UNIVERSITY OF OREGON INVESTMENT GROUP 4-30-2010 Consumer Goods Rosetta Stone Inc. RECOMMENDATION: BUY Stock Data Price (52 weeks) Symbol/Exchange Beta Shares Outstanding Average daily volume (3 month average) Current market cap(M) Current Price Valuation (per share) DCF Analysis Comparables Analysis Current Price Target Price Summary Financials 2009A ($M) Revenue Net Income Operating Cash Flow $252 $13.4 $41.1 $16.06- 32.97 RST / NYSE .65 19.9 287,505 $569 $26.25 $31.88 (50% weight) $37.10
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0307-4358.htm Analysis of the effects of ESOP adoption on the company cost of capital Stoyu I. Ivanov Accounting and Finance Department, College of Business, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA, and ESOP adoption 173 Janis K. Zaima Accounting and Finance Department, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine
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publicly traded company that makes widgets. You’ve had a highly successful business so far and want to sell the company to anyone interested in buying it. How do you know how much to sell it for? Likewise, consider the Bank of America acquisition of Fleet. How did B of A decide how much it should pay to buy Fleet? For starters, you should understand that the value of a company is equal to the value of its assets, and that Value of Assets = Debt + Equity or Assets = D + E If I buy a company, I buy its
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customer management frameworks. The approach is especially well suited for business-to-business firms that serve market segments drawn from diverse sectors of the economy. Keywords: customer portfolio management, market-based assets, financial portfolio theory, return on marketing, market segmentation The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them…. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. (Engle 2004, p. 405) A lthough risk management is central
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1. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 1. Objectives of the study:- ➢ To study Mutual Fund Industry with specific reference to equity growth oriented schemes. ➢ To compare the performance of 5 open ended equity mutual fund schemes with various financial parameters like Treynor, Jenson and Sharpe Model. ➢ To assess the above-mentioned schemes in-depth and suggest the investors for the same. ➢ To assign ranks to the selected mutual fund schemes and suggest suitable scheme to the investors
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Marriot case Analysis 1, financial strategy According to the case, we noticed that Marriott Corporation intends to remain a premier growth company, to be the preferred employer, the preferred provider and the most profitable company. And in order to achieve these goals, it incorporated four main elements into its financial strategy. In our opinion, these elements are consistent with the financial strategy. First, Marriot sold its own hotel assets to limited partners but retain the operating
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The Concepts of Beta in the Stock Market Week Nine Research Paper Principles of Managerial Finance MGT3310 Instructor Wade Sherry Curtis “Beta is the measure of the volatility, or it can be a systematic risks of a security or portfolio that comparison to a market as a whole. Volatility is the amount of uncertainty or risk in the size of changes in a security's value. The higher the volatility means that the price of the security can change dramatically over a short time period in either
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Zeus Asset Management Inc Executive Summary Zeus Asset Management Inc is an asset management firm with more than $1.7 billion in asset under management. Zeus is well known for relationship-oriented that served both individual and institutional investors with the investment philosophy of believing that they could get a superior return over the long run using a conservative, risk-averse and quality-oriented approach. Zeus have been measuring it’s return in an absolute basis however Abbott demanded
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services company that operates a casual dining chain, with a particular focus on the premium pizza segment. In 1985 the California Pizza Kitchen was created by Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California.Rosenfield and Flax both hold the title of Co-President, Co-CEO, and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors for California Pizza Kitchen. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with 213 retail locations in the US and abroad. The operating profit of the company was $22 million
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confronting the company? Dixon Corporation planned to buy Collinsville plant from American Chemical Corporation for $12 million and another $2.25 million of installation cost of laminated electrodes. The problem is if Dixon should purchase the Collinsville plant with the laminated electrodes program based on the pro forma financial statements they conducted. (2) How did the problems arise? When American Chemical Corporation tried to buy the Universal Paper Corporation, Universal’s management sued that
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