Find a public company listed on NYSE or NASDAQ. The stock should have a closing price above $10 from last year. You can get performance data from websites like finance.google.com, finance.yahoo.com, or morningstar.com. You can ignore any request for a subscription. The free data would suffice the project’s needs.

Project 1, Company Financial Analysis

1. Find a public company listed on NYSE or NASDAQ. The stock should have a closing price above $10 from last year. You can get performance data from websites like finance.google.com, finance.yahoo.com, or morningstar.com. You can ignore any request for a subscription. The free data would suffice the project’s needs.
2. Follow the guide in the appendix to collect financial data from www.morningstar.com (Links to an external site.). Instead of calculating the financial ratios, you can use the downloaded data file for analysis. Go to www.morningstar.com page for your stock –> Quote –> Key Ratios –> Full Key Ratios Data –> Export
3. Review and analyze the financial indicators and ratios in the following categories. Focus on how the financials change over time (for example, last two or three years) and the underlying business decisions and activities that cause the changes.
-Financials: Revenue, Net Income, Payout ratio %, Free cash flow, Working capital
-Key ratio -> Profitability: Gross margin, Net Margin %, Asset turnover, Return on Assets, Financial leverage, Return on Equity
-Key ratio -> Growth: 3, 5, 10-year Revenue %, Operating Income %, Net Income %
-Key ratio -> Cash Flow: Free cash flow / Sales %, Free cash flow/Net Income
-Key ratio -> Financial health: Total Current Assets, Total assets, Long-term debt, Total stockholders Equity
Liquidity/Financial Health: Current ratio, Quick ratio, Financial Leverage, D/E ratio
-Key ratio -> Efficiency Ratios: Receivables Turnover, Inventory Turnover, Fixed asset turnover, Asset turnover
4. Review at least two major financial decisions (investment, financing, dividend, or working capital management) by the company. Based on the above ratio analysis, explain
-Why the investment decisions above are necessary
For example, introducing a new product to raise the profit margin and profit.
-or how those investment decisions would improve the financial performance.
For example, the cost-cutting decision would increase the net profit margin and improve the financial profile.
5. Explain whether the change in financial ratios or the financial decisions can explain the stock performance.
For example, a decreasing Return on Equity could cause negative stock returns.
6. Based on the above analysis, comment on the investment value of the stock. In particular, shall we invest in the stock?

Requirement for submission.

-Organize your data and analysis into a research paper. You need to copy the data into the word file and add your analysis and comment.
-The written paper is to be typed, 1 margins, Times New Roman and 12-point font, with correct spelling and grammar, proper citation, references, with a cover page and organized with headings.

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