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Corporate Earnings Analysis exercise

Identify two comparable corporations.  Explain why you think they are comparable to your corporation.

Earnings analysis:  Do an earnings analysis of your corporation.  Calculate and plot.

                a. Compare to itself over time

                b. Compare to comparable firms identified in #1, current and over time

Include in your analysis:

                a.  tables of raw data

                                1)  your corporation

                                2)  each of your comparables

                b.  plots of your corporation against

                                1)  itself over time

                                2)  the comparables

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