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Scenario: As a new junior analyst for a large brokerage firm, you are excited to demonstrate the skills you learned in college and prove that you are worth your attractive salary. Your first assignment is to analyze a publicly traded stock.
Quetsion 1: Your boss recommends determining prices based on both the discounted free cash flow valuation method and the comparable P/E ratio method. You are a little concerned about your boss's recommendation because your finance professor explained that these two valuation methods can result in widely differing estimates when applied to real data. You are really hoping the two methods will reach similar prices. Good luck with that! (Berk Demarzo Harford 2018, Chapter 10 Data case)
Quetsion 2: Your analysis consists of looking up published information on your company: either provided by the company directly, or from information made public by professional analysts and an analysis of that data. Your ultimate goal is to determine a market stock price for your firm using your understanding of the firm's current financial position, it's growth expectations, and a forecast of what you think it's future value will be at the end of the Q1 2020 (March 31, 2020).
1. Choose a public company.
- Corporation must be a publicly traded firm on a US stock exchange: Limited to the NYSE and NASDAQ stock exchanges.
- The first letter of the company name must be the same initial as one of your names (first, middle, surname including hyphenated names). For instance, the instructor could choose DISH Network Company {Nasdaq: DISH}, or Macy's Inc. {NYSE: M}.
2. Use online resources to obtain your company's financial and performance data to develop your analysis. You may also source professional analyst information for different analysis variables. However, you must reference where your information is sourced from. If you did not create an analysis variable, give credit to the author.