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required to pick 5 large cap stocks from a major stock exchange on a spreadsheet record the closing price of the stock for friday as well as any other important tracking information such as stock symbol stock exchange number of shares purchase

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Assume that you have $1,000,000. You will use this to form a hypothetical large-cap (each with

at least $10 Billion in Market Capitalization) diversified stock portfolio by investing it in five

stocks chosen from five different industries. Be sure to pick companies that pay dividends. No

short sales, fractional shares, or margin trades are permitted. To determine how much you have

invested in any particular stock, multiply the stock price by the number of shares you buy. You

must use at least $900,000. Any funds left over will be held as cash, earning no interest. Dividends

and other cash distributions will be added to cash, not reinvested.

Deliverable:

1. Spreadsheet that includes the number of shares you purchased for each stock and the

closing prices as of the Friday of Week 1, May 10, of your stocks. Report the last dividend

paid date and amount as well as the expected next ex-dividend and paid dates. Also,

include your total investment and the amount held in cash. To get stock price information,

go to www.google.com or www.yahoo.com and click on “Finance.” Enter the ticker

symbol of your stock and click on historical prices. Use the column that contains closing

prices.

2. Conduct an analysis of the stocks, telling me why you chose these particular stocks based

on your analysis. The analysis (3 pages plus spreadsheets) should include the

following:

a) Give a brief history of the companies and their products. Briefly discuss where the

company is heading (new products, ventures). Identify who each company’s competitors

are and what each company’s ranking is amongst its competitors.

b) Find the reported beta and the adjusted beta of the companies, calculating the other if only

one is reported. Report your source and describe how they calculated the betas including

frequency of observations, as methods vary. Explain what the beta tells you about each

company.

c) What is the beta of your initial portfolio?

 
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