Apple and microsoft stock investment project

Document Type:Thesis

Subject Area:Finance

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Microsoft is traded on the NASDAQ stock market while Apple is traded on the Dow Jones stock market. Besides, I will study individual stock's historical and fundamental information, current events that pose an influence on stock prices and the related insider information. I will use this information to expound the reasons for choosing Microsoft and Apple to make up my stock portfolio, apply the techniques of stock assessment discussed in this course in data analysis, and lastly reflect underperformances to improve my prospects of future stock investment. Microsoft Historical and Fundamental Information (Weak Efficiency Form) Microsoft Corporation, an American technology company that backs up the invention, manufacturing, as well as licensing of goods and services associated with computing. I preferred Microsoft due to its strong historical performance, with hopes of getting a positive rate of return.

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77and 26. 4 percent below the current rate of shares. For the last 53 weeks, the average Microsoft stock price is $102. Significant dips in Microsoft's stock price over the last decade have generally been subjected to higher price levels than it was before the decline. I expect that the trend in stock price would continue to over the current stock price which is $111. 6 billion, which would put it second behind Amazon. com, Inc. ’s (NASDAQ:  AMZN) “Amazon Web Services” (AWS). Amazon’s AWS reported an annual revenue run rate of about $10. 0 billion last quarter. Primary Data Collection My data collection period began on Friday, March 8, 2019, and went on for 39 days, ending on but I recorded data for six days. At the starting day of data collection, the market was opened at 11:00 a.

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m. EST. During this project, I composed four data subsets. 00 15 - March - 2019 25909. 19 24 - March - 2019 25677. 27 29 - March - 2019 25817. 82 7 – April - 2019 26433. 22 15 – April - 2019 26335. 36 29 - March - 2019 117. 22 7 – April - 2019 119. 98 15 – April - 2019 120. 80 Table 4 I then used the values in Table 4 and the NASDAQ index values calculated in Table 3 to calculate the following information about Microsoft's stock: Microsoft Stock Performance Information Total Investment $10,000. 00 Microsoft (MSFT) $5,000. APPL sells its items worldwide via its retail shops, online mediums and direct deals inducements. The Company has also made big strides in selling through outsider cell organize transporters, retailers, wholesalers, and esteem included affiliates. What's more, the Company sells an assortment of outsider Apple-perfect items, including application programming and different embellishments through its retail and online stores. Further, AAPL pitches to buyers, SME organizations and training facilities, ad also a considerable number of government clients.

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Applesfinancial runs for a fifty two or fifty three week duration that closes on the last Saturday of September. 6 billion dollars and 12. 0 billion dollars in profits amid 2017 and 2016, individually, and further hopes to pay quarterly profits of 0. 63dollars per normal offer every quarter. However, this is a subject matter to revelation by the company’s Board. According to a recent article by Forbes, Apple additionally is envisioning to build its profit on a yearly premise also depending on a revelation by the Board. With the information, it is evident that using such supportive measures may not compensate for any, or in excess of a part, of the unfriendly monetary impacts of horrible developments in outside trade rates over the inhibited time the supports are put in place.

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Solid Form – Insider data Unknown to many investors, based worldwide nature of its business, APPLE has both domestic and international speculations. () writes that, FICO scores and evaluating of the APPL’s ambitious goals may be negatively affected by liquidity, credit crumbling, money related speculations, monetary hazard, political hazard, sovereign hazard or other varied factors. Therefore, the esteem and liquidity of the Company's money, money reciprocals and attractive securities may vary significantly. In this manner, despite the fact that the Company has not understood any noteworthy risks on its money, money counterparts and attractive securities, future variances in their esteem could result in huge accredited losses. 0 billion to repurchase offers of its regular stock and paid profits and profit reciprocals of $12. 8 billion.

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