Citation:

Md. Rasel Uddin, Md. Mahadi Hasan, Muhammad Atiqul Islam. "Theory and Actual Business Strategies of ACI Ltd. and Its Impact on Financial Performances and Stock Price" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 183-200, 2026. Crossref. http://doi.org/10.56472/25835238/IRJEMS-V5I4P123

Abstract:

This report has been written based on the study of research articles of different business scholars on growth, expansion, and finance, and a close study of ACI Limited’s financial activities. Trying to get the crown of the Bangladesh's biggest conglomerates, one of the fastest- growing economies, is not an easy task. ACI Limited has been hard at work for the past 20 years or so to achieve this goal, and they have been contributing heavily to our economy in the process. They have been growing their number of subsidiaries and joint ventures at an alarming rate (twenty subsidiaries and joint ventures in total) and financing most of this growth through borrowed capital, which gave rise to this research work. The study is based on secondary data collected from ACI Ltd. Annual report for the period from 2006 to 2024. The study represents the position where the company stands in terms of existence, performance, profitability, as well as its size, and so forth, in relation to the share price from the background of its actual business strategies. ACI Ltd. mostly acts in an administrative manner with a high debt model of business expansion instead of a bootstrap financing strategy, which hurts EPS. We need to find out where this rapid growth takes ACI in the long run, in order to come to a reasonable conclusion for this research.

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Keywords:

Managerial Behavior, Theories, Business Strategies, Financial Performance, Share Price, ACI Ltd.