Review of Financial Research Report: This assignment is an analysis of a US publicly-traded company; its common stock could be a prospective investment. The report is due in Week 10, in needs to be at least 5 pages, and it needs to cover the following topics:
Company Overview. Conduct research and describe the company, its operations, locations, markets, and lines of business. Collect financial statements for the past three years, fiscal or calendar.
Ratio analysis. Perform trend and ratio analysis on current and fixed assets, current and long term liabilities, owner's equity, sales revenues, EBIT, net income, and earnings per share. Project these trends for three years.
Stock price analysis. Research the company's common stock price for the past five years. Research the Standard & Poor's Stock Market
Index (S&P 500) for the past five years. Chart the price movement in the company's common stock against the S&P price movement.
State and support your opinion on the company's common stock as an investment opportunity.
References. Use at least five references and follow APA format when preparing the report.