Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this final project, Complete the Week 5 – Le

Prepare:
Prior to beginning work on this final project,
Complete the Week 5 – Learning Activity: Understanding Cost of Capital.
Review the feedback you have received on your assignments throughout this course.
Locate and revise (if necessary) all of your assignments from Weeks 1 through 4.
Write:
In your Mini Equity Research Report,
Write an introduction. In your introduction, include the following:
State the name of the company and a brief description of what it does.
State the current market price per share and total market capitalization of the company.
State two key historical financial performance facts about your company (you can ascertain this information from your Week 1 – Assignment 3, Section 1: Financial Statement Analysis).
Categorize the overall financial performance as strong, neutral, or weak.
Justify your assessment based on the key facts.
Summarize (briefly) the ratio performance of the company.
Categorize the overall ratio performance as strong, neutral, or weak.
Justify your assessment based on the key facts.
Determine the valuation conclusion based on the constant growth formula in Week 4, using the required rate of return derived from the CAPM.
Determine your recommendation of buy, hold, or sell the stock of your chosen company.
Include your revised Week 1 – Assignment 3, Section 1: Financial Statement Analysis.
Include your revised Week 2 – Assignment 3, Section 2: Financial Ratio Analysis.
Include your revised Week 3 – Assignment, Section 3: Dividend Analysis and Preliminary Valuation, Part 1: Dividend Analysis only
Include your revised Week 4 – Assignment, Section 4: Valuation Conclusion.
Write a conclusion. In your conclusion, include the following:
Summarize the analysis that was completed for the Mini Equity Research Report.
State your recommendation of buy, hold, or sell the stock of your chosen company.
Summarize the key facts supporting your recommendation, including your concluded stock price.
Include Appendices A, B, C and D.
Submission Format:
You need submit a total of five documents to Waypoint:
Mini Equity Research Report
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
The Mini Equity Research Report,
Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length including any tables or calculations (but not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of project in bold font
Space should be between title and the rest of the information on the title page.
Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications. For help citing the information from Mergent, see the BUS401: Principles of Finance Research Guide.