What is happening around the world that may affect a company’s performance.

LIST OF STOCKS:
– APPLE INC ( INFO TECH )
– ALPHABET INC ( COMMUNICATION SERVICES )
– BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC ( FINANCIALS )
– JOHNSON JOHNSON ( HEALTHCARE )
– WALMART ( CONSUMER STAPLES )
-NEXERA ENERGY ( UTILITIES )
-BOEING CO / ( INDUSTRIES )
-MARATHAN PETROLEUM ( ENERGY PETROLEUM )
-BALL CORP ( MATERIALS )
-EXTRA SPACE STORAGE ( REAL ESTATE )
– NIKE ( CONSUMER DISCEREATIONARY )

LOOK AT EXAMPLE BELOW . PLEASE DO EACH STOCK ANALYSIS SIMILAR AS ONE BELOW.
ONLY USE YAHOO FINANCE AND SHOULD NOT BE IN ESSAY FORMAT, BULLETED POINT FORMAT AS BELOW

EXAMPLE: Analyst Review for Nasdaq
Executive Summary- The Nasdaq is in the Financial services sector and in the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges industry. The stock is currently at $198.86 and should be considered a buy now stock. They have just appointed Toni Townes-Whitley to its Board of Directors. As the Covid-19 pandemic plays a significant role in today’s economy it does not significantly impact this stock.
Company Overview- The Nasdaq, Inc was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in New York, New York. It operates through the technology section and has four main segments known as: Market Services, Corporate Platforms, Investment Intelligence, and Market Technology. The Market Services segment includes equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equity trading, fixed income and commodities trading and clearing, and trade management service businesses. The next segment, The Corporate Platform includes listing; investor relation; and environmental, social, and governance services businesses that deliver critical capital market and governance solutions to public and private companies. Following that segment, the Investment Intelligence segment provides market data, index, and analytics to institutional and retail investors. Lastly, the Market Technology segment offers technology solutions for trading, clearing, market surveillance, settlement, depository, and information dissemination to markets. A fun fact about the company is that it is formerly known as The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. and changed its name to Nasdaq, Inc. in September 2015. Nasdaq, Inc. Their mission statement is: To provide the premier platform and ecosystem for global capital markets and beyond with unmatched technology. Insights & markets expertise.
Industry Overview
Business Description- Sector(s): Financial Services
Industry: Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
Executive Management-
Ms. Adena T. Friedman is the Pres, CEO & Director. She had joined NASDAQ in 1993, as she was the CFO. She then left in 2011 and rejoined as the CEO in 2017
Mr. Bradley J. Peterson is the Exec. VP, Chief Information Officer & CTO. Before Nasdaq, he served as CIO and EVP for Schwab Technology Services. He had also served as CIO at eBay for five years.
Mr. P. C. Nelson Griggs is the Pres of Nasdaq Stock Exchange & Exec. VP of Corp. Platforms. Before working at NASDAQ, Nelson worked at Fidelity Investments and a San Francisco-based start-up. He had graduated from Denison University in Granville, OH.
Recent News- They announced they will delist the common stock of Abraxas Petroleum Corporation as well as Sequential Brands Group, Inc. More recently, Nasdaq appoints Toni Townes-Whitley to its Board of Directors.
Geo-political Events- The Covid-19 Pandemic plays a big role not only in this stock but others as well. Each company is adjusting to this event accordingly.
Technical Analysis-
1 Year- Bullish upward trend 5 years- Bullish upward trend
Peer Group Analysis-

Share price
Price target
Revenue
TD
$852.15
$969.09
$16.21B
BLK
$67.82
$85.79
$39.92B
AMT
$268.57
$303.77
$8.04B
NDAQ
$196.00
$201.92
$1.41B
Fundamental Analysis-
Revenue

Gross Profit

EBITDA

Net Income

EPS

Net Profit Margin
1.41B
2.8M
1.436M
933,000
2.05
24.15%

ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE:

Executive Summary- An executive summary, or management summary, is a short document or section of a document, produced for business purposes, that summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all. It usually contains a brief statement of the problem or proposal covered in the major document(s), background information, concise analysis and main conclusions. It is intended as an aid to decision-making by managers and has been described as the most important part of a business plan.
Company Overview- Is an overview of the most important points about a company—includes the companies’ history, management team, location, mission statement and legal structure.
Industry Overview
Business Description- What is the company’s business?
Business Strategy- What are the company’s goals and strategies?
Executive Management- Who are the top executives running the company, (CEO, CFO, etc.) and a brief background.
Recent News- Most recent impactful news items about the company.
Risk Factors- What are the risk factors for the company and industry.
Geo-political Events- What is happening around the world that may affect a company’s performance.
Technical Analysis- Technical analysis is a trading tool employed to evaluate securities and identify trading opportunities by analyzing statistics gathered from trading activity, such as price movement and volume. Use a chart to show price action over the past year and the past 5 years. Is the price action bearish, bullish or neutral?
Peer Group Analysis- compare price analysis of the company you are writing about with its peer group of companies.
Fundamental Analysis- Fundamental analysis is a method of evaluating a security to measure its intrinsic value, by examining related economic, financial and other qualitative and quantitative factors. Common items include Revenue, Gross Profit, EBITDA, Net Income and EPS.
Macroeconomic Analysis- Macroeconomic refers to the process of utilizing macroeconomic factors and principles in the analysis of the economy. Macroeconomic factors include factors like unemployment, inflation, government policies, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and interest rates.
Microeconomic Analysis- Microeconomic analysis is the study of how the actions of individual people and business firms affect the economy. This contrasts with macroeconomics, which focuses instead on the economy of an entire nation.

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