Blue Apron Summary

Boston Beer does not plan to pay a dividend. Returns from investing in Boston Beer will solely be from growth. The company plans to release 19 million shares in the IPO. At a price of $15 per share, it would be trading at over 57 times its 2004 earnings. This will require significant growth from Boston Beer in the coming years to realize returns in this investment. Boston Beer will be competing with a growing market for a small share of the overall US beer market.

During the Food INC. documentary Joel Salatin said, ¨If we put glass walls on all the mega-processing facilities, we would have a different food system in this country.” You may be questioning this statement just as I do. What does Joel mean? Is this accurate? What adjustment would happen if there was a greater amount of transparency within our food systems?

Days before the merger is made public, Begelman initiates a trade for 25K shares of Bluegreen stock

Our ending stock price at the end of year 2023 was $425.58, with the second highest stock price being Baldwin’s $159.81 (Appendix C).

As for Masterpieces claim that they had a right to delegate the duties to Build them

The development of new technologies, the rapid increase in the number of Internet users signal to the insurance business about the opportunities for expanding the client audience and building a new channel - online sales. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) a national family of health benefits companies currently actively use digital marketing. It allows the most recognizable provider in the healthcare insurance industry to hold positions. This Association unities 39 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, which together cover more than half of all commercially insured persons in the United States.

I read the article “Code Blue”, “Code Black”: What Does ‘Code’ Mean? which was about the different codes in a hospital and what kind of **predicaments** they can cause for the nursing staff. This message was created by Melissa Stöppler and was intended for anyone who finds an interest in understanding the codes of a hospital. Melissa uses an allusion at the beginning of the article by saying, “TV series like "Grey's Anatomy" and "Code Black" seem to have sparked an renewed interest in the topic of "Codes" in medicine.”(What is the "Code"?, Paragraph: 1) This makes people who have seen the shows think about the characters and the lingo of the hospital. The author uses some ethos when she goes on to define what a code red and code blue are. She uses some medical words such as cardiopulmonary arrest. She

After a brief review of this discussion lecture. I learned the BlueCross and BlueShield also offer Medicare benefits. BlueShield plans only covers physician’s charges and BlueCross only covers hospital charges. Although Medicare benefits are offered from BlueCross and BlueShield its only offered to people that are 65 years and old and to those who are under 65 years of age but suffers from disabilities like renal disease that requires long term care such as dialysis or a kidney transplant.

BBNY followed a niche strategy to create differentiation benefit over the competition. Founder’s strategic focus on creating good customer experience resulting in high productivity and decentralized BBNY store operations were some of the key reasons BBNY enjoyed high margins on its profit and low cost structure. Since BBNY went public in 1992, BBNY was a Wall Street’s darling stock and was favored by investors over other retail companies. BBNY stock was trading at $37 per share at the beginning of year 2004, an impressive 118% gain over its IPO price of $17 per share.

Market value per share = Book value per share = $12,000 / 750 shares = $16 per share

The first proposal was from Electra Networks. They aim to deliver phone services through the internet or VOIP. The company has projected a large market segment but the market is now saturated. They were able to raise capital through three rounds of financial funding. The company’s previous valuation was $125 Million but the current valuation was not presented. Also they have power house management team which has strategic alliances with other companies on the industry. Currently, they are anticipating for IPO.

In my opinion the Borden Foods will sell the company for above 30 million dollars based on the assets it has and the goodwill for the year ending 1996. However the Frito-Lay should only pay around 25 million dollars for acquisitions of the company.

Blue Apron represents a company that fits the AMDP investment standards. Since its founding, the company has raised tremendous amount of money from various investors, such as Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Stripes Group and etc. Mashable rated Blue Apron the 10 start-up to watch in 2015, along with Box, Uber and Snapchat. Blue Apron has always been the market leader and last estimated worth at least $2 billion, making it the latest member of “unicorns”, which refers to privately held companies with valuations of $1 billion or more. Its wonderful performance and increasing sales strongly suggest that AMDP should join the investors’ club.

The highest value per stock under my ownership is $64.74 per a share on January 17th, 2014. The lowest value per a stock is $30.30 as of May 24th, 2014.

Range of values per share is from $67 to $83 per share. This is in range of Greenhill's own calculations.