Finance

Project 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDA73Tbhbw

The purpose of this project is for you to develop skills to evaluate the financial information made available to us for all public corporations.

Your final assignment will be to write an evaluation of a company – your choice – that will be due final’s week. Until then we’ll do some exercises to help you find and accumulate the information you will need.

The evaluation will of course center on the company’s financial statements. Your goal will be to incorporate some of what we’ve covered – and will cover – into your analysis.

Where do we access the information? I offer the following choices but you are by no means limited to these options:

http://www.morningstar.com/

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks

http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp

http://finance.yahoo.com/

http://www.google.com/finance

using one of the sites above or one of your choosing:

Choose a public company that you think you want to analyze. Tell me what that company is.

Find the ticker symbol of that company. Usually from 1 to 4 letters. For example, Microsoft’s ticker symbol is MSFT. Tell me what the ticker symbol is?

I picked Ford Motor Company their ticker symbol F

Ford Motor Company – Annual Report

https://s22.q4cdn.com/857684434/files/doc_financials/2017/annual/Final-Annual-Report-2017.pdf

Tell me the company’s last closing price.

Tell me the company’s P/E ratio.

Tell me the company’s previous year’s earnings per share (EPS).

You need to use and talk about these financials in the paper and you can find these from that websites.