Stock Market

Dick’s Sporting Goods has had reputable equitability consistently throughout the years. Investors have been able to regularly earn a respectable return on their investments. However, some of the valuation metrics of Dick’s Sporting Goods are slightly troublesome. The price to earnings ratio, which is one of the most commonly used gauge of valuing equity securities, has decreased over the last 3 years and recently decreased 24% compared to the previous year, while their earnings per share has increased every year with the exception of the current year where it decreased minimally. This indicates that the market is lessening their expectations of the company. Another commonly used measure is the price to cash flow which eliminates the manipulation that is possible with net income that is used in the price to earnings ratio. This ratio also has decreased recently, thus also indicating a lessening in expectations in the market.

What did Enron buy and sell? Electricity? Natural gas? The corporation created a market in energy, gambled in it and manipulated it. It moved on into other futures markets, even seriously considering "trading weather." At one point, we learn, its gambling traders lost the entire company in bad trades, and covered their losses by hiding the news and producing phony profit reports that drove the share price even higher. Enron was a corporation devoted to maintaining a high share price at any cost. How Wall Street and the bankers wanted to investigate if they are the first to get profit from all that.

If the company did go public, its share price should be $384.37 for per share with the rapid growth scenario.

* In 2005, the profit was approximately ($144,000 / $5,500,000) 2.6% of sales; does this number indicate whether the company is doing well or not?

Enron was one of the largest corporations in the United States. Enron was reporting revenues of over $100 billion, and its stock was being sold for $80 a share (Goethals, Sorenson, & Burns, 2004). However, it was using shady and unethical business practices, such as listing inflating its revenue and hiding debts in special purpose entities. Eventually, their faulty accounting caught up with them, and their market share plummeted. This was credited as one of the worst auditing failures.

This chart from the site “Chaos of Business” shows the large decline of the Enron stock when it was being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. People who had shares of the stock had lost almost all of their money they invested into the company. This chart shows that the share price dropped from $84 per share to $0.01 per share in about ten months. It seems like not a big deal, but in reality people usually buy hundreds of shares in a company, so that loss of $84 can calculate to about $25,200 if a person has 300 shares lost. This chart shows how quickly the money was lost and how badly it affected the people who owned shares of Enron.

The stock market in the United States is run so anyone can view the trades, their values and no information is hidden. Compared to the stock market, the bond market is run behind closed doors causing problems in the economy. The difference between the two markets became more understood during the Great Recession. When the unethical ways of individuals in the selling of bonds caused corruption that contributed to the recession, many people were hit by the repercussions of the selfish actions. Selling the bonds to people who weren 't in good financial situations became a normal action which cheated many individuals out of money. The bond market would be better off being transparent parallel to the stock market because less people would

The current enterprise value is $41,335 million and the equity value is $34,455 million. According to yahoo finance, the shares outstanding of our company are 647.31 million, so we can calculate the stock price for next year is $53.23. It will increase in following years.

“By 2000, Enron's stock was worth $ 90 a share, and its executives were being hailed as innovative geniuses and political gurus.” (St. Petersburg Times, "Enron's meltdown."), and the company has been organized into three divisions: Enron Wholesale Service, dedicated to operating in product markets (including Enron Online); Enron Energy Services, which provided consulting services to companies for the management of their electrical needs and Enron Global Services,

Enron executives and accountants cooked the books and lied about the financial state of the company. They manipulated the earnings and booked revenue that never came in. This was encouraged by Ken Lay as long as the company was making money. Once word got out that they were disclosing this information, their stock plummeted from $90 to $0.26 causing the corporation to file for bankruptcy.

Accounting information can be useful in order to help predict future performance in the short and long term. It is important to note however that accounting information including accounting ratios show a company’s performance at a period in time. It is historical data. Trends can be identified by comparing data in sequential periods and future forecasts can be determined using historical data. There is no evidence or proof however, that these patterns will predict the future at a level of complete certainty. In my opinion, it would be hard to argue that decreasing profits over an extended period of time, or deteriorating liquid assets and increasing long term debt will have a

Enron Corporation was an energy company founded in Omaha, Nebraska. The corporation chose Houston, Texas to home its headquarters and staffed about 20,000 people. It was one of the largest natural gas and electricity providers in the United States, and even the world. In the 1990’s, Enron was widely considered a highly innovative, financially booming company, with shares trading at about $90 at their highest points. Little did the public know, the success of the company was a gigantic lie, and possibly the largest example of white-collar crime in the history of business.

In the modern time, the competitive business world seems to be more serious than previously. The main aim of business strategy is creating the benefit in trade and also reducing some of its limitations. Furthermore, another strategy that is applied to the modern business world is to link the economic globalization such as in order to become a listed company on the stock market. We can see lots of advantages by listed companies compared to private companies such as financial stability or are more opportunities to do business. It is an absolutely interesting that the top biggest companies in the world, (by top 100 companies) are all listed on the Stock Market, such as Wal-mart stores the biggest companies by 2010 (Fortune global 500, 2010)

The story of Enron begins in 1985, with the merger of two pipeline companies, orchestrated by a man named Kenneth L. Lay (1). In its 15 years of existence, Enron expanded its operations to provide products and services in the areas of electricity, natural gas as well as communications (9). Through its diversification, Enron would become known as a corporate America darling (9) and Fortune Magazine’s most innovative company for 5 years in a row (10). They reported extraordinary profits in a short amount of time. For example, in 1998 Enron shares were valued at a little over $20, while in mid-2000, those same shares were valued at just over $90 (10), the all-time high during the company’s existence (9).

Many individuals depend on the sound functioning of our banking system in order to pay bills, save, invest, and provide for their future. When banks are unable to fulfill their duties to the economy due to over speculation or poor risk assessment, it is the role of the regulators to step in and right the ship.