Market share

Every business today needs market research. Large companies have dedicated research divisions that are closely aligned to other departments. Their budget often runs into millions. Research gives companies the much-needed edge in a highly competitive environment. It helps them to improve products, while streamlining their services. This is also one of the weakest components of smaller businesses. They lack the resources to run a full-fledged research department. The lack of research means their…

1. State the Miller Modigliani (MM) dividend irrelevance proposition Modigliani and Miller (MM) proposed that in an ideally simple and perfect capital market, shareholders are indifferent between dividend and capital gains, and the value of a company is determined solely by the earning power of its assets and investments. Focuses more on firm value but not on firm risk. MM argued that if a company with investment opportunities decides to pay dividend, so that retained earnings are insufficient…

applied to measure impatient marketable orders coming to the market by comparing to the national best bid and offer at the time of execution. Effective spread is defined as twice the difference between the actual execution price and the mid-market quote at the time of order entry. The first advantage of effective spread is the easy calculation and data collection. In addition, as the effective spread includes both price improvement and market impact, it better captures the transaction cost of…

Is Frontier A Buy After The Big Selloff? Frontier Communication (NYSE:FTR) share price extended its volatility into this year, declining nearly 39% since the start of this year, extending the three-year selloff to more than 62%. Investors always love to buy underestimated stocks to create a value. In the case of FTR, the company’s share price has been declining amid poor past performances and bleak future fundamentals. Therefore, it’s important to look at the key financial metrics of this…

Market Capitalization: It is the number of outstanding share multiplied by the share price of one share. It is used by the investment community to understand the firms size viz Large –cap, small-cap or mid-cap. Larger the Market Capitalization lesser the risk associated with the stock. The market Cap of Etisalat is increasing trend YoY shows the increase in price per share and the high valuation the investment community places on Etisalat share price. Common Size Income Statement Analysis…

October 23 and on October 24, a record breaking thirteen million shares were traded, compared to an average four million shares per day in September. Although prices steadied for a few days, panic started again, with the trade of 16.5 million shares on October 29. A coupe…

Country Analysis: - P&G has is it’s head quarters in the United States of America hence my country analysis will be focusing on the economical factors, the trade and stock market and the government treasury of the US. 1. Economy of the country: - • The US is the world’s largest economy representing 17% of the global GDP and 22% of nominal GDP. • The United States is also one of the most stable economies in the world. • US’s GDP was recorded to be a whooping $17.701 trillion at the end of 2014…

(Investopedia, 2017). A bond’s value to the bondholder is equal to the current value of its anticipated future cash flows (Investopedia 2017). To calculate a bond’s current market value…

already existing market. This would entail competing with established brands, thus it is important to launch a high quality, eco-friendly and customer oriented TV with new features. The company will target both high-end and middle consumers and match the product to their needs. Brand awareness will be built through promotional and publicity strategies. Pricing will be done based on value and consumer psychology. Further, the prices will be set at a low level to attract a market share after which…

The Wall Street Journal “Walmart Surprises with Dim Outlook” In the article “Walmart Surprises with Dim Outlook,” the desperate and concerned tone of the workers show their feelings towards a situation. For the last couple of years everything has been looking well for the worldwide known company. However, everything has turned upside down when they see their sales and profit for this year so far. Due to this event, not only is it affecting Walmart but all the other manufacturers as well. The…