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Principles of Finance-Spring 2016-Research Paper
Choose a publicly traded company and for “your” company research and report on the following:
My Company that I am working on is Walmart. I am gathering information from Walmart to create my own company which will be a hanbag company.
The Company's trading symbol
Background/history of the company
Market Performance of the company throughout the semester
ID their Beta, Market Cap, P/E and sector
Identify the risks associated with investing in this company including industry, economic, internal & external
Identify their dividend policy, payments & history.
How do their dividends compare to the market as a whole and their industry?
Conduct ratio analysis on their financials, compare their numbers to the industry, their competitors and discuss the trends of their numbers.
Who are their competitors and why?
What is their debt structure?
What do they do to address sustainability?
Discuss some of their take on ethics per their annual report
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