CASE – 1 Dabur India Limited: Growing Big and Global Dabur is among the top five FMCG companies in India and is positioned successfully on the specialist herbal platform. Dabur has proven its expertise in the fields of health care‚ personal care‚ homecare and foods. The company was founded by Dr. S. K. Burman in 1884 as small pharmacy in Calcutta (now Kolkata)‚ India. And is now led by his great grandson Vivek C. Burman‚ who is the Chairman of Dabur India Limited and the senior most representative
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Demise- Were there warning signs? Enron’s stock price traded around $62.72 per share at the end of April 2001. Do you think Enron was worth that much? Why or why not?‚ answer: In order value stocks one has to understand the possible future earnings of the company represented as earning per share. Since Enron has not quality financial representations‚ those figures are not easy to identify. Relying on big financial intuitions’ data we may come up with a stock value which would be a conservative
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price—of a stock depends on the volatility of the stock market in general. For example‚ consider the following variables pertaining to Amazon stock: AMZN = the fractional change in the price of Amazon stock on a day‚ MKT = the fractional change in the market on that same day. The data file Amazon.xls contains 503 historical values of these two variables; thus‚ for example‚ the first value of 0.005193 for AMZN and −0.01003 for MKT means that‚ on that particular day‚ the price of Amazon stock increased
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Aspin Corporation’s charter authorizes issuance of 2‚000‚000 shares of common stock. Currently‚ 1‚400‚000 shares are outstanding‚ and 100‚000 shares are being held as treasury stock. The firm wishes to raise $48‚000‚000 for a plant expansion. Discussions with its investment bankers indicate that the sale of new common stock will net the firm $60 per share. a. What is the maximum number of new shares of common stock that the firm can sell without receiving further authorization from shareholders
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Jones‚ the Dow 30‚ or simply the Dow‚ is a stock market index‚ and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. The average is named after Dow and one of his business associates‚ statistician Edward Jones. It is an index that shows how 30 large‚ publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market. It is the second oldest U.S. market index after the Dow Jones Transportation
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the proposed employee stock option plan? In a typical stock option plan‚ the employee is offered a specific number of shares which he/she can exercise (buy) at some specified time in the future. The price at which the employee can buy the stock is equal to the market price at the time the stock option was granted (grant price). The employee ’s gain is equal to the market value of the stock at the time it is exercised‚ less the grant price. If the market price of the stock remains the same or decreases
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The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: Capital Structure‚ Valuation‚ and Cost of Capital Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company is a well-known leader that manufactures confections such as gums‚ mints‚ hard and chewy candies‚ lollipops‚ and chocolates. The company was founded in 1891 and its headquarters is based in Chicago‚ Illinois. It has operations in over 40 countries and distributes many of its world famous brand such as Double mint‚ Extra‚ Skittles‚ Orbit to more than 180 countries. Investment strategy of Blanka
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Journal One - The Stock Market Game First submission Date 26/10/2009 | Table 1 | | | Company | Shares bought | Share Price | Change | 3i Group | 2000 | £2.95 | £5‚900.00 | BP | 2000 | £5.65 | £11‚300.00 | Prudential | 4000 | £6.33 | £25‚320.00 | Sainsbury’s | 2000 | £3.39 | £6‚780.00 | | | | | TOTAL | | | £49‚300.00 | CASH HELD | | | £50‚700.00 | | | | | Original amount | | | £100‚000.00 | Profit/Loss | | | 0 | I will undertake
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Examining market efficiency in India: an empirical analysis of the Random Walk Hypothesis Alan Harper South University Zhenhu Jin Valparasio University ABSTRACT This study tries to determine whether the Indian stock market is efficient by examining if the stock returns follow a random walk. Following previous studies‚ we use autocorrelation‚ the Box-Ljung test statistics and the run test and find that the Indian stock market was not efficient in the weak form during the testing period.
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The financial markets of the United States‚ today‚ are collectively known as "Wall Street." These words represent the heart of the business and financial world in the United States today. Many of us conjure up well known images of companies being bought and sold‚ traders screaming out to get the best prices for their clients‚ fortunes won and lost many times over‚ and the billions of dollars exchanged in deals. Some may even claim that it is the "Crystal Ball" that can predict and control the
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