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Data Case for Chapter 2: Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
This is your second interview with a prestigious brokerage firm for a job as an equity analyst. You survived the morning interviews with the department manager and the Vice President of Equity. Everything has gone so well that they want to test your ability as an analyst. You are seated in a room with a computer and a list with the names of two companies—Ford (F) and Microsoft (MSFT). You have 90 minutes to complete the following tasks:
1) Download the annual income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements for the last four fiscal years from MarketWatch (www.marketwatch.com). Enter each company’s stock symbol and then go to “financials.” Export the statements to Excel by right-clicking while the cursor is inside each statement.
2) Find historical stock prices for each firm from Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com). Enter your stock symbol, click “Historical Prices” in the left column, and enter the proper date range to cover the last day of the month corresponding to the date of each financial statement. Use the closing stock prices (not the adjusted close). To calculate the firm’s market capitalization at each date, we multiply the number of shares outstanding (see “Basic Weighted Shares Outstanding” on the income statement) by the firm’s historic stock price.
3) For each of the four years of statements, compute the following ratios for each firm:
4) Obtain industry averages for each firm from Reuters.com (http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks). Enter the stock symbol on top of the page in the “Symbol lookup” and then click the “Ratios” button.
5) Examine the Market-to-Book ratios you calculated for each firm. Which, if any, of the two firms can be considered “growth firms” and which, if any, can be considered “value firms”?
6) Compare the valuation ratios across the two firms. How do you interpret the difference between them?
7) Consider the enterprise value of each firm for each of the four years. How have the values of each firm changed over the time period?
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