FIN320-Macroeconomics& Industry Analysis,Equity Valuation

From the e-Activity, examine each industry’s price-earnings
ratio and dividend yield. Determine whether or not the differences make sense
in light of their different stages in the industry life cycle. Support your
position. (Go to Yahoo! Finance’s Website and review the price/book ratios for
Medical Instruments and Supplies (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/520.html) and for
Electric Utilities (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/911.html).

Choose an industry in which you are interested, and predict
its performance within the next three years. Provide support for your
prediction.

Justify the circumstances which are best suited for the
dividend discount model versus the free cashflow model to value a firm. Provide
an example of each.
Create an argument for using the multistage
dividend discount model for equity valuation. Provide support for your
argument.