GOOGLE Financial Analysis Report Prepared for: Financial Management Class – Florida Institute of Technology February 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 COMPANY INTRODUCTION 4 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS 5 Summary Financial Analysis Report 6 WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WACC) 10 FUTURE CASH FLOWS 12 ANALYSIS OF CASH FLOWS 13 Sensitivity Analysis of Google’s 2011 Future Cash Flow 14 Sensitivity Graph for Google’s 2011 Future Cash Flow 15 Sensitivity Graph for
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Google Yourself How can googling yourself for the first time change future decisions? I never thought about googling myself in a million years so it caused a lot of anticipation. What was I going to find‚ will I be disappointed‚ and how am I being perceived. After researching myself and viewing what all came up on the search engine I was shocked. There was only just a few links that inquired my name. I found a guest book that I signed for my favorite music artist and a baby registry and an account
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Current Situation It has been over six years since Google has gone public with an opening of $83 per share and over 19 million shares released. The stock topped over $600 per share in 2009. At the end of the 52-week period in 2010 the stock had dropped 4.7%. Google continues to grow at a rapid pace. Past purchases of YouTube and Postini as well as DoubleClick have secured its potential for future growth. While legal issues regarding the acquisition of personal information over Wi-Fi sources‚
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Google Inc. A Strategic Move History Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in spring 1995 at a gathering in Stanford University. Between January 1996 and December 1997‚ they created "BackRub"‚ the precursor of Google search engine. The objective was to better organize and huge amount of data on the Internet. Eventually the name was changed to "Google" to signify the immense amount of information that resided on the Internet. Google is transformed from the word googol‚ referring to 1 followed by
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1. Summary In this report we have chosen to analysis the innovation that is the ‘Google Search Engine’. We have chosen to base our report on the Google search engine; a revolutionary innovation that has transformed the way in which the internet is used. 1.1 Introduction Google began life as a research project between two Stanford University graduate students‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin in January‚ 1996. They hypothesized that developing a search engine that analysed the relationships between
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HR PRACTICES IN GOOGLE 1. Building innovation into job descriptions: ’20 percent time ’ Technical employees are required to spend 80% of their time on the core search and advertising businesses‚ and 20% on technical projects of their own choosing." "Employees ’ work structure follows a ’70/20/10 ’ model‚ 2. Eliminating friction at every turn: ensuring change can happen quickly and efficiently Google’s approach to innovation is highly improvisational. Any engineer in the company has a
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Competitive Strategy Assessment 2 Case Study Google Inc. INTRODUCTION This Business Report primarily addresses 4 questions asked on the Google Inc. case study. Information is primarily obtained from the case study and from publicly available news reports and articles. KEY QUESTIONS 1. What were the key factors behind Google’s early success? A number of key factors contributed to Google’s early success. Google had unassailable competitive advantage
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Google Inc. Marketing Case Study Analysis Submitted by: Lynne Abt Prof. Paul Guyette BUS 689: Marketing Strategy & Policy Rivier College May 06‚ 2007 Industry Background Search engine companies haven’t been around for very long with most of them coming into existence in the mid 1990’s. Many of these companies are already gone or in a state of gobbling each other up to compete with the bigger companies. Yahoo seems to be the grandfather of the currently existing crop starting in 1994. The
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BUMA 1001 Introduction to Modern Business and Management Company Analysis by i Buma 1001 Google Case Study Abstract Google has managed to become one of the most successful and respected companies in the world‚ gaining credit for their exceptional performance and contribution to society. Google managed to do all of this in just over a 10 year period‚ a time span in which no other company has made such an immense progress. The company employs thousands of talented people‚ coming from all around
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1. Executive Summary Google Inc. was started in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a small scale search engine as a garage company. The founders had little idea about how big their company will be in coming years. Google‚ now‚ being the biggest search engine‚ has become a word in the English language (Abt 2007). Google have also been rated the best company to work for in the year 2012 by Fortune. It proves that Google takes care of its employees and creates a good work environment to work in
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