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Strayer University Apple Inc Financial Research Report
This is the following information requested in this order.
Assignment 1: Financial Research Report
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Introduction
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Provide a brief overview of the information to be provided in the report, including your professional position and company (equity) selected.
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Rationale for Stock Selection
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Provide an overview of the company’s:
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Client Profile
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Provide a brief description of the client, enabling you to support stock (equity) selection. Be careful that your description matches the risk level of the stock (equity) chosen.
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Ratio Analysis
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Identify five (5) financial ratios over the last three (3) years
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- Apply trend analysis (last 3 years) to discuss the changes of each ratio.
- Discuss the positive and negative influences of each ratio.
- Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
- Provide information of the potential risks associated with the following:
- Macroeconomic risks: Domestic economy
- Firm specific risks
- Client risks (ex. employment loss, health, etc)
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*If possible, compare each ratio to the industry average (not required).
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Risk Reduction Recommendations
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Based on your findings from the ratio analysis and the risk structure identified by your client provide the following information (Don’t assume there is no risk):
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- Provide alternatives to reduce risks described above (example include but not limited to)
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Recommendation of Stock to Client
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This is your chance to really sell company (stock) to client. This is your conclusion and
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recap of what you have already stated. Make sure support your rational with resources such as peer reviewed articles and/or material from Strayer Learning Resource Center as well as reviews by market analyst. *Proper references and citations go a long way*
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References
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Be sure to cite all sources and provide a minimum of five (5) quality, academic resources (ex. Wikipedia is NOT an academic resource). Be sure to include in-text cites and apply appropriate format.
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The following cite provides examples of APA format: http://www.apastyle.org/
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You may use APA or SWS, which ever you are most comfortable with. However, you must still use academic resources. You must have at-least 5 sources total.