Summary

The earnings per share of a company measures the amount of income earned for each share of stock, which is net income divided by shares of common stock outstanding. Earnings per share are abbreviated as EPS.

The earnings per share (EPS) for Ford for the most recent year shown on this page are (Note: TTM = trailing twelve months (the past 12 months) ______________________

The current price of Fords common stock is? _________on Date_____________

(Record the Last Trade price and the date you looked at it)

Profile

From the Profile Page, you can obtain a brief Business Description. There is also general contact information as well as links to several other items, such as the company web site.

From this page, answer the following questions about Ford:

1. What Industry is Ford in? __________________________________________

2. How many full-time employees work for Ford? ________________________

3. Who is the Chief Executive Officer? ____________________________________

4. Who is the Chief Financial Officer? ____________________________________

Historical Data

From this page, you can obtain daily, weekly, and monthly prices for the company for a range of dates. You can also obtain information on dividends. Select Time Period as 12/31/2018-12/31/2018, Show as Historical Prices, and Frequency as Daily to capture the historical price at the end of last year.

Look at the column listing the adjusted closing price (this price is adjusted for stock splits and stock dividends).

What was the adjusted Closing price of the company for 12/31/2018? _____________

How much money would you have made or lost from the price change if you had purchased one share of Ford stock on 12/31/2018 and sold it on the day you looked up the current price? ____________________________________________________

2^nd PART OF THE PROJECT

Financials

From this page, you can view the recent quarterly or annual financial statements of the company. In order to compare Ford to a close competitor we will use data for the quarter ending 12/31/2018.

Click on income statement or balance sheet of Ford as requested below. Then be sure you are viewing Quarterly Data. If you get Annual Data then switch to quarterly by clicking on the Quarterly Data link at the top.

Notice that all numbers are in thousands of dollars (for example 200,000 is really 200,000 x 1,000 or 200 million) but write them on your worksheet just as they are. If it says 200,000 just write 200,000.

Questions 1 through 16 pertain to Ford.

1. From the quarterly Income Statement, what was the total revenue for the quarter ending on 12/31/2018? _______________________________________

2. From the quarterly Income Statement, what was the total revenue for the previous quarter ending on 9/30/2018? _______________________________

3. Now use your answers of 1 and 2 to calculate the % growth in revenue for the quarter (subtract revenues for the quarter ending 9/30/2018 from revenues for the quarter ending 12/31/2018 and divide the result by the revenues for the quarter ending 9/30/2018. Then express the result as a percentage).

Revenue Growth = ________________________________________________

4. From the quarterly Income Statement, what was Net Income for the quarter ending on 12/31/2018? _________________________________________________

5. From the quarterly Income Statement, what was the Gross Profit for the quarter ending on 12/31/2018? _______________________________________________

6. From the quarterly Income Statement, what was the Cost of Revenue (cost of goods sold) for the quarter ending on 12/31/2018? _________________________

7. From the quarterly Balance Sheet, what was the value of inventory as of 12/31/2018? ________________________________________________________
8. From the quarterly Balance Sheet, what was the value of inventory as of 9/30/2018? ___________________________________________________________
10. From the quarterly Balance Sheet, what was the total assets value as of 12/31/2018? ___________________________________________
12. From the quarterly Balance Sheet, what was the total liabilities as of 12/31/2018?

13. _____________________________________________________________________

14. From the quarterly Balance Sheet, what was the total current assets value as of 12/31/2018? __________________________________________________________
16. From the quarterly Balance Sheet, what was the total current liabilities value as of 12/31/2018? _______________________________________________________

17. Use Quarterly data ending at 12/31/2018 to answer question 13 to 16.

18. The largest current asset category is: ____________________________________
20. The largest current liability category is: _________________________________
22. The largest non-current asset category is: _________________________________
24. The largest non-current liability category is: ______________________________