Shardena Perry Tiffin University MGT 506 Week 7 Assignment October 9‚ 2014 From NASDAQ‚ my chosen stock is AAPL‚ which is the symbol for Apple Inc. “ Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino‚ California‚ Apple designs‚ develops‚ and sells consumer electronics‚ software‚ online services‚ and personal computers. “(Apple.com) Apple’s most successful items have been the Mac computer‚ the iPod‚ and iPhone Apple was founded on April 1‚ 1976
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Allie measured her foot and it was 21cm long‚ and then she measured her Mother’s foot‚ and it was 24cm long. "I must have big feet‚ my foot is nearly as long as my Mom’s!" But then she thought to measure heights‚ and found she is 133cm tall‚ and her Mom is 152cm tall. In a table this is: Allie Mom Length of Foot: 21cm 24cm Height: 133cm 152cm The "foot-to-height" ratio in fraction style is: Allie: 21 133 Mom: 24 152 So the ratio for Allie is 21 : 133 By dividing both values by 7 we get 21/7
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invest USD 100‚000 in the stock market and manage my portfolio throughout the semester. MY INVESTMENT STRATEGY My strategy was to invest in large companies with a reputation for quality‚ reliability and profitability (blue chips). Furthermore‚ I decided to invest a large amount of my capital in Swiss companies in order to support Swiss economy. I chose Kuoni because the company has leading positions in its area of activity (travel) and sustainable profitable growth. The shares of Kuoni are listed since
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launched an innovative campaign‚ “Share a Coke”. The company chose 150 of Australia’s most popular names and put them on the front of millions of Coca-Cola bottles (Lionbridge‚ n.d.). This is the first time in its 125-year history that Coca-Cola has made such a major change to it packaging. Later on‚ this simple idea then expanded to countries around the world‚ including New Zealand‚ the U.K.‚ Norway‚ Ireland and China. Other countries adapted Australian "Share a Coke" campaign into their own unique
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With Preferred stock‚ there are of a variety of features that can be added to in order to either increase its attractiveness to investors‚ or to make it easier for the issuing company to buy back. Some company uses this to gain access to cash fast and they can control their payback. Preferred stock can have a lot of features add to it but here are the four major categories they will fall into: Callable this feature gives a company the ability to buy back preferred stock on specific dates and at
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Preferred Stock is referred to as preferred‚ because there is a higher claim against the stock than common stocks. There is a difference from preferred stocks and common stock when it comes to their dividends and liquidation. A preferred stockholder would receive their dividends sooner than common stockholders. This makes it so that if a preferred stockholder were to decide to opt out of paying their dividends than the common stock will not have a dividend. “The best way to think of preferred stock is as
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Market Structure o Perfect (pure) competition Price–taking firms each with no influence over the ruling market price (see diagram below) Free entry and exist of businesses in the long run – drives down profits towards a normal profit equilibrium level Each supplier produces homogeneous products – each a perfect substitute – hence the perfectly elastic demand curve for the individual supplier Key factor - interdependent nature of pricing decisions between rival firms Each firm must consider
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A stock market or equity market is a public entity (a loose network of economic transactions‚ not a physical facility or discrete entity) for the trading of company stock (shares) and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. The size of the world stock market was estimated at about $36.6 trillion at the beginning of October 2008.[1] The total world derivatives market has been estimated at about $791 trillion face or nominal
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Chapter 10 Stocks and Their Valuation Learning Objectives Solutions to End-of-Chapter Problems 10-1 D0 = $1.25; g1-3 = 6%; gn = 4%; D1 through D5 = ? D1 = D0(1 + g1) = $1.25(1.06) = $1.3250. D2 = D0(1 + g1)(1 + g2) = $1.25(1.06)2 = $1.4045. D3 = D0(1 + g1)(1 + g2)(1 + g3) = $1.25(1.06)3 = $1.4888. D4 = D0(1 + g1)(1 + g2)(1 + g3)(1 + gn) = $1.25(1.06)3(1.04) = $1.5483. D5 = D0(1 + g1)(1 + g2)(1 + g3)(1 + gn)2 = $1.25(1.06)3(1.04)2 = $1.6103. 10-2 = $1.35/(12%
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Stock Case: Dow 30 Case How do you create a diversified stock portfolio? Introduction Our goal was to create an optimal diversified portfolio consisting of the Dow Jones Index. We used the modern portfolio theory which maximizes expected portfolio return for the amount of risk taken by taking the stock weights in to consideration. Our group consisted of risk averse investors; therefore we diversified our portfolio with all 30 Dow Jones stocks because we wanted to achieve an acceptable return
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