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".Graded Dis

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".

Graded Discussion Week 8

Results of the Research Project Part 2

As an initial response to the discussion topic please create a Power Point presentation of 5 slides plus the title slide that contains the main results of 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.

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