Stock Valuation And Analysis

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to allow students the opportunity to research a Fortune 500 company stock using the popular online research tool Yahoo Finance. The tool allows the student to review analyst reports and other key financial information necessary to evaluate the stock value and make an educated decision on whether to invest. 

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Yahoo Finance 

Select a Fortune 500 Company from one of the following industries:

Pharmaceutical

Energy

Retail

Automotive

Computer Hardware

Manufacturing

Mining

Access Yahoo Finance and enter the company name. 

Review the financial information and statistics provided for the stock you selected and answer the following:

What is the ticker symbol of the company you chose?

What is the Current Stock Price?

What is the Market Cap for the stock you chose?

What is the Price to Earnings Ratio?

What is the Dividend and Yield?

What is the Enterprise Value?

What is the Beta?

Was there a Stock Split, and if so, when?

What was the closing stock price for the last 5 days?

What was the 52 Week High for this stock?

What is the Book Value per Share?

What type of rating are analysts recommending (i.e. buy, hold, etc.)?

What is the target price analysts are predicting for this stock?

What is the analyst’s average revenue estimate for next year?

What are some of the significant news items and press releases made by the company over the last year? 

Explain in 700 words why you would or would not recommend investing in this stock. 

Describe the relationship between the value of the stock and the price to earnings ratio.  

What information does the Market Capitalization (Market Cap) and Beta provide to the investor?

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Recall what you learned this week about the five stages of group development and team performance. With that in mind, respond to the following:

Describe one workplace scenario in which understanding of these five stages could have helped you work more effectively with a team. Provide a rationale for your response.

Reflect on your teamwork experience and share the good, bad, and tolerable characteristics of being a team member.

The Block Business Letter

Choose one of the professional scenarios provided in Blackboard under the Student Center tab, or click here to view them in a new window. 

Write a Block Business Letter from the perspective of company management.  It must provide bad news to the recipient and follow the guidelines outlined in Chapter 7: Delivering Bad-News Messages in BCOM9 (pages 116-136).

The message should take the block business letter form from the posted example; however, you will submit your assignment to the online course shell.

The block business letter must adhere to the following requirements:

Content:

Address the communication issue from the scenario.

Provide bad news from the company to the recipient.

Concentrate on the facts of the situation and use either the inductive or deductive approach.

Assume your recipient has previously requested a review of the situation via email, letter, or personal meeting with management.

Introduction To Capital Budgeting/Investment Valuation

Mary Francis has just returned to her office after attending preliminary discussions with investment bankers. Her last meeting regarding the intended capital structure of Apix went well, and she calls you into her office to discuss the next steps.“We will need to determine the required return for our intended project so that we have a decision criteria defined for the project,” she says.“Do you have the information I need to describe capital structure and to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)?” you ask.“I do,” she smiles. “We can determine the target WACC for Apix Printing Inc., given these assumptions,” she says as she hands you a piece of paper that says the following:

Weights of 40% debt and 60% common equity (no preferred equity)  

A 35% tax rate  

Cost of debt is 8%  

Beta of the company is 1.5  

Risk-free rate is 2%  

Return on the market is 11% 

The confession of NAT Turner and David walker

The main purpose of a response paper is to articulate and defend a well-reasoned (but perhaps not comprehensively argued) response to a piece of literature. What I want you to do in this case is to respond to the literature we have read so far, one or both of The Confessions of Nat Turner and David Walker’s Appeal. Think and write about what seems important to both authors thematically, perhaps thinking about the similarities and differences with which they describe or depict those themes. You can think about how specific characters or categories of individuals are depicted, how the setting is depicted, how the plot or argument is constructed, and what the implications are for these choices that the authors make. You can also write a bit about how the genres and situations differ or are similar for both of these authors. With any of these options you choose, you should include discussion of very specific passages and make sure to explain why that passage means what you say it does about your topic.

Use MLA format to cite in text and include a works cited entry for the texts you discuss. Include in-text citations anytime you point to either text. Please do not include any outside research or secondary sources for this assignment.

“Economies of Scale and Scope”

Describe activities in your organization or other organizations that result in economies of scale and economies of scope. Explain the economic benefits of these activities for the organization.

Pathopharmacological Foundations for Advanced Nursing Practice

As an advanced practice nurse, it is important to diagnose, treat, and evaluate patients who have chronic disease. A nurse must understand how pathology, treatment, regimens, and psycho-social issues affect patients and the care they receive. Disease management is more than just monitoring a medication or treatment; it is evaluating the disease process from the micro to macro level. As a nurse with an advanced degree, you will be expected to assess patients and individual and population responses to chronic illness.

Integrate leadership skills of systems thinking, communication and facilitating change in meeting patient care needs

Develop understanding of human resource development concepts, effective conflict management skills, and effective collaboration skills 

Identify collaborative decision making and distinguish different models of decision making, and identify ways to make decision making more effective

EMGT 403 RRP 4

Using the provided template, include your Championed Cause, SMART Strategic Statement and an example of how each of the ‘5Es’ would be implemented. We will look at the SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely) approach to developing strategic goals. SMART strategic objectives are a means of effectively expressing expectations. If the goal is SMART, it stands a much better chance of being achieved. Applying the SMART system to your goal planning will help to ensure that your intended results will be achieved.