Valuation – Using both discount cash flow and multiple methods, you will estimate the current
value of the stock and its value one year from now. You will need to compare your forecasts
with other analysts and explain why yours deviate from theirs if by more than 5%. Finally, you
need to compare your expected total return to the expected return to a Treasury security of
similar maturity and divide their difference by the volatility of your stock over the past two
years. Similarly, obtain an estimate of the expected return to the S&P 500 over the next year and
divide the difference between it and the expected return to a Treasury security of a similar
maturity with an estimate of the volatility of the S&P 500 over the past two year. Interpret the
implications of these two ratios and their comparison.
Presentations should be no longer than 10 minutes, but questions can be asked during
presentations and so each presentation + questions is limited to 15 minutes.