Porfolio Managment reasearch paper
This project is a 10 page long including work cited.
The topic is Portfolio Managment and i am researching COP. I already made most of it i just need it to be in a paper.
I have a presentation that has information for the company you can you use.
I took these info for COP website and Yahoo finance. I uploaded my the paper outline
It should be in MLA style.
Let me know if you can access both of the powerpoints i have attached here.
Research Paper Outline
Research Paper
Seven major sections:
• Company background / introduction
• Industry research
• Company fundamentals
• Company financials
• Stock valuation analysis
• Investment summary & recommendations
• Investment risk factors
Industry Research
• Porter's competitive 5-force analysis
• Industry Life Cycle
• Industry fundamentals:
• market share, long term demand, profitability, economic sensitivity, etc.
Five-force framework
• Rivalries: competitors strengths and strategies, Industry fragmentation, product differentiation, etc.
• Threats of Substitutes: alternative products/services
• Threat of new entrants: barrier of entry
• Customers: Concentration, pricing power, new market
• Suppliers: Concentration, pricing power, availability and reliability
Industry Life Cycle
• Stage I: early development
• Rapid growth rate, fierce competition among many firms for perceived opportunities, little or no profit;
• Stage II: Rapid expansion
• Consolidation, continued rapid growth, market share by a few companies, fast expanding margin, increasing return on capital;
• Stage III: Mature growth
• Market getting saturated thought still growing, market getting difficult to broaden, alternative competition, stable margin but return increasingly under pressure;
• Stage VI: stabilization or decline
• little growth and leveling of output, productivity becomes important for margin improvement, average profit return.
Attachment:- Research_Paper_Outline.rar