Business analysis
Business analysis contains a thorough
discussion of a firm’s competitive
challenges and evaluation of its
business plans/goals. In particular,
please perform:
a. Porter’s Five Forces Analysis of
Competitive environment of the
company.
b. SWOT analysis and analysis of risks
facing the company. Please refer
directly to the risk disclosures the
company provides in its most recent
10-Ks.
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2. Project contains analysis of most
recent news surrounding the company
from multiple news sources and
provides consideration of how this
news analysis impacts business
analysis. In particular, you must
provide a summary of:
a. News articles for the most recent
two years for the company.
b. Discussion of the last four
quarterly earnings releases and
earnings releases conference calls
and strategic company issues
raised in those earnings releases
and conference calls.