Question 1:

Choose a company from the link bellow.https://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/listedCompanies.do Click on the Key statistics and check if the company paid dividend for the last 4 years. If you see no dividend history available then do not choose that company. Look for another company with 4 years of dividend payment record.

Company Name:Stock Ticker Symbol:Stock Information:Most recent priceMarket capitalizationDaily volumeNumber of ordinary securities published on ASX

Most recent dividendAnnual dividend yieldP/E ratioEPSCompany Description:

Question 2:

Dividends Information:

Dividends Growth Rates {(D1 / D0) -1} Annual rate of return using Gordon Model (P0 = D1/r-g) 2017 (D3)For Price information (P0) check yahoo finance. You can do this section along with question number 4. 2016 (D2)2015 (D1)2014 (D0)

Question 3:

Information content in announcement:

Check your chosen company's most recent announcement from ASX website (announcement section).

Announcement DateAnnouncement HeadlineGood news or bad newsWhy? Is it related to systematic risk or unsystematic risk?

Did the share price move up on good news and down on bad news or was the pattern more mixed? (Check the share price the dates just before and after the announcement date and check the pattern)

For Price information (P0) after the announcement date check yahoo finance. You can do this section along with question number 4.

Question 4:

Steps in downloading stock price from https://au.finance.yahoo.com/

a. Type the name of your chosen company in yahoo finance search option b. Click on the historical data c. Choose time 4 years data (for example 07 March 2016 - 07 March 2020). d. Show: historical price, Frequency: Weekly e. Download the excel spread sheet and save it. f. Keep date and Adj closing price columns and delete open, high, low and volume columns. g. Now go back to yahoo finance home page and click on the ASX 200 stock index. Then click on the historical data and collect data for the same 4 years period weekly data for the ASX 200 index. h. Download the ASX 200 index data and only choose Adj closing price. Copy Adj closing price and past it next to your chosen company's stock price. Follow the above two videos to collect data for your chosen company and ASX 200 index.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LiK-qbmPswhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpnOP0oFSpQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlClflcSrM8 i. Then compute returns (returnt = (Pt - Pt-1)/Pt-1 ) of the chosen stock and ASX 200 index for 4 years (weekly data) period.

Your chosen company (most recent dates)

ASX 200 (most recent date)

Return (most recent period)

Mean (average returns)

Variance

Standard Deviation

*Slope (Beta)

*Slope = covariance (returns of X company, returns of ASX 200)/ variance of ASX returns. You can either type (=slope (return of X, Returns of ASX 200) in excel or the above slope formula.

J. Then calculate beta by regressing the share's returns on the returns to the index chosen. Report both excel results and regression result with beta. Your calculated slope and beta will be exactly the same.

Please submit both word file and excel file with regression results.

Strategies for finishing assignment on time:

1. Choose a company following the selection criteria. Once you have selected a company, declare the company name in the FIN 510/FIN 205 forum with your student ID (in the forum write student ID and name of your selected company) so that other students do not select the same company. Before choosing a company check the FIN 510/ FIN 205 assignment forum whether your chosen company has been selected by others.

2. Read about the company from ASX and company's website.

3. Complete assignment questions step by step and check if you are in right direction according the requirements of the questions. Make sure you practice excel while doing this assignment.

4. Finalize word file (12 font, calibri (body), line spacing single).

5. Finalize excel file with regression results. Convert excel sheet in to PDF or copy excel results in to word file and add this with your assignment file. (Please keep a copy of yours excel sheet as a future reference. I might ask you to send me a copy of yours excel file).

6. Proof read your assignment prior to the submission.

7. Submit the assignment prior to the submission deadline. Make sure you have submitted the assignment on time, as there will be penalty for late submission.