Homework: Managing Your Sales Force
1) Search Yahoo Finance, or any other credible source to retrieve the most recent income statement and balance sheet for a major leveraged corporation.
2) Provide these statements in proper format and include a screenshot of the data.
3) Retrieve the data on the company's historical data and calculate annual rate of return by using adjusted closing prices for the past 20 years.
4) Using the data on the company's stock rate of return and the index's rate of return estimate beta of the corporation. Compare this value with the value stated by the source.
5) Retrieve the risk-free rate of return as the annual interest rate of US treasuries. Based on these values estimate the expected annual rate of return of the corporation's security. Compare your estimate with the expected rate of return as evaluated based on your data in part b.
6) Using the financial statements mentioned above estimate the annual rate of interest paid by the corporation (cost of debt). Also, find the tax rate and capitalization ratio (proportions among equity and debt). Using these values that you have found estimate the annual weighted cost of capital (WACC) of the corporation.
7) This part of the homework is in preparation for CLA2. Choose 5 major securities from different industries, among which one can be the one you chose in part 1 of the question, Retrieve the data on the companies' historical data and calculate annual rate of return for the past 20 years for each security.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.