You already have a significant investment portfolio, funded in large part by proceeds of stock options received
Question:
You already have a significant investment portfolio, funded in large part by proceeds of stock options received as compensation for your internship at Apple. You have recently received some additional funds and are now wondering how to invest them.
After doing some research, you decided that a good dividend-paying stock is the perfect investment for your new funds. Evaluating your options, you discovered an interesting company by the name of Bling Gold Mines. The company’s stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol: BLMS. You are particularly interested in this company given its stable history and attractive dividend. Last year BLMS paid a dividend of $3.90 per share, which at the stock’s current price of $22 would give you an annual return of almost 18%. This return is over three times what you can obtain from most major gold mining stocks. In today’s financial climate, a return of almost 18% is one which you’d be very happy with.
Completing a Financial Accounting class has given you the skills to evaluate financial statements. Therefore, you download BLMS’s latest annual report dated December 31, 2014, to evaluate it in order to make a decision on your possible investment. Relevant parts of this report are included below.
After a considerable time pouring through BLMS’s annual report, you decide...
Instructions: Evaluate the excerpts from BLMS’s annual report (shown below) and in two pages or less state whether as a result of your evaluation you invest your funds in BLMS’s shares or not and why. Be decisive! Start by stating whether you would invest in BLMS following with the reason(s) that prompt your decision. HINT: This is not an extremely subjective case or one that easily lends itself to multiple interpretations. There is one fact that is of the utmost relevance and which should drive your decision. Find it!
Financial Reporting Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation a strategic perspective
ISBN: 978-1337614689
9th edition
Authors: James M. Wahlen, Stephen P. Baginski, Mark Bradshaw