Investment Comapny Analysis

Company Analysis Assignment Finc 490 (Due 12/07/2020)

Select any one of the following companies and prepare an analysis of the firm’s financial position taking account of the following guidelines:

Choose any of the following companies:

· Solectron (Daidone)

· Xilinx Inc.(Connor)

· EOG Resources (Joe)

· Praxair (Vanessa)

· Equinix (Scott)

· Visteon (Ana)

· Vivus (Nicole)

· Ansys (Paonessa)

· Skyworks (Ariana)

· Acxiom (Mahnoor)

· Grifols (Mark)

· PVH Corp (Darden)

· Unum Group (Kiatlyn)

· TechnipFMC PLC (Anand)

· Vontier (Valeria)

· FLIR Systems Inc. (Agnieszka)

· Mohawk Industries (Ralph)

· IPG Photomics Corp

· DaVita Inc.

· Howmet Aerospace

· Pentair PLC

· Quanta Services Inc.

· Iron Mountain Inc.

· Lumen Technologies Inc.

· Concho Resources

· Packaging Corp. of America

· Avery Dennison Corp.

· ABIOMED Inc.

· Oneok Inc.

· Masco Corp.

· FMC Corporation

· DXC Technology

· NVR Inc

· Centerpoint Energy

· Catalent Inc.

· Steris Plc

· Keysight Technologies

· Fortive Corp.

· Fleetcor Technologies

· Ameren Corp.

· Vulcan Materials Corp.

· Welltower Inc.

· Corpart Inc.

· Align Technology Inc.

· Mettler-Toledo International Inc.

· Corteva Inc.

· Resmed Inc.

· TransDigm Group Inc.

· Aptiv PLC

· HIS Markit Ltd.

· Ball Corp.

· TE Connectivity Ltd.

· Cadence Design Systems Inc.

· Verisk Analytics Inc.

· iRobot Corp

· ServiceNOW Inc.

· Adaptimmune Therapeutics

· Hexindai Inc.

· CRISPR Therapeutics

· Danaher Corp.

· Equinix Inc.

· Canaan Inc.

· Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.

· Centene Corp.

· Dexcom Inc.

B. Outline:

· A maximum of five (5) pages

· Double spaced

· Cover should include the list of all members of the group

· Any evidence of plagiarized material in your report will result in an automatic ‘F’.

· Attach all referenced materials (e.g. internet web site and news paper references)

· Neatness and clarity will be rewarded

C. Content:

· Introduction and Background information of the firm. Talk about the nature of its business or primary product.

· Market position of the firm both locally and internationally.

· Briefly discuss any MAJOR recent moves by the firm.

· List and Graph the stock price of the firm from October 1st, 2020 to December 4th 2020. Note and explain significant changes in price from one day to the next. Note and briefly discuss any specific event that you believe may have caused those changes.

· Ratio Analysis; For each of the firms, obtain the following ratios for each of the five (5) years, compare to industry average and use them in your analysis;

1. Profitability Ratios

i. ROA

ii. ROE

2. Debt Management:

iii. Debt Ratio

3. Market Value:

iv. P/E Ratio

v. P/CSHFLOW

vi. PE/G Ratio

vii. EV/Sales

viii. EV/EBITDA

4. Asset Management vii. Total Asset Turnover (TATO)

5. Equity Valuation Models:

At least two models are to be used to determine the expected value of the stock. These should include the Free CashFlow Model(At least a 2 stage model)(Required for ALL students) plus at least one of the other models we covered in class.

a. Discounted Dividend Growth Model

b. The Price Ratio Models

c. Residual Income Model

d. Comparable Company Analysis (CCA)

· Discussion and Analysis: Discuss how the firms are doing compared to the industry with specific reference to a notable firm in that particular industry (e.g. Dream works and Pixar). In your analysis and discussions, answer whether you will own or short this stock and why (very important).

· Use the FCF Model and at least one of the other equity valuation models to reinforce your decision about the stock, i.e., whether to buy or short it.