I have an assignment I need help with.

As a manager, it is important to understand how decisions can be analyzed in terms of alternative courses of action and their likely impact on a firm's value. Thus, it is necessary to know how stock prices can be estimated before attempting to measure how a particular decision might affect a firm's market value.

To prepare for this Assignment, choose a publicly-traded company, and then estimate your company's common stock price, using one of the valuation models presented in the assigned readings or outside readings.

Defend your choice of model, and explain why it is appropriate to use for your company's stock. Be sure to explain how you arrived at any assumptions regarding values used in the model. Determine whether your company appears to be correctly valued, overvalued, or undervalued based on your company's stock current price and model result. Check Yahoo Finance for current stock prices. Finally, explain why your company's stock appears to be over-, under-, or correctly valued.

WHAT I KNOW:

I want to use the Gordon Growth model because it?s the model I think I understand the best. I think model assumes that the stocks are going to constantly grow over time because of stable growth rates.

The organization I have chosen to analyze is LinkedIn. Over the last five years, LinkedIn?s chart looks like the Himalayas and I know that it took a major fall a few months ago. Since it was bought out by Microsoft, I feel like it will do well in the future and continue to grow.

If it is abundantly clear that I have no idea what I am talking about, you are probably right, I hope you will point me in the right direction and give me guidance. If you feel that there is another model that will be better to use for LinkedIn, please feel free to use it, provide a brief explanation as to why and I will do the research to understand what you did and how you did it.

I have attached the company?s information as of today. This needs to be in an excel spreadsheet and I want to learn what all of this means. My source for the LinkedIn valuation and Market cap is https://ycharts.com/companies/LNKD/valuation retrieved on 07/21/2016. I honestly don?t know where to start or how to do stuff like this. Your help is deeply appreciated. If you feel that there is another model that would work better for this company, please let me know.

PLEASE DO NOT BID IF YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE ME WRONG ANSWERS. I am actually, really trying to learn this information and the last tutor I had provided incorrect calculations. I tried to study the chart provided but it didn?t make sense. When I received my grade, I realized why I couldn?t understand the work that was done. Your time is valuable to me and I appreciate your help. Thank you!