Mini Equity Research Report [WLO: 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]

Many investment banks employ analysts to write equity research reports on public companies to advise their clients on their stock investments. In many cases, an initial equity research report is 20 to 50 pages long! For this class, you will focus on only three of the many important sections typically included in an equity research report. Thankfully, your Mini Equity Research Report will be much shorter than those published by investment banks!

In Week 1, you chose a publicly traded company to use throughout this class for the Mini Equity Research Report. In the first section of the Mini Equity Research Report, you evaluate the historical financial performance of the company (Week 1). In the second section of the Mini Equity Research Report, you evaluate the company’s performance using common financial ratios, and you compare the company to the competitor’s performance with the same financial ratios (Week 2). Finally, in Sections 3 and 4 of the report, you develop a value for the company’s stock and compare your value to the current market price of the stock (Weeks 3 and 4). Based on the analysis you present in these four sections, you will develop your recommendation to buy, hold, or sell the stock of this company.

It is very rare for one company to have only positive facts. Most companies have some good facts and some weak facts. In Sections 1 and 2 of the Mini Equity Research Report, you will analyze a variety of financial data for your selected company. As the equity analyst, it is your responsibility to combine the positive and negative facts into one recommendation (buy, hold, or sell). It is important to consider the importance of each fact and acknowledge that there is no perfect answer. Your recommendation should be based on the strength of the positive facts while recognizing the risks from the negative facts.

This week, you will write the introduction (including your stock recommendation) and the conclusion of the Mini Equity Research Report. In addition, you will revise the four sections from the first four weeks of class and combine them into this Mini Equity Research Report. Finally, you will submit your final Appendices A, B, C, and D with the Mini Equity Research Report.

Prepare:

Prior to beginning work on this final project,

• Complete the Week 5 – Learning Activity: Understanding Cost of Capital.
• Review the feedback you have received on your assignments throughout this course.
• Locate and revise (if necessary) all of your assignments from Weeks 1 through 4.

Write:

In your Mini Equity Research Report,

• Write an introduction. In your introduction, include the following:
  • State the name of the company and a brief description of what it does.
  • State the current market price per share and total market capitalization of the company.
  • State two key historical financial performance facts about your company (you can ascertain this information from your Week 1 – Assignment 3, Section 1: Financial Statement Analysis).
    • Categorize the overall financial performance as strong, neutral, or weak.
    • Justify your assessment based on the key facts.
  • Summarize (briefly) the ratio performance of the company.
    • Categorize the overall ratio performance as strong, neutral, or weak.
    • Justify your assessment based on the key facts.
  • Determine the valuation conclusion based on the constant growth formula in Week 4, using the required rate of return derived from the CAPM.
  • Determine your recommendation of buy, hold, or sell the stock of your chosen company.
• Include your revised Week 1 – Assignment 3, Section 1: Financial Statement Analysis.
• Include your revised Week 2 – Assignment 3, Section 2: Financial Ratio Analysis.
• Include your revised Week 3 – Assignment, Section 3: Dividend Analysis and Preliminary Valuation, Part 1: Dividend Analysis only
• Include your revised Week 4 – Assignment, Section 4: Valuation Conclusion.
• Write a conclusion. In your conclusion, include the following:
  • Summarize the analysis that was completed for the Mini Equity Research Report.
  • State your recommendation of buy, hold, or sell the stock of your chosen company.
  • Summarize the key facts supporting your recommendation, including your concluded stock price.
• Include Appendices A, B, C and D.

Submission Format:

You need submit a total of five documents to Waypoint:

• Mini Equity Research Report
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D

The Mini Equity Research Report,

• Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length including any tables or calculations (but not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of project in bold font
    • Space should be between title and the rest of the information on the title page.
  • Student’s name
  • Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Due date
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Writing Center resources.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications. For help citing the information from Mergent, see the BUS401: Principles of Finance Research Guide.

In a two to three
page paper (not including the cover page, abstract page and reference page),
discuss the following:

Please pick a terrorist attack found in today’s current events
and explain it in terms of one or more of the reasons listed in below:

• Prior conflicts
  among nation-states persist, and patience to resolve them is growing thin
  (e.g., the creation of Israel has resulted in ongoing tensions in the Middle
  East)

• The end of the
  Cold War resulted in resurgence of deep-seated ethnic or political rivalries (e.g.,
  Chechnya desires autonomy and independence from Russia)

• Western forms of
  economic development have not materialized in many nations around the world and
  poverty may be associated with terrorist activities (e.g., the poor nations
  fifty years ago are predominately the poor countries today and they are the
  breeding grounds for terrorist organizations)

• Citizens are
  frustrated with the harsh living conditions of dictatorship or the
  unresponsiveness of certain democratic governments (e.g., they desire political
  change and think that their needs are not being met in an expeditious manner)

• Some religious and
  social movements have become more extreme over time (e.g., fundamentalist
  Muslims and other interest groups want change now and are willing to promote it
  through violent behavior)

• US military power
  and involvement in Iraq has angered many Arabs (e.g., those in the Middle east
  view American presence as a new form of colonialism)

• It is extremely
  difficult for intelligence analysts to know who the “enemy” is (e.g., how can
  one pinpoint a terrorist when they often blend into the crowd?)

• Technology and
  education will allow terrorists to develop and use more sophisticated weapons
  (e.g., household chemicals can be used to make bombs)

• We cannot protect
  all of the potential targets that the terrorists could attack (e.g., government
  buildings, ports, shopping malls, schools)

• Training and preparedness
  for terrorism response is inadequate (e.g., we do not know enough about how to
  deal with poisonous substances used by terrorists)

Your paper must be
formatted in accordance with APA guidelines.

Must use at least 2 references.

Textbook: McEntire, D. A. (2008). Introduction to Homeland
Security with an Emergency Management Perspective.Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &
Sons ISBN: 978-0470127520

Previously you completed a list of ethical issues currently trending in your field. Now it is time to put on your “creative hat” and come up with your own ethical issues. Again, utilizing the spectrum of business that your company falls under research and or formulate ethical situations that may not currently be plaguing the field but that are of high concern and must be addressed.

Please write a 2-3 page paper, using proper APA Formatting and including each of the minimum of three ethical issues that are not currently trending. For each issue you are asked to identify and summarize the ethical concern itself and subsequently analyze the concern and what troubles it may bring to the company, the employee or both.

2 Previous assignments included in attachments. Please use them as reference .

Write a 1,200-1,500-word essay that describes the characteristics and roles you hope to embody as a counselor and the counselor dispositions that you want to bring with you. You may write in the first person for this assignment. Include the following in your paper:

1. Your role as the therapist in the counseling process within community and private mental health systems
2. Refer to the Counselor Dispositions. Which of these dispositions will you incorporate into the counseling relationship and how?
3. Counseling skills you plan to practice for building rapport with clients

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

This assignment meets the following CACREP Standards:

2.F.5.f. Counselor characteristics and behaviors that influence the counseling process.

2.F.5.g. Essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills.

5.C.3.d. Strategies for interfacing with integrated behavioral health care professionals.

5.C.3.e. Strategies to advocate for persons with mental health issues,

Answer the
question or explain the keywords related in managing business ethics! It is
better to have examples about the keywords.

No plagiarism!
Using simple vocabulary is enough. Each questions about 100-150 words.

1.  Prescriptive
approaches to ethical decision
making-Deontological approach, Consequentialist approach

2.  Ethical
decision-making style, individual differences and ethical judgment and behavior

3.  Formal
and informal systems in organizations to resolve ethical concerns

4.  Strategies
on how to improve and change the ethical culture of an organization

5.  How
to handle and improve ethics communication in an organization

6.  How
rewards and goals impact ethical and unethical behavior and strategies to
address them

7.  How
group norms can rationalize unethical behavior and strategies to address them