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In 2001, it struck everybody as odd when a blue chip stock went bankrupt less than a year after it paid its top 5 executives a total of $282.7 million. The stock market is notorious for being seductively tricky; being the sole contributor to the making and breaking of many men. However, this time it was clear that this wasn’t an ordinary unexpected decline. Enron Corporation, a former American energy company, had to have had something going on behind the scenes to cause the largest chapter 11 bankruptcy

What i learned throughout the past weeks about my stocks is I learned that I have to spend my money more wisely throughout the whole entire week that we had this project. I think the most important lesson I learned about these last 8 weeks is that I should have bought and sell more stocks I think if I would have done that I would have gained more money through the long run it would have made it more interesting because if I would have bought and sold more. I would have learned the lesson not to do

Stock Valuation Project Wal-Mart Retail begins. Before opening Wal-Mart, Sam Walton, traveled the United States to study everything he could about discount retailing. Walton became convinced that American consumers wanted a new type of store. With this vision Walton and his wife Helen placed 95 percent of the capital for their first Wal-Mart store in Rogers, Arkansas. Within five years, the company expanded to 24 stores across Arkansas and reached $12.6 million in sales; in 1968 it opened its first

LECTURE STOCK VALUATION 1. Common stock valuation A share of common stock is more difficult to value in practice than a bond, for at least three reasons. First, with common stock, not even the promised cash flows are known in a advance. Second, the life of the investment is essentially forever, since common stock has no maturity. Third, there is no way to easily observe the rate of return that the market requires. Nonetheless, as we will see, there are cases in which we can come up with

Demise- Were there warning signs? Enron’s stock price traded around $62.72 per share at the end of April 2001. Do you think Enron was worth that much? Why or why not?, answer: In order value stocks one has to understand the possible future earnings of the company represented as earning per share. Since Enron has not quality financial representations, those figures are not easy to identify. Relying on big financial intuitions’ data we may come up with a stock value which would be a conservative

the proposed employee stock option plan? In a typical stock option plan, the employee is offered a specific number of shares which he/she can exercise (buy) at some specified time in the future. The price at which the employee can buy the stock is equal to the market price at the time the stock option was granted (grant price). The employee 's gain is equal to the market value of the stock at the time it is exercised, less the grant price. If the market price of the stock remains the same or decreases

decrease and thus decreasing shareholder value. Another studies displays that employee stock options has an indirect effect on productivity. This employees may become loyal to their company. This led to the firm’s productivity and enhances the return on invested capital. This will create positive shareholder value. Moreover, employee stock options and share prices are also positively related to each other becaue stock options can provide incentives to managers and employees to increase the value of

Companies use different methods for paying their stock owners their dividend payments, depending of what outcomes they are looking to achieve. If they are low in liquid cash they might pay with stock dividends or sometimes they don’t pay their dividends at all for certain periods. Some company needing to achieve their amount of share to increase or decrease might choose to do a stock split or reverse stock split, depending on what they are looking to achieve at end results. These decisions sometimes

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)

Stock Market Game The first step when partaking in any type of a game is to decide what one’s strategy will be. The strategy that I had to determine was what my investment philosophy was going to be. In this game, my willingness to take risk was greater than it would have been if we would have been using real currency. My risk tolerance would fall between moderate and aggressive. An investment philosophy is one’s approach to tolerance for risk in investments. It may be conservative which means