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Assignment: Financial Market Shareholder Analysis
Wal-Mart's financial reports are used for various reasons, including determining how the company is doing in the financial market. Decide to evaluate the effects of economic and market conditions on Wal-Mart. Completing this exercise provides you with financial market research to present to your management team to inspire new KPIs and policies.
Task
Use the previous years data.
Write a 2 pages shareholder analysis in which you address the following:
A. Evaluate economic conditions that influence company performance. Consider political, environmental, currency (money), global economics, and government influences on economic conditions.
B. Compare market conditions from the previous year with the company's performance for that same year. Conclude how the market conditions that year influenced the company's performance, such as interest rates, Federal Reserve Bank monetary policy changes, or other market conditions relevant to the company you selected.
C. Analyze year-over-year performance from the past three years (2021, 2022, & 2023). Provide the 2021, 2022, and 2023 trailing PE ratio, forward PE ratio, price to book, return on assets, and return on equity.