Reaserching Stock by H Z

RESEARCHING AND STOCK PICKING Champion This is my stocking portfolio where I have picked stocks based on different types of stock. The types stock I choose were Blue Chip, Turn around and Cyclical.

Hasan Zaidi MrMacphail 02-Oct-12

INDEX Home Depot Stock Type ……………………………………………………………………….Page 2 Business Summary……………………………………………………………Page 3 Why Invest? ..........................................................................Page 4 Yahoo Stock Type ………………………………………………………………………Page 7 Business Summary………………………………………………………… Page 7 Why Invest? ……………………………………………………………………Page 8 Ford Motor Stock Type: ……………………………………………………………………..Page 10 Business Summary……………………………………………………………Page 10 Why Invest? …………………………………………………………………….Page 11

Bibliography …………………………………………………………………….Page 13

Stock type: Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Some characteristics of a Arthur Blank. The founders Bernie and Arthur vision was â&#x20AC;&#x153;blue chipâ&#x20AC;? company of a one-stop shopping for do it yourself, which came to YES NO alive when they opened their first 2 Home Depot stores Longevity X on June 22, 1979. In 1984 the Home Depot opened its Excellent X 100th store which demonstrated enormous growth span Financial Shape over the 9 years! 1 As of now September 2012 Home Entrenched as X Depot market capitalization is 92.41B, making it a large leader in its field company.2 The company has operating margins of Pays Dividends X 10.08% over the last 12 months and a profit margin of 5.96%, which is significantly greater than competitors Lowe's and Lumber Liquidators.3 Due to high profit margin compare to other companies and its main competitor Lowes, it makes Home Depot as a leader in its industry.Home depot has paid dividends throughout history of its creation, if you look at the image below it shows its 10 year dividend history rate.4

1. https://corporate.homedepot.com/OurCompany/History/Pages/default.aspx 2. http://ycharts.com/companies/HD/market_cap 3. http://seekingalpha.com/article/896281-a-close-look-at-home-depot-cautiously-optimisticoutlook?source=marketwatch 4. http://ycharts.com/companies/HD/dividend_yield

Business summary Home Depot main branch is currently located in 2455 PACES FERRY ROAD, N.W. ATLANTA, GA 30339 United States. Home Depot follows its slogan “do-it yourself”, and also does home improvement, construction and building maintenance. If customers need professional help to renovate their homes, then Home Depot provides professionals to do the job. Home Depot is also a rent house for tools for professional customers, including repair and remodel contractors, special services who don’t have variety of tools. The Home Depot operates 180 stores across Canada with space of average more than 100,000 square feet, with approximately 20,000 square feet of outdoor seasonal space. Home Depot has more than 40 000 items stocked in its each shop for customers. Home Depot is traded at NYSE and is included in the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones 30 Industrial Index.5

Ticker symbol

52 week high

60.58

52 week low

31.03

Current share price

$60.37

Competition

Lowes, RONA, Home hardware

5. http://www.homedepot.ca/corporate-affairs 3

Why invest: Home Depot since opening its first store went on and expanded to 100 stores in just span of 9 years, from 1979 to 1989! Their mission statements do it yourself, and with home depot providing expertise along the way, as well as merchandise and tools caused them to grow into a huge corporation.1 Looking at Home depot financial records from 2008 to 2012 its profit and revenue income has increased drastically as shown in the image 1 on the next page.2 As you can see from the image 1, from 2008 to 2011 the revenue decreased drastically from 77.35 B to 68B, but in 2012 it went back up to 70B which show signs of recovery in the industry. The gross income decreased as well from 2008 to 2011 24.3B to 21.69B, but in 2012 it increased to 22.69 B making it highest gross income after 2008. If you look at image 2 posted below image 1, you can see the comparison over the years of revenue vs. operating income vs. operating margin, and revenue vs. net income and profit margin3. The operating income has increased in 2012 and same as revenue. Basically this all shows a sign of recovery in the home depot company, which means in the future there is a good chance of the stock rising. Home Depot shares have been trading higher over the last year, making it one of the best performing large cap stock. Surprisingly Home depot has a higher returned gain 79 % more than Apple, showing that Home depot is more of a better choice as an investment.3 Even though Home depot has a yield of 1.90% which is not attractive enough for the investors, but its ability to increase margin, cut cost and remain stable during the tough economic times, shows excellent management and efficient executive staff.8 Those are the reason why I would invest in Home Depot for long term rather than short term. By investing in long term there is a huge chance that Home Depot will be making more money and share prices going up, which all of it depends on current real estate market which is improving.

Stock type: Yahoo was started by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, originally they created yahoo for their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the internet. Since then Yahoo went on to become one of the most successful companies around the world in search engine.1 Recently yahoo has come out with a turn around strategy by their newly hired CEO Marissa Mayer, which involves answering the question what is yahoo? Over the past few years yahoo went from being one of the best search engine to Microsoft associated bing search engine. The CEO is trying to redefine yahoo into more user friendly web service. CEO will give employees more control of their projects and launch them if they have potential to generate over $100 million dollar revenue. Marissa Mayer is also firing old management and bringing in new faces, recently Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse left the company. Lastly Yahoo is going to buy small companies, unlike before when they bought small companies were usually for the products but now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for tech talent.4

Business summary: Yahoo main branch is located in 701 First AvenueSUNNYVALE, CA 94089 and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s traded in NASDAQ.1 Yahoo is basically like Google offers everything that Google does, except mobile services. Yahoo has its own platform of mail, messenger, search engine and news. Yahoo has over a million users and site visitors who use yahoo daily. Yahoo market cap is 18.88B and its revenue for most recent quarter is 1,217.79M.4

Ticker symbol Current Share Price 52 week high 52 week low Competition:

YHOO 15.98 16.79 13.11 Google, AOL, Microsoft (bing).

1. http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html 4.http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/26/technology/yahoo-strategy/?source=cnn_bin 7

Why Invest I believe the new CEO has taken a lot of positive steps toward change. But before all that we have to look into the new CEO profile, she was a chief executive of Google and was a key figure in product management and design efforts for Google web search, images, news, books, products, toolbar, and iGoogle. She has been recognized by Fortune magazine has listed her for the past 3 years on their annual Most Powerful Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list, and she was the youngest ever to appear on the list, furthermore also contributions and leadership have been recognized by numerous publications including the New York Times, Newsweek and BusinessWeek.5 Judging from her past contribution and recognition by various magazine and newspaper, she has the ability to change yahoo around, she also brings experience from her past working with Google that will bring more creative ideas to the table. As of now recently Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse has left the company. Morse, who kept a tight rein on finances since he took over as CFO in 2009, will be replaced by Ken Goldman, the CFO of Fortinet who has three decades of experience at software and Internet companies, including Siebel Systems.5 Ken Goldman is one of the most respected and accomplished CFO in the technology industry with over 25 years of experience.7 When Ken Goldman was in Siebel Systems he was the key figure that helped restructure the whole company, which is what yahoo exactly needs.6 I believe the reason yahoo was down for couple of years was because regular CEO changes, yahoo went through 4 CEO in 2 years, which resulted in lack of top leadership. Another reason yahoo was down because of its pervious 2 CEO one of them been Jerry Yang who reject Microsoft offer to buy yahoo and Scott Thompson who had problems with his resume.6 Therefore, I would invest in yahoo short term since the strategy is itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in beginning phases so it could take a while before we get to know how everything is going on. Image shows that revenue is rising slightly.

5. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/marissa-mayer 6.http://www.cnbc.com/id/49246547 7. http://ycorpblog.com/2012/09/25/ken-goldman-cfo/ 8

Stock type: Ford motor company is an American based automaker and countries #1 top company selling automaker.1 It is also one of the top 10 companies in world automaker industry. Ford was founded by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan and was incorporated on June 16, 1903, since then the company has gone to become one of the most successful companies and was one of the few survivors of great depression. Ford Motor produces cars, trucks and sells them worldwide.

Business summary: Ford is currently located in 1735 Sydney Rd CAMPBELLFIELD, VIC, 306, and it trades in NYSE. Ford Motor Co. produces automobiles and sells them across the world. It produces cars, trucks, the company also engages in other business; financing vehicles. Its automobile industry includes Ford and Lincoln.2

Ticker symbol

52-week high

$13.05

52 week low

$ 8.82

Current share price

$10.09

Competition:

Honda, Toyota, GM

1. http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2012/06/01/038126-ford-motor-company-posts-gainsacross-cars-utilities-trucks-may.html 2. http://www.companyspotlight.com/15733/Ford-Motor-Co

Why invest Even though we are going through tough economic times, with Europe in debt crisis causing cyclical stocks like Ford sale to drop, but I still believe Ford is still a good investment for long term for these reasons: Ford's 3.17% sales shortage throughout the past five years is the lowest amongst these automakers (Honda, Toyota, and GM). Ford's 158.4% ROE (return on equity), 4.6% operating margin and 7.2% profit margin are the highest among these automakers as well.5 In August Ford sales dropped by 2.3% 5 causing its shares to go down because of Europe crisis but looking at the image 13 you can see that investors are starting to reinvest in ford and its share price are going up which possibly means cyclical stocks like Ford are going up. Ford is coming up with a new technology with the help of Weyerhaeuser Company, which will increase the process rate of the cars and save more fuel. The new technology is using tree fiber to make plastic “cellulose” in its few plastic composites used to manufacture its vehicles. The company said that it can significantly decrease carbon dioxide discharge and weight by using cellulose in automotive applications.6 Pace of processing can be increased up to 40 percent. Ford Company used soy bean competent in its manufacturing which saved approximately 5,000,000 pounds of petroleum every year.6 This means the Ford cars are eco friendly and take a lot less gas making it ideal company in the future for car use, since oil prices these days are higher. Ford has a strong background history it was one of the few companies to survive the first great depression in the 1940s.1 It’s been over 100 years since ford was created by Henry Ford and it went out to become one of the most profitable companies in the world. Ford was considered to be a blue chip company at some point.7

1.http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2012/06/01/038126-ford-motor-company-posts-gains-acrosscars-utilities-trucks-may.html 3.http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AF&fstype=ii&ei=eapoUOj9LIb_qAGE4gE 5. http://seekingalpha.com/article/895511-3-reasons-to-buy-ford-now-for-a-long-term-investment 6. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/ford-motors-nysef-teamed-weyerhaeuser-nysewy-makeautomotive-applications-utilizing 11

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