Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: STOCK ANALYSIS

Department: Management

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1.5

Prerequisite(s): MGMT 648

Description: This course brings together some of the topics from Accounting, Finance, Economics and Strategy to better make investment decisions in your personal or corporate portfolio, as an investment management professional or helping you analyze how equity markets view different management decisions. The course will consist of hands-on stock analysis and will touch upon various aspects of improving your odds in making good investment decisions through both quantitative and qualitative fundamental analysis. We will touch on analyzing a company’s franchise, assessing the quality of the management, formulating your own investment thesis, and will use various valuation methods to assess the attractiveness of different stocks. We will also review how different political/regulatory, economic, and or sector-specific macro factors may affect your investment decision. The course will make use of current and historical events including touching upon the aspects of how the emerging markets secular growth impacts different stocks. Various other topics may include how the following affect stock valuation and prices: cash flow, leverage, mergers & acquisitions, spinoffs, corporate governance issues, currency and country exposures, new share offerings, restructuring, and competitive pressures. Repeatable for Credit.