Hi guys, I am trying to properly answer an accounting question concerning shares, bonds, and stock. I
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Hi guys, I am trying to properly answer an accounting question concerning shares, bonds, and stock. I was given two annual reports, and am asked to make a decision on one of the companies depending on a scenario and the companies respective reports. I will post the scenario description, the annual reports, and my solution so far. Here is the scenario description:
Scenario 1And the Winner Is: The will of a distant eclectic relative left you and your cousin as sole beneficiaries of an estate consisting of $500,000 in shares in Facebook, $500,000 in shares in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and $6,000,000 in bonds that will mature five years from now. The terms of the will stipulate that one of you will get all the Facebook shares, and the other will get all the AMD shares. When the bonds mature, they will be sold and the full proceeds from that sale will be given to the one of you two whose shares had been the most profitable investment. The will did not specify which one of you should get which shares. Instead, it required that the winner of a coin toss would get to select which shares to take. As luck woulds have it, you won the flip of the coin and get to choose which shares will be yours. To make the choice, your only resources are financial statements in the annual reports of the two companies. Make your choice and explain what information in the financial statements was particularly important for your decision.
My solution:
On making a choice onto which company to buy shares in, I considered the following major factors:
- Price and valuation
- Evaluation of financial health
- Evaluation of competitive sustainability
Table 1 ? Comparative Stock Statistics
Categories | Price (par value) | Price per share | Common Stock (millions) | Amount of Common Stock shares (as of 2014) | Amount of Outstanding Common Stock shares (as of 2014) | Cash flow from operations 2012 (millions) | Cash flow from operations 2012 (millions) |
| $0.000006 | $38.00 (May 2012) | $615 | 1,975,722,473 | 574,020,314 | $148 | $4,222 |
AMD | $0.01 | $4.08 (Jan., 2013) | $7 | 612,745,098 |
| $338 | $1,612 |
I am not completely done trying to answer this. I guess my main question is based on the scenario, what information from the annual reports can you extract to decide which company will be the most profitable investment, and which would you choose?
One figure I could not find was the common stock for facebook. I got 615 from the convertible preferred stock, although I think this is wrong
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