Company Analysis - ENG100 - Professor Watnik - Company and Business Research

Team Presentation Assignment - Company Analysis & Recommendations

The Motley Fool - Publicly Traded Companies - List of largest publicly traded companies

Financial reports, including stock price, and net income and profit. Please include any other relevant financial information.
Conduct an industry analysis. Identify and review the company's main competitors.
Identify the company's business divisions and main locations.
Review the company's marketing materials, products, website(s), and public opinion.
Assess in general how the company is performing - what is going well and what needs to be improved.
Include any other pertinent information for the company.
State what the company is doing well and should continue doing.
State what is not going so well and strategies for improvement.
Provide the team's recommendations for the company.
1. State what the company is doing well and should continue doing.
2. State what is not going so well and strategies for improvement.
Think through your recommendations - for example, "lower prices" may be a strategy, but how will the company be profitable?

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