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Suu/CI_01ChupeeR _ W 55Igell.pui Profiling a Corp. The point value for this assignment is only_points. However, the purpose for assigning this exercise is to introduce you to some research fundamentals that you will most likely be required to use at the university level. Gathering information via the Internet: Select a public corporation that you have an interest in. It will be DIFFERENT FROM YOUR FRIEND'S. DO NOT USE THE SAME COMPANY. Using the Internet, develop a short profile of the company. Within your narrative writing assignment, include the following information: • Name of Company • Stock ticker symbol • State of Incorporation (look at the first page of a 10K) • Nature of the operations • Total Assets for most recent balance sheet • Total revenues from most recent income statement • Net income from most recent income statement • What classes of stock to they have (common, preferred or both - look at the equity section of a balance sheet to help) • What is the market price today? • What is the high and low stock price for the past year? DELL

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Microsoft Corporation

It is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington (United States). Microsoft was Founded in the year 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul allen. Currently being traded as NASDAQ :MSFT. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows, line of operating systems, the microsoft office suites and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Microsoft is ranked No. 30 in the 2018 fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.  

As per Annual Report 2018, Microsoft as driven by growth across each of its segments has reported a total asset of $ 258,848 million as compared to its total assets of $250,312 million for the year 2017, total revenue of $110,360 million as compared to its total revenue of $96,571 million for the year 2017 which shows a percentage change of 14% and  Net Income of $16,571 million as compared to its Net income of $25,489 for the year 2017 which shows a decline of $8,981 million or a percentage change of (35%).

The Basic Earning per share as reported in the income statement of an Annual Report 2018 is $2.15 as compared to $3.29 for the year 2017.The basic earning per share of a company is the amount of a company's earning allocable to each share of its common stock. It is useful measure of performance for the companies with simplified capital structure.

The company declared a cash dividend of $1.68 in 2018 as compared to $1.56 for the year 2017. The dividend per share is the sum of declared dividends issued by the company for every ordinary share outstanding. The figure is calculated by dividing the total dividend paid out by a business including interim dividends over a period of time by the number of outstanding ordinary shares issued. The company only deals in the common stock.

The current market price of the share as on Nov 28 2019 is $152.32 which previously closed at $152.03 on Nov 27 2019. The all time high Microsoft closing price was $152.32 on Nov. 27 2019. The Microsoft 52- week high stock price is $152.50 which is 0.1% above the current share price. The Microsoft 52-week low stock price is $93.96 which is 38.3% below the current share price, The average Microsoft stock price for the last 52 weeks is $126.25.

The Current Price Earning Ratio as on Nov 27 2019 is 28.70. The Price Earning Ratio is the measure of the share price relative to the annual net income earned by the firm per share. PE shows current investor demand for the company. A high PE ratio generally indicates demand because investor anticipates earning growth in the future.

As per the annual report 2018 company has invested in Power BI which has made the company leader in business analytics in the cloud. Announced open data initiative with Adobe and SAP which will enable the customer to take control of their data and build new experiences. The company has expanded its global data centre footprints to 54 regions more than any other cloud provider and with project Natick company is innovating beyond land, experimenting with a full scale subsea, zero emission data centre with the promise of setting new standards for data centre provisioning, latency and sustainability.

Microsoft has been one of the top names in Tech industry for decades with a total market cap of over 1 trillion and thus one of the most highly valued company today. Up 200% over the past five years, It has remained a strong investment. Microsoft recently released its fiscal first quarter earnings for 2020 and yet again, the stock surpassed expectations with earning per share of $1.38 and revenue of $33.06 billion. Thus it is advisable to invest in the ever growing company like microsoft.