Business Performance, Based On The Factor Analysis Method, Compare Before And After The Financial Crisis, Shandong Major Listed Companies

This article tells the background and significance of analysis on listed companies' performance and introduces the basic idea and procedure of factor analysis. In the second chapter it makes a detailed discussion concerning both foreign and domestic research about business performance and the analysis methods used by some dissertations. In the third chapter and fourth chapter we collect the data from the financial statement of listed companies in 2006 and 2008 and analyze their business performance through factor analysis. After that, we get the final score and rank for the listed companies of Shandong province. Finally, by comparing the performances of 2006 and 2008, we figure out these companies'relative development trend.The research finds that firstly the operational efficiency of the listed companies of Shandong province gets much less in 2008 than that in 2006 and secondly in the light of industry, energy and mineral companies are best in business performance and the electronics and technology companies won the second place.