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‚ increasing competition in the hardware segment is
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Cost reduction Generally defined as the act of cutting costs to improve profitability. Cost reduction‚ should therefore‚ not be confused with cost saving and cost control. Cost saving could be a temporary affair and may be at the cost of quality. Cost reduction implies the retention of essential characteristics and quality of the product and thus it must be confined to permanent and genuine savings in the costs of manufacture‚ administration‚ distribution and selling‚ brought about by elimination
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Interview questions for capital market & NSE What is capital Market? Capital market is a market of securities. Where a company and government raise long term funds. it is a market where money invested more them one year. In this we include the stock market and bond market Definition of ’Debt’ An amount of money borrowed by one party from another. Many corporations/individuals use debt as a method for making large purchases that they could not afford under normal circumstances. A debt
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Inspite of having a very rewarding time in my career‚ I still feel that there a lot of things which I should instill in me. To satisfy my desire for success‚ I believe I should be a complete package and for which‚ I should continue my quest for knowledge. After gaining a substantial experience in business world‚ to leverage on this strong foundation to pursue an MBA is the next logical step. I am very excited to learn the diverse facets of management and their interdependencies to operate as
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The Stock Market Crash was the one of the most substantial events to happen in America during the 1930’s and in all of American History. “The Great Crash”‚ as it is called by many‚ changed the way American stock market was run and the American way of life. This pushed new rules and regulations to be put into place that we could not do without today. The Stock Market crashed eighty percent in less than two weeks‚ leaving most stocks worth nearly nothing of what they used to be worth. The stocks fell
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the these three stocks: Answer: B‚ B;A 2. Your friend is considering adding one additional stock to a 3-stock portfolio‚ to form a 4-stock portfolio. She is highly risk averse and has asked for your advice. The three stocks currently held all have b = 1.0‚ and they are perfectly positively correlated with the market. Potential new Stocks A and B both have expected returns of 15%‚ are in equilibrium‚ and are equally correlated with the market‚ with r = 0.75. However‚ Stock A’s standard deviation
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Abstract: We are five members work in a group on Employers preferred competencies in business graduate recruitment. For our analysis we select the banking industries in Bangladesh. So‚ for this analysis we collect the primary and secondary data from different bank and analysis those data. After analyzing those raw data‚ we find that the employers especially the banking industries are preferred competencies the business graduate recruitment. They are given more importance in the employees’
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Cost of Capital Firms need to make capital investment i.e.‚ purchasing fixed assets such as factories‚ machineries‚ equipment‚ etc. After deciding what capital investments to make‚ they need to decide on the financing – sources of capital. The sources: Long-Term Debt‚ Common Stock‚ Preferred Stock and Retained Earnings. Then they need to find the cost of obtaining each source of financing today (not historical). Cost of Capital - The rate of return that a firm must earn on its investment
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What’s your real cost of capital? By James J. McNulty‚ Tony D. Yeh‚ William s. Schulze‚ and Michael H. Lubatkin Harvard Business Review‚ October 2002 Issue of the article: valuing investment projects Number of pages: 12 Daniel Miravet Campos Part 1. Executive summary This article is fundamentally based on the exposition of a new method to calculate the cost of capital for a company (MCPM)‚ to meet the inefficiencies of the current one (CAPM). In valuing any investment project or
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Cost of debt When individuals use the cost of debt‚ they should know the measurement of the interest rate‚ or the yield paid to the bondholders. When analyzing the cost of debt‚ people should know that it ’s an effective rate that businesses are willing to pay on the current debt that they have accrued. The cost of debt is a measurement of the before or after tax returns. Considering the case that individuals can deduct the interest‚ makes the tax after cost more popular than the before tax. A business
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