Stock Analysis
Toyota Motor Corporation

The Toyota Motor Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells all varieties of cars, SUV’s, trucks, and the parts necessary for these vehicles. Along with this the company also runs financial services, which include financing and leasing (Forbes Financials, 2012). Along with the vehicle industry Toyota has also branched into designing, manufacturing, and sells the prefabricated houses. They also deal with the financing of this type of business as well. The corporation is based in Japan, but deals with areas of North America, Europe and Asia. Toyota is apart of the Consumer Goods Sector and the Major Auto Manufacturers Industry (Yahoo Financials, 2012).
The Toyota Motor Corporation is ranked in the top ten of their industries ratings by the market cap (Yahoo Financials, 2012). A market cap is considered to be the total value of the equity, or tradable shares (Brealey, Marcus, & Myers, 2012). The dividend yield of Toyota is ranked fifth out of the other companies in the Major Auto Manufacturers Industry, with a 1.2%, while the industry high is 3.2% (Yahoo Financials, 2012).
This manufacturing company has started the 2012 with great results. They have increase in sales and earnings in the first quarter. As Toyota does company in many areas of the world, the demand for their product has risen significantly in every area. To help with the strong results they are receiving the management team has been focusing on ways to cut cost in order to continue advancing (Value Line, Inc., 2012).
Toyota has been listed on the investment research and financial firm, Value Line. Value line ranks Toyota as a one in timeliness. Timeliness is how the price is going to perform for the next six to twelve months. This means that Toyota will more than likely perform in the top percentile compared to the other stocks