Student Name Team #
Point
ICE #
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– Financial Ratio Analyses
1. DATA DOWNLOAD PROCESS
A. STEPS OF DOWNLOADING COMPANY FINANCIALS
· WRDS Homepage
· Login the username and password
· Get Data/ Company Financials
· Company Financials / COMPUSTA North America
· Data Variable/ Data Range: Fiscal Year
· Each team needs to have three fiscal years of each company
· Type Ticker Symbols (Please extract the data of five stocks of your portfolio)
· Don’t change the screen variables for this ICE
· Select Data Items
· Please refer to ICE#1- EXCEL Template to extra the
relevant information
from 973 data items.
· It is imperative to understand each financial variable definition, thus, each team member MUST help each other to verify how COMPUSTAT defines/calculates Balance Sheet and Income Statement data items.
· Question Mark next to data variable offers explanation which can assist you to make the correct decision.
· Finally, you can submit your query output.
Please DON’T SAVE Query to WRDS because the whole class is using the same account.
2. EXCEL TEMPLATE
A. FINANCIAL RATIOS ANALYSES
· Please SAVE all the data items downloaded from WRDS to Worksheet #1.
· Then each team will construct
embedded formula
to calculate financial ratios and answer questions which are displayed on Worksheet #2.
· After reviewing three fiscal years of financial ratios, please make 2 comments of each company. Then, each team should report the comments to Worksheet #3.
· THE FILE SHOULD BE NAMED – ” ICE#1-Team #”
· Submitted to BeachBoard Dropbox by due date/due time.
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WRDS Data Items
Financial
Ratios
Analyses
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Market Value | ||||||||||||||
Price-Earnings | ||||||||||||||
Market-to-Book |
Comments of Financial Ratios
After reviewing three fiscal years’ financial ratios of all five stocks, please make two comments of each company. (please use Wrap Text function) | Company 1 | Company 2 | Company3 | Company 4 | Company 5 |
Comment 1 | |||||
Comment 2 |