Project Outline Return on total assets Return on common equity Price/earnings ratio Market/book ratio Choose a publicly traded company that interests you. If you don't know how to choose a company, think of Facebook, IBM, DELL computer, Nike, Apple computer, GM, Ford, Nokia, Home Depot, Twitter, and on and on. Think of the companies that make things you use everyday. Choose one from them. The final report should include a chart of monthly stock price movements described in part A and the financial ratios in part B above. Part A Go to COMPUSTAT Research Insights, Reuter's, Thomson Financial Service, or Bloomberg Financial (E-Trade Financial Learning Center has them all) or any other financial database such as Yahoo Finance to download the historical closing prices (five years) of your company on the monthly basis (twelve data points a year). Write a report to explain what you did for Part A and Part B. Based on the materials provided in the annual report and business news from The Wall Street Journal, as well as the financial information from any other sources, such as Datastream. Reuters. Bloomberg Financial, or Yahoo Finance, explain as much as you can the movement of your stock during the last twelve months. Your report should start with a description of the business and the status of financial condition such as Line of business, Competitive positions, and Profitability History (going back five years). Do not turn in a sloppy, rapidly completed report. All papers should have a title page, a table of contents, a statement of purpose (or Introduction), footnotes or endnotes, or a bibliography or reference. The due date for submitting your project is the last date of the class. You will use Assignment manager to submit your project. As for the number of pages, there is no required page length. Remember that I will prefer to see a project that's clear and to the point with fewer number of pages. Apple Inc. AAPL Apr 12, 2013 800 600 500 400 300 To submit your paper, go to "Assignments then "Project Submission." Please copy and paste the graph file to the word file. 200 Note: Turnitin Assignment Service on Blackboard will be to evaluate your paper submission. If Turnitin evaluation indicates 75% or more of the text in your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database, then your paper will automatically receive a grade of zero. Please make sure you will document the secondary sources in your paper to prevent plagiarism. 100 Yahool 78 Jan 09 Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan 12 Jan 13 1 Skills to Learn from this project: Financial data colleting, analysis, and presentation. Part B. Based on the financial statements of the latest available annual report, calculate the following financial ratios using only one year data. If the ratios are not available, please explain why. For example, Citibank doesn't have inventory because it's a financial company. (Please show your calculation) Current ratio Quick ratio Fixed assets turnover Total assets turnover Total debt to total assets Profit margin on sales Project Outline Return on total assets Return on common equity Price/earnings ratio Market/book ratio Choose a publicly traded company that interests you. If you don't know how to choose a company, think of Facebook, IBM, DELL computer, Nike, Apple computer, GM, Ford, Nokia, Home Depot, Twitter, and on and on. Think of the companies that make things you use everyday. Choose one from them. The final report should include a chart of monthly stock price movements described in part A and the financial ratios in part B above. Part A Go to COMPUSTAT Research Insights, Reuter's, Thomson Financial Service, or Bloomberg Financial (E-Trade Financial Learning Center has them all) or any other financial database such as Yahoo Finance to download the historical closing prices (five years) of your company on the monthly basis (twelve data points a year). Write a report to explain what you did for Part A and Part B. Based on the materials provided in the annual report and business news from The Wall Street Journal, as well as the financial information from any other sources, such as Datastream. Reuters. Bloomberg Financial, or Yahoo Finance, explain as much as you can the movement of your stock during the last twelve months. Your report should start with a description of the business and the status of financial condition such as Line of business, Competitive positions, and Profitability History (going back five years). Do not turn in a sloppy, rapidly completed report. All papers should have a title page, a table of contents, a statement of purpose (or Introduction), footnotes or endnotes, or a bibliography or reference. The due date for submitting your project is the last date of the class. You will use Assignment manager to submit your project. As for the number of pages, there is no required page length. Remember that I will prefer to see a project that's clear and to the point with fewer number of pages. Apple Inc. AAPL Apr 12, 2013 800 600 500 400 300 To submit your paper, go to "Assignments then "Project Submission." Please copy and paste the graph file to the word file. 200 Note: Turnitin Assignment Service on Blackboard will be to evaluate your paper submission. If Turnitin evaluation indicates 75% or more of the text in your paper matches something already in the Turnitin database, then your paper will automatically receive a grade of zero. Please make sure you will document the secondary sources in your paper to prevent plagiarism. 100 Yahool 78 Jan 09 Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan 12 Jan 13 1 Skills to Learn from this project: Financial data colleting, analysis, and presentation. Part B. Based on the financial statements of the latest available annual report, calculate the following financial ratios using only one year data. If the ratios are not available, please explain why. For example, Citibank doesn't have inventory because it's a financial company. (Please show your calculation) Current ratio Quick ratio Fixed assets turnover Total assets turnover Total debt to total assets Profit margin on sales