As a financial analyst you have been asked to analyse an ASX listed company. The company is one of your choosing. Your task is to make a recommendation as to whether this company is an attractive investment opportunity. Before you draw a conclusion, you are required to: 1) Discuss how successful the company has been at maximizing stakeholders value over a set analysis period. This period may be 12 months, 2 years, or 5 years. 2) Analyse the company's share price history and traded volumes over the chosen analysis period. 3) Calculate the return for investing in the company both short term and long term and identify the main causes of its volatility in return over the corresponding holding period. The discussion of volatility should consider economic-wide and firm-specific factors. 4) Apply the valuation technique(s) taught in this course and undertake a current valuation of the equity for your company. Based on your calculation, would you recommend a prospective investor to buy, hold or sell this security and why? 5) Analyse the company's dividend policy. Should the company follow a progressive dividend policy? Critically evaluate factors that are affecting corporate dividend policy and how your company's dividend policy may have influenced its capital structure and share price. 6) Analyse the company's capital structure. How would you describe the current capital structure for your company and justify with reasons that should potential investors view this company as a favourable investment choice? Based on the attempt to all of above questions conclude whether your company is an attractive investment opportunity. You should clearly explain your assumptions used in the valuations and estimations and critical discuss the limitations of your analysis and any other risks that may affect investors' decision making.

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Suppose that many stocks are traded in the market and that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate, r_ƒ. The characteristics of two of the stocks are as follows:

a. Calculate the expected rate of return on this risk-free portfolio? (Hint: Can a particular stock portfolio be substituted for the risk-free asset?) (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Oil is an example of a commodity, which is something of value that is traded in bulk in global markets. Other examples are gold, coal, natural gas, grain, etc. Commodity prices are the result of buyers and sellers interacting in highly competitive and dynamic markets. The article below shows trends in recent history for the price and quantity of oil being traded in the world markets. Each dot represents an equilibrium at a point in time. What are some factors that affect the demand and supply of oil? How would changes in demand and supply get us from one equilibrium to the next? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/30/business/how-the-us-and-opec-drive-oil-prices.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Suppose that many stocks are traded in the market and that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate, rƒ. The characteristics of two of the stocks are as follows: Stock Expected Return Standard Deviation A 7 % 30 % B 10 % 70 % Correlation = –1 a. Calculate the expected rate of return on this risk-free portfolio? (Hint: Can a particular stock portfolio be substituted for the risk-free asset?) (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return % b. Could the equilibrium rƒ be greater than 7.90%? Yes No

Suppose that many stocks are traded in the market and that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate, r_ƒ. The characteristics of two of the stocks are as follows:

a. Calculate the expected rate of return on this risk-free portfolio? (Hint: Can a particular stock portfolio be substituted for the risk-free asset?) (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

b. Could the equilibrium r_ƒ be greater than 12.00%?

Suppose that many stocks are traded in the market and that it is possible to borrow at the risk-free rate, r_ƒ. The characteristics of two of the stocks are as follows:

The Company XYZ had sales of $10,000 in 2019. The cost of goods sold was $8,000. There was no other expense or revenue in 2019. If the tax rate of the company is 40%, what will be the net income for company XYZ in 2019?

Your company has been granted an exclusive license to sell ice cream. No one has ever sold ice cream here before, so you have no idea what the demand will look like. You suspect that people like to buy more ice cream on hotter days, but you are very unsure about what price you should charge to maximize your profit.

Over your first season selling ice cream, you vary your price each week for the 10 weeks your license allows you to operate. You collect data including price you charged that week (giving you 7 data points at each price), the high temperature for that day, and the average number of cones sold per hour each day.  

You have paid a fixed fee of $10,000 to the state which covers materials (both the costs of the cones and the fixed costs associated with the food truck) to supply the ice cream cones that doesn’t vary depending on how many units are sold. A single employee, making $15/hour can handle up to 40 cones per hour, while a second employee would bring your maximum production up to 100 cones per hour.

Instructions

Use the data below to perform a multiple regression analysis, with Sales per Hour as your dependent variable and ‘Price’ and ‘Avg Temp’ as independent variables.  

Q2) Assume the average high temperature will be 80 next year. Use Excel to draw the demand curve. Be careful to put P on the vertical axis and Q on the horizontal axis.   Please label the vertical intercept (above what price will 0 units be sold) and the horizontal intercept (if P=0, how many units are ‘sold’)

Ice cream sales data                                     

Day        Sales per hour Price     Avg Temp

1             30.65    0.75      77

2             30.55    0.75      92

3             25.89    0.75      74

4             31.84    0.75      91

5             24.09    0.75      67

6             27.81    0.75      92

7             25.27    0.75      73

8             28.21    1.50      92

9             28.15    1.50      89

10           23.07    1.50      79

11           31.15    1.50      93

12           19.76    1.50      70

13           26.00    1.50      75

14           29.37    1.50      91

15           28.47    1.25      95

16           23.82    1.25      71

17           24.11    1.25      76

18           29.19    1.25      90

19           28.73    1.25      91

20           24.20    1.25      91

21           24.91    1.25      77

22           21.76    2.00      87

23           21.15    2.00      71

24           20.31    2.00      73

25           16.54    2.00      67

26           20.18    2.00      69

27           23.53    2.00      93

28           21.01    2.00      77

29           26.85    1.00      79

30           27.12    1.00      81

31           28.93    1.00      74

32           22.91    1.00      65

33           27.33    1.00      81

34           24.27    1.00      80

35           26.63    1.00      81

36           17.93    2.25      69

37           20.65    2.25      90

38           15.97    2.25      74

39           23.55    2.25      92

40           20.25    2.25      67

41           19.13    2.25      73

42           19.72    2.25      90

43           30.66    0.50      82

44           28.68    0.50      92

45           24.97    0.50      71

46           34.21    0.50      94

47           25.64    0.50      71

48           31.66    0.50      93

49           26.87    0.50      72

50           18.42    1.75      69

51           25.74    1.75      79

52           20.36    1.75      72

53           22.15    1.75      70

54           28.66    1.75      85

55           26.42    1.75      94

56           24.34    1.75      74

57           21.93    1.35      73

58           23.51    1.35      67

59           26.99    1.35      82

60           32.10    1.35      86

61           25.21    1.35      84

62           27.59    1.35      93

63           19.63    1.35      69

64           23.63    1.65      81

65           20.76    1.65      66

66           24.57    1.65      79

67           29.27    1.65      91

68           24.32    1.65      68

69           19.85    1.65      66

70           25.29    1.65      91