Team Company Analysis
Conduct research and describe the company, its operations,
locations, markets, and lines of business. Collect financial statements for the past three
years, fiscal or calendar.
• Financial Statements. Weblinks to most current income statement, balance sheet, and
cashflow statement.
• Ratio analysis. Perform trend and ratio analysis on current and fixed assets, current and
long-term liabilities, owner’s equity, sales revenues, EBIT, net income, and earnings per
share. Project these trends for three years.
• Stock price analysis. Research the company’s common stock price for the past five
years. Research the Standard & Poor’s Stock Market Index (S&P 500) for the past five
years. Chart the price movement in the company’s common stock against the S&P price
movement. State and support your opinion on the company’s common stock as an
investment today.
• Foreign operations. Select a company subsidiary or division operating outside of North
America and describe its operation, location, market(s), and line(s) of business, and how
they relate to the parent company’s operations. Compare the financial growth of the
parent company’s domestic operations with the growth of its overseas operations for the
past three years. If the company does not have foreign operations, discuss why the
company does not and/or why it should consider such expansion.