In the time that we currently live in, fast food chains are some of the biggest and most widely known industries in the world, but the question that not many people could answer is, \"which company is the biggest?\" Almost any cultured person could name a couple of fast food chains, and most likely ...

Financial Analysis Anheuser-Busch Anheuser-Busch is in the alcoholic beverages industry, which has generated market-like returns over the past 5- and 10-year periods. I would like to note, however, that Anheuser-Busch has turned in very strong returns over the past 10 years, though it hasn't do...

Since the middle of 2005, software giant Microsoft has made attempts to purchase Internet portal Yahoo. Over the past year and a half, the merger has taken on an on-again/off-again character. That the merger talk will not fade away speaks to the perceived benefits of the merger, for Microsoft in ...

Underlying assumptions and limitations of the CAPM The CAPM is a mathematical model, and like any model it is merely a representation of reality. All models are constructed from a set of underlying assumptions about the real world, they inevitably have their limitations. The CAPM is built on the ...

Nortel vs. Raytheon Two companies taking similar actions that are obtaining very different results What is happening to the debt position? Nortel Networks engaged in several acquisitions in 1998. The effect on their income statement was staggering. Despite $17.575 billion in revenues (a $213 mi...

Lowe's is the world's second largest home improvement retailer and operated 952 stores in forty five states at their fiscal year ending January 30, 2004. The company is currently in the midst of the most aggressive expansion in its history with 130 new stores opened in 2003 and another 140 slated fo...

Investor psychology and representativenessMen, it has been well said think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. - Charles MacKay, 1841 in his classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.History has bee...

Under the Buttonwood Tree Just as the newspaper doesn't own the goods or provide the services it advertises, a stock exchange doesn't own the stocks and bonds it lists. Public corporations choose to list their stocks and bonds with an exchange for the same reason you might choose to take out a clas...

The 1929 Stock Market CrashIn early 1928 the Dow Jones Average went from a low of 191 early in the year, to a high of 300 in December of 1928 and peaked at 381 in September of 1929. (1929…) It was anticipated that the increases in earnings and dividends would continue. (1929…) The price ...

"The experience with Internet stocks since the start of 1998 isanother illustration of a speculative bubble (i.e., a situation in whichhigh prices are sustained largely by investors enthusiasm rather than byconsistent estimation of real value). By the end of March 2000, the CBOE(Chicago Board ...

Y2K pessimists are approaching their moment of truth. In seven weeks the world will, or will not, run into more trouble than most people think. Investors will, or will not, suffer last-minute jitters as the millennium draws near.Yes, yes, I know-it's not yet the millennium, from a technical point of...

1. Success as a Web Search Enginea.Why was Yahoo! such an early success on the Web?Yahoo was an early success due to a combination of factors such as timing, hard work, and a good understanding of Web surfer's tastes and needs.. In early 1995, Net mania was just flowering. It was a great ti...