Introductory Part 1. Background: A stock market / share market is a public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange. Usually‚ a stock market is the reflector of its countries economy. The stock market has become an essential market playing a vital role in economic prosperity that fostering capital formation and sustaining economic growth. Stock markets are more than a place to trade securities; they operate as
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April 22‚ 2013 International Business Machines Corp. SUMMARY Current Recommendation Prior Recommendation Date of Last Change Current Price (04/19/13) Target Price (IBM-NYSE) NEUTRAL Outperform 10/08/2009 $190.00 $200.00 IBM reported a dismal first quarter missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate on both lines. Revenue growth was particularly weak‚ due to execution problem and lackluster demand. We believe that sluggish IT spending remains the major headwind in the near term. Additionally
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The Stock Market Do you think if your personal finance are affected and thousands of company’s shares traded because of the New York Stock Exchange? The biggest stock market in the world Billions of dollars pass from hand to hand every single day in this establishment. Two hundred years ago in front of Trinity Church in East Manhattan‚ the foundation of the New York Stock Exchange has started out. Recurrently owning shares in cargo was coming in on ships everyday for silver traders after the
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RATIO ANALYSIS (ALL VALUES IN Rs. MILLION) 1. GROSS PROFIT MARGIN (%): GROSS PROFIT = NET SALES – COGS = TOTAL REVENUE – (Employee Benefit Expense + Operating and Other Expenses + Finance Costs) = 53107 – (22510+21598+1025) = 7974 GROSS PROFIT MARGIN = (NET SALES – COGS)/NET SALES = (7974/ 53107)*100 = 15.01497% 2. RETURN ON ASSET(RoA) RETURN ON ASSET = (PAT/TOTAL ASSET)*100 = (4606/63454)*100 = 7.258% This indicates that around 7.3% of all assets have been utilized
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 MANAGERIAL FINANCE: 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANALYSIS: 3 RATIO ANALYSIS: 3 FAUJI CEMENT BALANCE SHEET AND PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 4 RATIO ANALYSIS: 9 INTRODUCTION MANAGERIAL FINANCE: • Managerial finance is concerned with the duties of the financial manager in the business firm. • The financial manager actively manages the financial affairs of any type of business‚ whether private or public‚ large or small‚ profit-seeking or not-for-profit
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Valuation of Common Stock Ashok Banerjee Common (Equity) Stocks • Because common stock never matures‚ today’s value is the present value of an infinite stream of cash flows (i.e.‚ dividend). • But dividends are not fixed. • Not knowing the amount of the dividends—or even if there will be future dividends— makes it difficult to determine the value of common stock. • So what are we to do? Valuation Models • Dividend Valuation Model (DVM): – Constant dividend: Let D be the constant DPS: The required
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marutisuzuki.com Following data for Maruti Suzuki has been assumed and obtained: * The share prices of maruti Suzuki listed on NSE have been considered for the past five years taken monthly. * The NSE index has also been considered for the past five years taken monthly. * The growth rate for both share price of maruti Suzuki and NSE has been obtained using formula =LN(price of current period/price of previous period). * Then an average for both has been calculated and subsequently variance
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A company may issue both stocks and bonds which can be a sign of the company’s financial standing in a market. Since investors are risk averse and they would not like to put their money on stocks and bonds of a struggling company‚ but they would like to put their money on stocks and bonds of a stable and a progressing company. Investors benefit from company’s profit in the form of dividend when they buy a company’s stocks and investors can get higher or lower yield based on the bonds. This is the
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Ratio Analysis Paper Before beginning an analysis of a company it is necessary to have a complete set of financial statements‚ preferably for the pas few years so that historical trends can be obtained. Ratios are a way for anyone to get an idea of the financial performance of a company by using the information contained in the financial statements. Ratios are grouped into four basic categories‚ liquidity‚ activity‚ profitability‚ and financial leverage. This document will use a variety of these
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Ratio analysis 1. Liquidity ratio The liquidity ratios measure the company’s ability to meet its short-term debt obligations (Intermediate accounting- Kieso‚ D.E.‚ J.J. Weygandt and T.D. Warfield). These ratios include current ratios‚ quick ratios‚ and cash ratio. Current ratio: the current ratio of GM has increased from 1.29 in 2012 to 1.30 in 2013. With a higher ratio in 2013‚ it’s better for GM to meet its short-term obligation. Quick ratio: the quick ratio of GM has improved from 0.79 in 2012
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