BIZ321 FALL 2013 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Term Paper Guideline
Term Paper DUE: Wednesday, December 11th
Overdue paper will also receive ZERO credit
IMPORTANT: This project you should turn in each person separately. – no group work on the research projects. The term paper should be written with the font size 12 points, double-spaced, 1 inch margin each side at least, no more than 3 pages include everything (charts, tables, etc.) without cover page. If your paper is not tted to this criteria, you will receive ZERO credit.
I. To begin work on your research project, select ONE company that you are interested in.
II. The main objective of this project is to evaluate the stock price of the company by using analyzing tools we have learned over the semester. (The analysis should include both technical analysis” and fundamental analysis”
III. Do the following to help choose the question:
1. Beginning with one company you are interested in, look up the related market news (macroeconomic news, industry news, company’s news, etc). If you feel like you are nding either too few or too many papers, please see me)
2. Based on what you nd in the market news, carefully summarize key statistics which look useful in forecasting the value of your company.
Technical Analysis:
{ Stock price history { Share statistics
{ Dividends history { Volatility history
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Fundamental Analysis:
{ Market Capitalization { Enterprise Value
{ Pro tability
{ Income Statement { Balance Sheet
{ Cash Flow
3. After you collect the necessary information, you may be able to evaluate your company in your way so that you can suggest your forecast on the stock price of the company. In this section, you should rationalize your suggestion based on the data and the market news.
4. Given the estimated evaluation, you nally suggest your opinion on
Strong buy Buy
Hold
Underperform Sell
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