Corporate Investing: A Case Study on Disney
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Choose a stock from any company in any industry. Then visit Yahoo Finance at http://finance.yahoo.com/?u. Once there, enter the ticker symbol for your stock in the space provided so that you can be taken to pages where you will see a comprehensive set financial information- including the latest price- related to your company of choice. If you don't know your stock's symbol, click on "Symbol Lookup" to get the ticker symbol for your company. Once you see the financial pages, scroll down the page and observe the available information there.
1. What type of key financial information are available at the page you entered? Write 1 to 2 paragraphs describing what information can be obtained under each "hot link". In your write-up, make sure to click on the following "hot links" and describe what you saw:
Chart, Financials, Historical Prices, Industry, Insider, Profile, Reports, Research, and SEC Filings.
2. Aside from the key financial information, you will also see a set of accounting data. What is the significance of such data, if any at all, to the price of your stock? In answering this question, make sure you build upon what you learned in this unit about stock valuation.
3. Go back to the stock price, and based on your answer to the above question, attempt to see if you can justify the company's prevailing stock price reported on that page. What is your company's P/E ratio? What is the P/E ratio for its industry?
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Financial information, accounting data, and stock prices are analyzed.
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(1) Here in the first we can find complete information of Walt Disney Current position of its stock price. We can find its last traded price, trade time change in the price of stock since its previous close, previous closing price, opening price, the 1 year target estimate, the day range of stock price movement, 52 week range, volume traded, Average volume traded in 3 months, market capitalization, P/E ratio (ttm), EPS (ttm) and the dividend yield. We can find a small chart showing the movement of the stock price today. Along with this there are key financial statistics like forward P/E (1 year), price to sales ratio (P/S) (ttm) and ex dividend Date. There is a business summery of the company news headlines and financial ...
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- MBA, Indian Institute of Finance
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