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Corporation Profile Poster CHECKLIST and NOTE-TAKING SHEET
My corporation is: _________________________________________________ Stock Ticker:_________
I have completed the following sections:
______Corporate Identification Information
______Description of the Corporation
______Products of the Corporation OR Stores the Company Owns
______Information on the Stock’s Recent Performance
Corporation Identification Information
(8 Points)
Write your information in the boxes below
a. Name of Company
b. Stock Ticker Symbol
c. Address (of corporate headquarters) and
Official Website
d. Logo
Official Corporate
Website or Google Images
e. Traded on NYSE, NASDAQ, or AMEX?
f. Business Sector and Industry (Service,
Manufacturing, etc.)
g. Index Membership (if any) – for example:
S&P 500, S&P Mid Cap, etc.
h. Number of Employees
i. Revenue over the last fiscal year
j. Officers of the Company
i. Names and Titles of at least TWO
corporate executives
ii. Annual Pay of each (you do not
need to included information about
stock options exercised, but you can
included this information if you
would like)
Names of Officers
Annual Pay
k. Beta
Write the number AND a one sentence
description of what we can learn from this
number
l. Total Value of Corporation
# of shares __________________________
(be careful M means Millions)
Times value that the stock is trading at
_______________________= Total value
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Description of the Corporation (9 Points)
a. Paragraph of at least 3-5 sentences (THIS NEEDS TO BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS!!!) Use an
ACE paragraph for the question: What/how does this company produce?
i. History of Corporation/ Business Summary
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ii. Other companies it owns
iii. Competitors
a. You need at least a one-sentence explanation of why these companies are
competitors
COMPETITORS: ____________________________________________________________________
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Why these companies are competitors:
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Products of the Corporation (6 points)
a. For a corporation that makes a specific product:
i.
Pictures/actual items produced by the corporation
(minimum of 3). All items must be accompanied by labels
identifying the specific product pictured. (For example, if you
have a picture of a hamburger for McDonalds you need its
specific product name – “Big Mac”
ii.
ALL ITEMS/PICTURES MUST BE CLEARED WITH MRS.
CENNA. INCLUSION OF AN ITEM THAT HAS NOT BEEN
CLEARED WITH MRS. CENNA WILL RESULT IN A ZERO
FOR THIS PORTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT.
Official Corporate
Website or Google
Images or you can go
to the store itself
Use the space here to describe what pictures you wish to use. List the labels you will provide.
Information on the Stock’s Recent Performance (12 Points)
a. Graph to indicate recent performance
i.
minimum of last 6 months
ii.
You must TITLE it and LABEL the X-Axis and Y-Axis!!!!!!!!!! Come ask Mrs.Cenna if
you are unsure of what to label it.
X-Axis should be labeled _____________________________________________________________
Y-Axis should be labeled _____________________________________________________________
You can print and use the graph from Google Finance, but you MUST provide at least a TWOSENTENCE DESCRIPTION of your ANALYSIS of the graph – what does this information mean to
potential investors? Don’t forget to include this. Come see Mrs. Cenna if you need help.
ANALYSIS OF GRAPH:
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b. Statistics
i. 52-Week Range of Closing Values
of Stock (give DATES of range and
highest and lowest value)
ii. Dividends (list at least the most
recent one)
1. Were they paid to stock
holders? (if there are dates
listed then the dividends
WERE paid to stock holders
on those dates. The amount
listed is the amount of money
each shareholder received
for each share of stock that
they owned)
2. When?
3. How much?
c. ANALYSIS
i.
Using the information you learned on the “Strategies for Stock Selection” Worksheet,
compose a paragraph of at least 5 sentences describing your analysis of the value of
this corporation for investment. You need to identify the theory (or theories) that you
used and explain how you applied that theory. If you are not sure that your composed
paragraph meets the standard, please ask Mrs. Cenna to review your paragraph.
Your paragraph should be in ACE format. It should answer the question:
Is your corporation a good investment? You should have at least two Cs
and Es. One C and E must reference one theory from the Strategies WS.
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