Project Each member of the class is encouraged to become part of a study group consisting...

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Project Each member of the class is encouraged to become part of a study group consisting of two to four students. This group will work together and prepare the topic explained more below. Once a group is formed it cannot be changed, so please choose your groups CAREFULLY. Topic: You must write an Equity Research Report. Although there is no universal format for any equity research report, some rules and contents are widely used and covered. Please refer to this document produced by the CFA Institute, here. Also, there are various Equity Research Reports available on the internet. Search for them and become familiar with the most common contents. Select a company that you like. The only restriction is that you must select a company whose stock is traded in the stock market. Then: Go to yahoo finance, use the selected company's ticker (examples: the ticker for Apple is AAPL, the ticker for Coca-Cola is KO, the ticker for Tesla is TSLA) in the search engine and access to the company's profile. There, you find 11 pages you can browse, from "Summary' to "Sustainability. The data/information conveyed in these pages is the primary source of information for your project. Use it. These are the aspects that you must include in your report: 1. Executive summary at the beginning of your report. An executive summary is a brief description of what the reader is about to read once he or she goes through your report. Again, there are many places where you can find information about how to write a good executive summary. Search for it in the CFA document (link provided above). 2. The company's financial ratios. You should select the most relevant ones, and you should consider the ones that you have learned in the prerequisite course of Principles of Finance. Make sure that you present the financial ratios for the last 5 years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018) 3. You need to apply the following models/techniques in your work: a) Dividend Discount Model (Gordon-Shapiro Model) b) Multiples Valuation Go to the internet and search for more sources of information. Your equity report is a report about the company's fundamentals. All traded companies have annual reports, and they are available on the internet. Search for information in them. Other relevant sites you may find of interest are: Corporate Finance Institute, Market Watch, Investopedia and Seeking Alpha. Finally, surprise me! You must tell a story to the investor (let's pretend it's me) about the company that you have selected. Make sure that you include some 'strategic' information: the company's main competitors, the opportunities and threats the company faces and some insight on the company's strengths and weaknesses, as you perceive them. You can tell a story in some many ways, so be creative! Project Each member of the class is encouraged to become part of a study group consisting of two to four students. This group will work together and prepare the topic explained more below. Once a group is formed it cannot be changed, so please choose your groups CAREFULLY. Topic: You must write an Equity Research Report. Although there is no universal format for any equity research report, some rules and contents are widely used and covered. Please refer to this document produced by the CFA Institute, here. Also, there are various Equity Research Reports available on the internet. Search for them and become familiar with the most common contents. Select a company that you like. The only restriction is that you must select a company whose stock is traded in the stock market. Then: Go to yahoo finance, use the selected company's ticker (examples: the ticker for Apple is AAPL, the ticker for Coca-Cola is KO, the ticker for Tesla is TSLA) in the search engine and access to the company's profile. There, you find 11 pages you can browse, from "Summary' to "Sustainability. The data/information conveyed in these pages is the primary source of information for your project. Use it. These are the aspects that you must include in your report: 1. Executive summary at the beginning of your report. An executive summary is a brief description of what the reader is about to read once he or she goes through your report. Again, there are many places where you can find information about how to write a good executive summary. Search for it in the CFA document (link provided above). 2. The company's financial ratios. You should select the most relevant ones, and you should consider the ones that you have learned in the prerequisite course of Principles of Finance. Make sure that you present the financial ratios for the last 5 years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018) 3. You need to apply the following models/techniques in your work: a) Dividend Discount Model (Gordon-Shapiro Model) b) Multiples Valuation Go to the internet and search for more sources of information. Your equity report is a report about the company's fundamentals. All traded companies have annual reports, and they are available on the internet. Search for information in them. Other relevant sites you may find of interest are: Corporate Finance Institute, Market Watch, Investopedia and Seeking Alpha. Finally, surprise me! You must tell a story to the investor (let's pretend it's me) about the company that you have selected. Make sure that you include some 'strategic' information: the company's main competitors, the opportunities and threats the company faces and some insight on the company's strengths and weaknesses, as you perceive them. You can tell a story in some many ways, so be creative!

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