% of aggregate. Price: HKD14.40. Using the current exchange rate of HKD1 equals 0.1003EUR, the shares are at a 0.5% discount to the close price in the German Stock Exchange.

Frankfurt: CTY.F 6,000 [VI of 2.1]; volume 0.09% of aggregate. Price: EUR1.409.

Aggregate volume: there were 6,616,000 shares worth EUR9.6 million (US$12.3 million) traded. The aggregate volume was 0.98 times average trading of 6,764,503 shares.

PRICE PERFORMANCE RANK IN SECTORS

The stock is in 2 sectors.

The following index and sectors rose setting the trend for its rise of 3.0%:

Airlines sector of 8 stocks traded today, which was up 152.4 points or 1.6% to 9,514.1,

DAX index which was up 61.7 points or 1.0% to 6,416.3,

The Total German Market of 1337 stocks traded today, which was up 35.6 points or 0.6% to 5,949.

Percentile Rank 1-day 1-month 6-months CTY 80 69 55 Airlines 70 68 96 DAX index 61 70 45

RELATIVE VALUATION INDICATORS [RVI] FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS

Bearish Signals:- The average annual compound return on the share price in the last 5 years was -7.0%, underperforming the average annual compound return on the DAX index of 1.1%

RELATIVE VALUATION INDICATORS [RVI] TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Bullish Signals:

- The price soared 12.5% in the last month.

- The price to 50-day EMAP ratio is 1.1, a bullish indicator.

- The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator of 12-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) minus the 26-day EMA is positive suggesting a bullish signal.

Bearish Signals:

- In the German market of 1,339 stocks traded today, the stock has a 6-month relative strength of 55 which means it has outperformed 55% of the market.

- The price to 200-day MAP ratio is 0.99. The 200-day MAP has decreased to EUR1.468. A decrease is a bearish indicator.

SHAREHOLDER RETURNS

Trailing one week: the stock was untraded four times (80% of the time) and rose once (20% of the time). The value of EUR1,000 invested a week ago is EUR1,114 [vs EUR1,038 for the DAX index], for a capital gain of EUR114(or rise of 11.4%).

Trailing one month: the stock rose nine times (41% of the time), was untraded eight times (36% of the time) and fell five times (23% of the time). The aggregate volume was 0.7 times average trading of 83,072 shares. The value of EUR1,000 invested a month ago is EUR1,125 [vs EUR1,131 for the DAX index], for a capital gain of EUR125(or rise of 12.5%).

Trailing one year: the value of EUR1,000 invested one year ago is EUR668 [vs EUR912 for the DAX index], including a capital loss of EUR348 and dividend reinvested of EUR15. The total return to shareholders for 1 year is -33.2%.

Trailing five years: the value of EUR1,000 invested five years ago is EUR697, including a capital loss of EUR319 and dividend reinvested of EUR16.

PVEUR1000 1-week 1-month 1-year CTY EUR1,114 EUR1,125 EUR668 Airlines EUR1,029 EUR1,124 EUR1,280 DAX index EUR1,038 EUR1,131 EUR912

FUNDAMENTALS

Size CTY Rank in Airlines MCAP (EUR) 5.7 billion 3

ISSUED CAPITAL

Based on 3,932,612,072 issued equity shares the market capitalisation is EUR5.7 billion (US$7.4 billion).

ACTIVITIES

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited operates scheduled airline services. The Company also provides related services, including airline catering, aircraft handling, and engineering.

TOP MANAGEMENT

The chairman is Chris Pratt.

Currency Conversion:Currency Conversion: Euro1= US$1.2889 [or US$1=Euro0.78]; Against the US$ the Euro increased 42.07 basis points (or 0.4%) for the day; climbed 1.7% for the week; weakened 0.5% for the month; dropped 6.2% in the past year. EUR1 = 100c.

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