Financial Comparison Summary
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You will be gathering and reporting information on three publiccompanies in the same industry. As in the first discussion assignment,DO NOT CHOOSE a company in the Financial Sector such as a bank(commercial or investment). For financial information, you will be usinghttp://finance.yahoo.com. When you get to the website, you can input acompany’s name or the stock symbol to get to the company page. It isokay to use the same two companies that you used in Assignment #1 butyou need to add another company in the same industry. 1. For each of thethree companies, you are to collect the following and make one tablefor all three companies (all can be found by clicking on the Statisticsonce you are on a company page: a) Beta b) Dividend Yield (Use 5-yearaverage Dividend Yield) You do not have to calculate it. It is reportedon the Statistics page. c) P/E ratio (Trailing) [So none of the abovehave to be calculated] 2. Make sure to identify the industry in whichthe company operates. The industry is NOT the same as the sector. On thecompany Summary page, you can find the industry on the right side lowon the page. 3. Write approximately 1 pages on how all threecompanies’ measures compare to each competitor. This will include themeaning of each measure. For example, if a company has a beta of 0.60,it means that when the average market return has moved up 1%, thecompany stock’s return moved up only 60% of 1%. Likewise, if the overallmarket moved down 1%, the company stock’s return moved down only 60% ofthe way. It is less volatile than the average stock in the market.Likewise for each company’s dividend yield and P/E ratio, include adiscussion of its meaning and comparison.
