1) From the list of Industrial sectors listed below, identify an industry of your

choice IN Canada or the United States, and do the following.

a) Randomly identify any 10 firms of your choice and determine the

industry average (10 years average in each case) of the following

financial variables; Current ratio, debt/equity ratios, PE ratio,

ROE, ROA, Gross profit margin, total debt ratio. Do the

average for each firm and then collectively as an industry.

b) Identify a single firm in the same industry different from the 10

chosen earlier and compare the chosen firm’s variables as above to

the industry average computed in (a) above.

c) Identify five news headline topics about your chosen firm and

analyze how they will affect the future share price of your chosen

firm.

d) Do an extensive analysis of your chosen industry at least for the

past 10 years.

e) Based on your analysis from above determine if the firm of your

choice among the lot is rated above, at par or below the industry

average.

f) Carry out an extensive SWOT analysis of the firm chosen as in (b)

above.

g) Determine if this firm stock is a good buy or a good sell off and why.

If it is not explain why?