Desempenho econômico da empresa Magazine Luiza S.A. antes e depois da cotação máxima histórica de sua ação ordinária - um estudo comparativo.

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the economic performance of Magazine Luiza S.A with the purpose of finding justifications for the recent downtrend in this commons shares. To this end, statistical methods werw used, such as the average, standart deviation, coefficient of variation, the linear regression and the T test. in view of this, a joint analysis was approached separating the company's accounting data in two periods: The period "before", going back from the maximum price that occured in november 2020 tothe last time that the lowest price ocurred in november 2020, to the lowest price in July 2022. The separation between the two periods was made so that we could find a possible explanation for the almost 93% devaluation of MGLU3. These methods were applied to the separate quarters to carry out the analyzes of the two periods of action, the Fundamentus website and cover the period fron December 2017 to March 2022. The metric used to carry out the analyzes were the profitability and the rentability, both belong to the analysis of economic performance. It was possible to conclude that, after comparin the two periods, the economic performance could be considered one of the reasons that made the price of MGLU3 enter a downtrend, with a fall of more than 90% of it its value in the period "after".