Sara Lee Equity Analysis and Valuation Valued at 1 April 1, 2007 Analysts: Todd L. Ehlers: todd.ehlers@ttu.edu Michael D. Estes: mikestes@sbcglobal.net Daniel W. Taylor: dtaylor1184@yahoo.com Joseph R. Torres: rhyno1112@sbcglobal.net Table of Contents Page Number Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………… 2 Analysis Snapshot............................................................................................ 2 Company and Industry Overview……………………………………………………………………
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Today, economists classify markets according to conditions that prevail in them. Economists group industries into four different market structures- perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopolies. With that being said it is important to emphasize these key points and explain further what they mean. The first market structure, perfect competition, is characterized by a large number of well-informed independent buyers and sellers that exchange identical products. It represents
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Abstract Present unit deals with the Concept of Market Structure which comprises of different market conditions under which the firms produce and sell products in the market. The unit also elaborates upon various Forms of Market Structure such as Perfect Market and * Imperfect Market (*Monopoly, Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly). The conditions and determination of price under various Forms of Market Structure have been discussed. The content based classroom activity has been suggested at the
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1) In monopolistic competition, there are a relatively large number of firms, not the thousands of firms as in pure competition. The monopolistically competitive firms produce differentiated products, not the standardized products of pure competition. Product differentiation means that monopolistic competitors engage in some price competition because they have some limited “price making” ability based on the less elastic demand for their particular product. This demand, however, is more elastic than
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Q1. Market Failure: is to do with not having enough resources to produce enough goods and services needed neither by the government nor by the society, as a result of this failure, the government develop a role to intervene in the economy in order to overcome these problems. 1. Public goods: According to the business dictionary, public good is an item whose consumption is not decided by the individual consumer but by the society as a whole; and which is financed by taxation. A public good or
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Each single firm must charge this price and cannot diverge from it. Equilibrium in perfect competition In the short run Under perfect competition, firms can make super-normal profits or losses. In the long run However, in the long run firms are attracted into the industry if the incumbent firms are making supernormal profits. This is because there are no barriers to entry and because there is perfect knowledge. The effect of this entry into the industry is to shift the industry supply curve
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time to time classified the various market structures on the basis of time, area and competition. Here we are going to see about Market Structures on the basis of Competition. On the basis of competition a market may be of following types. * Perfect Competition * Monopoly * Duopoly * Oligopoly * Monopolistic competition PERFECTLY COMPETITIVE MARKET In a Perfectly Competitive Market we have a large number of small firms producing identical products. As the number is large, each firm
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larger companies selling slightly different goods. Both a monopoly and oligopoly market structures only have a small number of competitors and still perform product differentiation, but they rarely compete on prices. It is also different form perfect competition, because it lacks a high level of efficiency though they share the characteristic that in the long-run equilibrium, organizations earn zero economic profits. The
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Market structure is defined by economists as the characteristics of the market. It can be organizational characteristics or competitive characteristics or any other features that can best describe a goods and services market. The major characteristics that economist have focused on in describing the market structures are the nature of competition and the mode of pricing in that market. Market structures can also be described as the number of firms in the market that produce identical goods and services
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Potential Entrants can be a threat to firms already competing in an industry, by entering that industry; new firms can take market share away from current competitors. Potential Entrants also pose a threat to existing competitors because they bring additional production capacity. If this additional production leads to over capacity in the industry, prices for consumers will be reduced but will cause lower returns for industry firms. The one positive outcome of new entrants is that it may force competing
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