Summarize the trend in the dividend growth rates.

Part 1: Dividend Analysis (two to three paragraphs):
Create a table that illustrates the annual dividends per share paid by your selected company over the past 8 years. If the company has not paid dividends for 8 years, include as many years as available.
Calculate the growth in annual dividends per share each year and include this annual growth rate in your table.
To find the dividends your company has paid in the past 8 years, review the BUS401 |Picking a Company that Pays Dividends (Links to an external site.) video from Week 1.
Calculate the average dividend growth rate over the following periods:
the most recent 8 years,
the most recent 5 years, and
the most recent 3 years.
Summarize the trend in the dividend growth rates.
Have the dividend growth rates increased or decreased? By how much? Has the increase or decrease been steady or varied from year to year?
Determine two distinct estimates of the future dividend growth rate for this company: a high-end growth rate and a low-end growth rate. You are to choose these growth rates based on what is reasonable from the data you have on the company’s dividend growth in prior years, as presented in your table. The two future dividend growth rates can be any of following:
the most recent year growth rate;
the average growth rate over the 8-year period;
the average growth rate over the most recent 5 years;
the average growth rate of the most recent 3 years; or
a growth rate you select that is reasonable, given the 8-year, 5-year, and 3-year averages, as well as the recent year growth rates.
NOTE: Both dividend growth rates must be lower than the required rate of return used in the constant growth formula. See Part 2 below for the required rate of return to use in the constant growth formula.
Justify the determined the high-end dividend growth rate and low-end dividend growth rates for your company. In your justification, provide a least two financial facts from your Week 1 and Week 2 assignments to support your determination.
Part 2: Preliminary Valuation: (two to three paragraphs)
Calculate the stock price for your selected company using the constant growth formula and the low-end dividend growth rate you determined in Part 1. Show all calculations for this estimated stock price using the low-end dividend growth rate.
For the required rate of return (r), use the following assumptions:
For a large capitalization company (greater than $10.0 billion in market capitalization) use 10.0%.
For a mid-cap company (between $2.0 billion and $10.0 billion in market capitalization) use 12.0%.
For a small-cap company (less than $2.0 billion in market capitalization) use 15.0%.
Show your calculations.
In a similar manner, calculate another estimate of the stock price for your selected company using the constant growth formula and the high-end dividend growth rate.
Use the same assumptions for the required rate of return (r) that you used for the low-end stock price, other than using the high-end dividend growth rate.
Show your calculations.
Compare each of the two stock prices you just calculated to the current stock price per share of the company.
State whether each constant growth stock price (low-end and high-end) is above or below the current price.
State whether each constant growth stock price (low-end and high-end) indicates if the stock price is currently under-valued or over-valued in the market.
Determine your concluded stock value, based on the two calculations using the constant growth formula.
Justify your conclusion of value for your stock, using either the high-end stock price or the low-end stock price from the constant growth formula. Include least two financial facts from your Week 1 and Week 2 analyses.
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The Company: Raytheon Tech (RTX)

In which factors did you score highest? Do you agree with the results? Why or why not?

Personality Test #1 Free and Scientifically Valid Big Five Personality Test (123test.com)

Overview:
In this assignment, you will take an online personality test to measure the Big Five factors of your
personality and relate this to your professional career.
Instructions:
Take this free online quiz to discover your Big Five factors. Then answer the following questions:
• In which factors did you score highest? Do you agree with the results? Why or why not?
• Identify at least two jobs that you think would be a good fit for you based on your results, and
explain how your traits would help you excel in those jobs.
Requirements:
• Be sure to use course concepts in your work.
• Submit a Word document formatted in APA with an additional title page.
• Additional sources are not required, but you may benefit from including some. If you do use
sources, be sure to cite appropriately and include a Reference page.
• Use clear and professional writing.
Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before you write and
again after you write

How do you think managers can use this knowledge to motivate their employees? How will you use this knowledge in your own pursuits?

This discussion is based on a TED Talk by Dan Pink. Pink, a former speech writer, career analyst, and author of the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, reveals some remarkable facts about motivation that have been confirmed in many social science experiments but aren’t widely recognized. Pink argues that the way we’re motivating people is all wrong, and he proposes a new model to replace traditional incentives.
Watch Pink’s TED Talk in the Reading and Resources section, then respond to all of the following questions in your post:
Did you find Pink’s talk surprising? Why or why not?
Pink concludes:
“There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Here is what science knows. One: Those 20th century rewards, those motivators we think are a natural part of business, do work, but only in a surprisingly narrow band of circumstances. Two: Those if-then rewards often destroy creativity. Three: The secret to high performance isn’t rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive–the drive to do things for their own sake. The drive to do things cause they matter.”
2. How do you think managers can use this knowledge to motivate their employees? How will you use this knowledge in your own pursuits?

examines the reasons behind Jokowi’s underwhelming performance so far, arguing that the continued democratic stagnation is not, as institutionalists might posit, an ultimately inevitable result of the institutional setup of multiparty presidentialism.

it`s political science. master degree level.

Writing an essay. Including research design. Topic: Case Study of Indonesia From Time To Time in Presidential Leadership Theory Using Skowronek The Politics Presidents Make: Indonesia’s multiparty presidential democracy will remain vulnerable to
more serious populist challenges in the coming years?

This essay is using Skowronek framework (The Politics Presidents Make)
I am interested in Indonesia presidential leadership
examines the reasons behind Jokowi’s underwhelming performance so far,
arguing that the continued democratic stagnation is not, as institutionalists might posit, an
ultimately inevitable result of the institutional setup of multiparty presidentialism.

Think of an information system or technology you are familiar with and create a way to optimize its value.

M5: Writing Assignment
Think of an information system or technology you are familiar with and create a way to optimize its value. In this sense, value is revenue and/or profit. Thus, analyze the business motives of optimizing an information system you are familiar with. How would you make it better? How would it add to both top-and bottom-line performance? (Weekly learning objective 2)
See the attached 100-point Technology Business Motive Rubric
All weekly writing assignments will be written in APA and are due at the end of each respective week by Sunday at 11:59 pm.
Each writing assignment must consist of a 4-7-page paper written in APA, unless otherwise specified.
Each writing assignment must include at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed resources, as well as at least one more reputable (magazines, Ted Talks, etc) source.
Weekly writing assignments will include prompts that allow Learners to dive deeper into subjects covered in our weekly textbook readings and that align with the Course Learning Outcomes.
MBA 630 Business Motives Writing Rubric.pdf

Should oil and gas companies be allowed to engage in fracking, or should the United States ban the practice? Should certain regulations be put in place?

Analyze the following Case
Your answer must be responsive to the question asked to receive full points
Your answer must be 200 words or more.
As you learned in this chapter, business moves at breakneck speeds. Industrial and technological change is inevitable, and one of the keys to a successful business is a willingness to lean forward and embrace this change. Still, before a company can initiate a change, it must weigh the ethical, financial, and environmental impact of its actions. Neglect of one or more of these factors may lead some to wonder if the pursuit of innovation is always worth its potential consequences. To wit, one of the most controversial business changes in recent years is the oil and gas industry’s move toward hydraulic fracturing as an alternative to traditional good mining.
More commonly known as fracking, hydraulic fracturing is a process whereby a pressurized mix of liquid and sand is pumped down a well into sheets of rock located deep below the earth’s surface. As the pressurized mix expands, the liquid breaks the rock apart, creating fissures. The sand mixed into the liquid keeps the fissures from closing in on themselves, creating pathways through which natural gas and other fossil fuels can be extracted. Fracking has been used to simulate traditional oil well production rates since the 1940s, but the process has only recently become technologically and financially viable as a large-scale, standalone venture.
In the United States and Canada, fracking is most commonly used to extract natural gas from sheets of shale rock. Because so many oil and gas companies have turned toward fracking, U.S. natural gas reserves increased by more than 75 percent between 2004 and 2011. The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects this trend to continue, making the U.S. the world’s largest natural gas producer by 2017.
Because it provides access to rare fossil fuels that could not otherwise be collected, fracking is flourishing in many parts of the United States and Canada. However, several unsettling findings have brought the practice’s long-term environmental impact into question, and more than a dozen countries (including France, Germany, Spain, and England) and nearly 100 city and state governments in the United States have imposed moratoria or outright banned the practice. Change and innovation are inevitable in business. Without question, fracking represents a change (and an extraordinary innovation) in America’s oil and gas industry. As business moves forward, however, business leaders must consider whether change is always worth the risks it carries.
On one hand, fracking poses several benefits to America’s economy and business environment:
Without question, fracking is a boon to many American businesses. It has drastically reduced the cost of natural gas across the country, benefiting energy-intensive industries in an otherwise perilous economic climate. Fracking provides the United States a distinct competitive advantage, reducing our dependence on foreign fossil fuels and positioning America as a major player in the global gas market. According to President Barack Obama, the bourgeoning fracking industry will produce 600,000 new jobs nationwide.
Because it reduces our dependence on coal, fracking may actually improve the environment. According to the International Energy Agency, replacing America’s coal-burning power plants with natural gas-based plants could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases created through electric generation by as much as 45 percent. “If we combine that step with the other steps that make sense in their effects on both the economy and the environment . . . we will have a reasonable chance of meeting our climate goals,” says George Washington University law professor Richard J Pierce Jr.
On the other hand, opponents of fracking point to several compelling scientific studies suggesting that the practice is unsafe:
One Duke University study found that water supplies located within a half-mile of fracking wells can become contaminated with unsafe levels of methane: “The gas, which is usually located thousands of feet below the water table, appears to be entering the water wells either through cracks in the bedrock or, more likely, the casing in natural gas wells.” The connection was first discovered when residents living near fracking sites discovered that their running tap water was flammable and could be ignited with a match or lighter.
A 2013 study published in the scientific journal Geology found that the injection of pressurized fracking fluid can cause tectonic plates to shift, triggering earthquakes. According to the study, the largest earthquake in Oklahoma’s history (measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale and felt across 17 states) was caused by fracking. Moreover, between 2009 and 2013, the rate of earthquakes recorded in the American Midwest was 11 times higher than the average rate recorded over the previous 30 years.
Should oil and gas companies be allowed to engage in fracking, or should the United States ban the practice? Should certain regulations be put in place? Defend your answer.
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