Over the last two years, Fever Tree plc has been on quite a rollercoaster in terms of its share price.The share price graph shows that shares were quite low around January and February 2021 and then peaked in July and December 2021 but later dropped again to close around 40% lower than the peak.Your assignment is to question if the fortunes of the company are bourn out in the Annual Report and Financial Statements.

You are required to consider the information contained in the Annual Report and Financial Statements of Fever Tree for the year 2018, 2019 and 2020. These can be found at the following link:

https://fever-tree.com/en_GB/investors-results-and-reports

The task has been split into 4 mini-tasks as follows:

Task One

As a Financial Analyst and using the Annual Report and Accounts of Fever Tree Plc for the period 2018, 2019 and 2020, you are required to evaluate the performance of the company by selecting 2 ratios from each of the categories of ratios. The report and annual accounts for these years are available at the following link:

https://fever-tree.com/en_GB/investors-results-and-reports

You are required to evaluate the performance of the company across all categories of ratios.

You should summarise your findings and make particular reference to the interests of the different stakeholders of the company.

Note: Any accounting ratios mustbe calculated (and workings shown) and notextracted from external databases.

(50%)

Task Two

As a Financial Analystand considering your response to Task One above, you are required to provide advice on what you think should be done in order to improve the performance of the ratio.

(20%)

Task Three

Now consider yourself as a shareholder in the company. Your third task is to analyse the four sections of the Chairman's Statement - Strategic Priorities (page 16 and 17).

Consider one question for each of the strategic prioritiesthat you would like to ask the Chairman. Your question should be focused, relevant to helping you make an informed decision about investing in the company and should be worded coherently. Ask yourself, what would you like to know before investing?

(15%)

Task Four

Now consider yourself as a Financial Analystanalysing the opportunities as described on page 12 and page 13 - The Global Opportunity Ahead.

For each of the 6 opportunities that are outlined on page 12 and 13, you are required to suggest which category would be interesting to analyse and why the category is relevant?

All work done here must include references.

(15%)

(Total 100%)