15 May GRADED DISCUSSION WEEK 8 Please note that if you edit your initial response

GRADED DISCUSSION WEEK 8

Please  note that if you edit your initial response (Original Post), you will  not get  credit for the Original Post. The discussions are set up as  “Must post first”. 

Results of the Research Project Part 2

As an initial response to the  discussion topic please create a Power Point presentation of 7-8 slides  plus the title slide that contains the main results of all questions part 2 of the Research Project.

These slides should include your recommendations, with supporting rationale, 

1. as to whether the assigned company’s  recent trend in financial and stock performance is of sufficient  financial strength to warrant entering in a long-term investment in  bonds and/or stocks if the company.
2. on the financial strategy of the  company, how to best balance THE COMPANY’S financial leverage to  optimize shareholder wealth going forward taking into consideration the  company’s current market position, credit rating, dividend policy, etc.

In your responses to other students please present your opinion, with supporting rationale,

1. about entering in a long-term investment in bonds and/or stocks of the company.
2. on the financial strategy of the  company, how to best balance THE COMPANY’S financial leverage to  optimize shareholder wealth going forward taking into consideration the  company’s current market position, credit rating, dividend policy, etc.

In your responses to other students  please DO NOT REPEAT the information presented on the student’s slides.  Instead, please complete your own research and present your findings  about this company.

You  are expected to make your own contribution in a main topic as well as  respond with value added comments to at least two of your classmates as  well as to your instructor.