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$.57 per share in 1988. The stock carries an historical Price to Earnings ratio of 59, and there were

c. Did anything surprise you about the company's values? Why or why not? (1-3 sentences. 1.0 points)

Another move or piece of information that may have affected the stock price is the announcement by PepsiCo that it was going to cut 8700 jobs and increased the marketing of brands by $600 million. This move was also expected to save the company up to $1.5 billion by year 2014. This will have the effect of increasing profitability of the company therefore, leading to a rise in the stock price. For example the net income per share of the fourth quarter was $1.15 while analysts had predicted $1.12 per share.

Professional auditing standards discuss the three key “conditions” that are typically present when a financial fraud occurs and identify a lengthy list of “fraud risk factors.”

1.-What is the possible meaning of the changes in stock price for GEICO and Berkshire Hathaway on the day of the acquisition announcement?  Specifically,  what does the $718 milllion gain in Berkshire´s market value of equity imply about the intrinsic value of GEICO? (Note that Berkshire owned 33.25 million shares before the acquisition was announced)

Geico Insurance, better known as Government Employees Insurance Company, is an insurance company which is located in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The company provides insurance coverage not only for automobile, but also for motorcycles, ATV’s, mobile homes, boats, RV’s, home renters, condo and life insurance. Geico Insurance was founded by the husband wife team of Lillian and Leo Goodwin Sr. in 1936. The concept of the organization was to provide reliable automobile insurance to federal government employees and their families. Leo Goodwin got his start while working as a civilian insurer for the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), which specialized in providing reliable insurance to military personnel. After going as far as he could in his career at USAA, Leo decide to take the experience he had acquired and opened his own insurance company. That following year, based on the assumption that federal employees as a group would constitute a less risky and more financially stable pool of insureds, he relocated his company to Washington DC, since it had the highest concentration of federal employees. It was in 1964 that that David Lloyd Kreeger became the company president, and help to steer it into a major insurance enterprise. In 1974, and under Kreeger’s leadership, Geico went public and began ensuring the general public. In 1948 he formed a group of investors and bought into Geico before it became public. By 1974 and under her leadership, Geico began insuring

Hershey’s market ranking is at $107 per share in cash and stock. For investors, this means it is time

As Robinhood Financial, LLC is a privately traded company, I cannot look at their full financial statement. This causes it to be difficult to find potential “gaps” that they may have in regards to profit. However, as I stated in my previous paper, Robinhood has received $66,000,000 from investors (CrunchBase, 2016). This is relevant considering, in their statement to the SEC, they revealed that they had $2,257,938 in total assets. This means that Robinhood has used approximately $63,000,000 towards salaries and development as of the end of last year. They have made no profit. However, this is now changing with their new service that they are rolling out to select groups of users at a time. They are offering an additional service that starts out at 10$ a month, and scales upwards depending on the capital within your account. This new service is a step forward, in the sense that they are now monetizing their user base, but it has its own unique symptom.

The price (April 3, 12:50PM) is 60.00 for Kraft Heinz compared to General Mills at 44.19. In the past year, Kraft Heinz has seen a steady decline in their stock. Kraft Heinz had a price as high as 93 in June of 2017. General Mills has a similar history in the previous year. General Mills saw a decline in price from June of 2017 through the end of the year. At the beginning of 2018, General Mills saw a rise in price, which has since fallen. General Mills has not had prices as high as Kraft Heinz in the past year. The highest points in the past year have reached only about 60. Kraft Heinz is making efforts to appeal to larger audiences by targeting consumers who are more health conscious. General Mills is also experiencing troubles due to the growing health trend, but this company is combatting this issue by increasing their costs. Overall, because of the data presented above, I have reason to believe that Kraft Heinz would be a better investment than General Mills because it is more profitable and is adjusting to its

Some high-profile takeover targets share price for the steep discount, they signed the agreement price, showing cracks that may be lurking in the current trading boom. Such as Take Office Depot Inc. The company’s stock trades 29% below the price Staples Inc. agreed in February to pay for its smaller rival. I believe the growing number of investors worried about antitrust regulators will block an agreement, combined with the country's two largest office supplies chain. Cigna Corp.’s stock is 22% below the value of Anthem Inc.’s $48 billion offer, while oil-field-services provider Baker Hughes Inc. trades 17% cheaper than the price of its pending $35 billion sale to Halliburton Co.

It was announced Friday April 16, 2010 that Goldman Sachs is now under review by the SEC regarding fraudulent practices. The short of it is that Goldman Sachs may have been one of the biggest players in the sub prime mortgage decline, due to their lending of these types of loans. An investigation is being launched to see if and how they may have defrauded customers.

Berkshire Hathaway has a variety of products/ financial services that range from insurance company to real estate companies. A bulk of Berkshire Hathaway’s business comes from the insurance industry. Geico, a subsidiary to Berkshire Hathaway, is one of the biggest American auto insurance company. On August 1995, the company spent $2.3 billion for $70 per share to purchase Geico. Geico was orginally founded in in 1936 by Leo Goodwin Sr. and his wife Lillian Goodwin.

Warren Buffett has notably said several times that he gives a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, and that this is one of the problems with the U.S. tax system. In fact, Hillary Clinton supports the "Buffett rule," which provides for a minimum 30% effective tax rate for the assets, in order to make sure they give further of their income than the middle class.

The sixth point that Mr. Buffett disagreed with is diversification. To be honest, I would like to divide investors into two groups, one is big and the other is small. For a small investor, diversification would undoubtedly cost so much that it is better to concentrate on one or two stocks. Nevertheless, it would be more terrific for a big investor to diversify not only because of reducing the firm-specific risk, but also the market risk by investing stocks with correlation not equal to one. Hence, this statement still remains some questions. Nevertheless, if we look the investments of Berkshire Hathaway, it does diversify its business in insurance, apparel, building products, finance and even flight

At first, Mr. Warren E. Buffett said that their operating and capital-allocation process would not be affected by accounting numbers such as financial statement and any consolidated numbers. The book also says the accounting reality is restricted by the generally accepted accounting principles, GAAP, so that some intangible assets