Category: Finance

Q1-What you know about the funds, which one do you think would be the best one for your investment?
Q2-Explain the characteristics of investing in real estate.

Answering these questions requires 600 to 800 words of text (excluding references), and references are required, and the company I need is Hershey.
Read the latest annual report, 10K, 10Q
Listen to the latest quarterly conference call, Earningscast.com
Morningstar, Yahoo Finance, CNBC and Marketwatch articles
What is the market size and growth rate of this industry?
Is the company’s growth rate higher than that of its industry and competitors?
Is the company gaining market share?
What are competitors’ growth rates, market shares, and profitability trends?
Are prices, volumes or services increasing? What are the cost trends and SGA trends?
Individual product lines: pricing vs. unit/subscriber/user growth?
Are the company’s profit margins higher than those of its competitors?
Are operating margins expanding or contracting?
What are the trends in working capital and capital expenditures?
Does the company need to increase investment in the future?
What you can expect:

Five questions (400 words a questions):
1:Look at the change in cash for AT&T between years 2016 and 2018. How and why did AT&T increase their cash balance so much in one year, and what event caused the cash balance to drop again in 2018? Were there any other accounts that changed because of this event? Be specific.
2:Compare and contrast the statement of cash flows for both companies. Choose two line items that stand out to you and talk about the similarities or differences between AT&T and Verizon for those line items. You might choose cash flow from operations, purchase/sale of equipment, issuance/payment of debt, dividend payments, etc
Depending on what line you choose, what does it say about each company’s level of growth, liquidity, investments, commitment to shareholders, etc. when compared to each other?
3:Compare each company’s revenue and profitability ratios. Which company is performing better from a revenue standpoint? Profitability? Why? Be specific.
4:Which company has a higher market and book value? Does it make sense why this company is valued higher? Explain.
5:Based on your analysis of AT&T and Verizon, which company is performing better financially? Which company is a better investment? Explain. Back up your opinion with financial data.

Five questions (400 words a questions):
1:Look at the change in cash for AT&T between years 2016 and 2018. How and why did AT&T increase their cash balance so much in one year, and what event caused the cash balance to drop again in 2018? Were there any other accounts that changed because of this event? Be specific.
2:Compare and contrast the statement of cash flows for both companies. Choose two line items that stand out to you and talk about the similarities or differences between AT&T and Verizon for those line items. You might choose cash flow from operations, purchase/sale of equipment, issuance/payment of debt, dividend payments, etc
Depending on what line you choose, what does it say about each company’s level of growth, liquidity, investments, commitment to shareholders, etc. when compared to each other?
3:Compare each company’s revenue and profitability ratios. Which company is performing better from a revenue standpoint? Profitability? Why? Be specific.
4:Which company has a higher market and book value? Does it make sense why this company is valued higher? Explain.
5:Based on your analysis of AT&T and Verizon, which company is performing better financially? Which company is a better investment? Explain. Back up your opinion with financial data.

Five questions (400 words a questions):
1:Look at the change in cash for AT&T between years 2016 and 2018. How and why did AT&T increase their cash balance so much in one year, and what event caused the cash balance to drop again in 2018? Were there any other accounts that changed because of this event? Be specific.
2:Compare and contrast the statement of cash flows for both companies. Choose two line items that stand out to you and talk about the similarities or differences between AT&T and Verizon for those line items. You might choose cash flow from operations, purchase/sale of equipment, issuance/payment of debt, dividend payments, etc
Depending on what line you choose, what does it say about each company’s level of growth, liquidity, investments, commitment to shareholders, etc. when compared to each other?
3:Compare each company’s revenue and profitability ratios. Which company is performing better from a revenue standpoint? Profitability? Why? Be specific.
4:Which company has a higher market and book value? Does it make sense why this company is valued higher? Explain.
5:Based on your analysis of AT&T and Verizon, which company is performing better financially? Which company is a better investment? Explain. Back up your opinion with financial data.

Five questions (400 words a questions):
1:Look at the change in cash for AT&T between years 2016 and 2018. How and why did AT&T increase their cash balance so much in one year, and what event caused the cash balance to drop again in 2018? Were there any other accounts that changed because of this event? Be specific.
2:Compare and contrast the statement of cash flows for both companies. Choose two line items that stand out to you and talk about the similarities or differences between AT&T and Verizon for those line items. You might choose cash flow from operations, purchase/sale of equipment, issuance/payment of debt, dividend payments, etc
Depending on what line you choose, what does it say about each company’s level of growth, liquidity, investments, commitment to shareholders, etc. when compared to each other?
3:Compare each company’s revenue and profitability ratios. Which company is performing better from a revenue standpoint? Profitability? Why? Be specific.
4:Which company has a higher market and book value? Does it make sense why this company is valued higher? Explain.
5:Based on your analysis of AT&T and Verizon, which company is performing better financially? Which company is a better investment? Explain. Back up your opinion with financial data.

You are required to prepare a one page (maximum) report, using as resources as the slides, book, AND additional research on the chosen topic (include KSA applications, regulations… if available)
(I attached the slides from ch14 which includes this topic)
and this is the textbook
Eun, Cheol, S., Bruce G. Resnick, and Tuggi Chuluun. International Financial Management, 10th edition, McGraw Hill, 2024.

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Take some 5 stocks from yahoo finance database
run correlation matrices, interpret the results
using the Eviews software, which we used in the class, run Granger causality and Vector Autoregression (VAR) and comment on how the underlying assets (stocks) affect each other.
Interpret the results in one or two pages and submit.
The attached file shows the data of stocks I chose. The time range is from April 2019 to April 2024.

1)Pick a country and compare how their corporate governance regime differs from that in Saudi. How does the governance regime affect the costs of doing business in
this country? What improvements would you recommend?
2)Pick two companies from the Saudi stock market and compare their corporate
governance structure.