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Recent Merger Between Standard Pacific Homes and Ryland Homes Standard Pacific Homes (under Standard Pacific Corp.) and Ryland Homes (under The Ryland Group, Inc.) recently joined forces in order to better serve the communities which they have previously served separately. The two companies look forward to a bright future as one company. They expect to be stronger and more efficient than ever as a result of the merger between these two prominent homebuilders headquartered in Southern…

Cash is a very important asset in a business. Without it the business would cease to be able to operate. It is required to make purchases and to pay expenses. This means that having a healthy cash flow every year is essential to the Rocky Mountain’s success. Over the years Rocky Mountain has been slowly decreasing its cash intake, to the point where the company is losing cash every year. Beginning with 2011 the company had an increase in cash of $13.893 million. In 2012, it dropped to $3.145…

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals group that focuses on finding, mining, processing and marketing the Earth’s mineral resources. (Anon., 2016) Rio Tinto plc/ Rio Tinto limited are listed in London and New York Exchange list as well as in Australian Security Exchange. Rio Tinto operates in more than 40 countries and employs more than 55000 employees across all operations -open pits, underground mines, mills, refineries, smelters, power stations, and various research and service…

The Golden Eagle In the beginning of our times, two powerful celestial one was called “Ezio” and the other “Crono”, both wanted to create something that can admire their power and greatness, so they start making a kind of base where they can locate their people, the bases were called “planets”. They create a lot of planets in different places in the space, but just two of them were able to locate the civilization; one was made by Crono which he gave the name of “Mars” and the other was made by…

A higher P/E ratio than peer group average generally suggests that stock price may be overpriced, which is further confirmed by the significant price difference between actual stock price and stock price calculated using DCF model in this report. Additionally, CIMIC…

(see appendix 2). Using this EPS and the stock price as of March 22, 2016, the P/E ratio for DUK is 19.28. This means that for every dollar invested, one would expect $19.28 in return. However, looking at P/E as a function of one day in time would not be prudent, rather an investor would have a better feel for the company if they reviewed the trailing P/E or leading P/E. In the case of DUK the P/E ratios are 19.48 and 16.40 respectively (Yahoo! Finance,…

abortion, underreporting of hidden girls, infanticide or ultrasound because it made it easier for parents to detect the gender of a foetus. Ebenstein suggests that a consensus has been presented that demonstrates that the distortion in China’s sex ratio is due to the prenatal discrimination against the conceptions of female children2. In China’s cultural history large families favored their sons and family resources were given to them at the expense of their daughters. Different communities in…

Ratios related to financial decision process The table 2 below indicates three types of investment ratios and their implications. Fixed assets turnover is sometimes highly emphasized while making investment decision as it measures the relationship between fixed assets invested and profits generated, which may interest those investors and shareholders who have invested its property or fixed assets into the business and also it could be also significant to the financial manager as he may make an…

As shown in the above results of Graph 1 and Table 1, it states that males had an average heart rate increase of 7.8 beats when watching Crazy Stupid Love meanwhile, females had an average heart rate increase of 4.2 beats when watching Crazy, Stupid, Love. Furthermore, it shows that males had an average heart rate increase of 8.9 beats when watching The Patriot meanwhile, females had an average heart rate increase of 9.3 beats when watching the Patriot. This shows the trend that the average…

Discussing the SWOT analysis of Ryanair, lowest fare is one its strength. Following the fact that Ryanair have the lowest cost base, in the European short haul flight markets, Ryanair also has the lowest average fares. The average fare is 37% lower than easyJet. Ryanair increases its fares over the years, but they still hold its symbolic prices. The reasons for their increase are including the competitor capacity restraint and fuel surcharges, and slower growth of Ryanair during winter when…