The specific purposes of the projects are: 1. Apply to actual companies the knowledge and analytical techniques learned from our course. 2. Perform vertical and horizontal analysis and various ratios on the financial statements. 3. Compare the calculated results with competitor and across different years. 4. Summarize the analysis and make investment recommendations. You will be analyzing the following firms: a. Home Depot (HD) b. Lowes (LOW). Please check the blackboard for the financial statements.

Consider the following limit order book for a share of stock. the last trade in the stock occurred at a price of $50. limit buy orders limit sell orders price shares price shares $49.75 500 $49.80 100 49.70 900 49.85 100 49.65 700 49.90 300 49.60 400 49.95 100 48.65 600 a. if a market buy order for 100 shares comes in, at what price will it be filled? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. at what price would the next market buy order be filled? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. if you were a security dealer, would you want to increase or decrease your inventory of this stock? increase decrease

4. the condition requires that only one of the selected criteria be true for a record to be displayed.

Boone brothers remodels homes and replaces windows. ace builders constructs new homes. if boone brothers considers expanding into new home construction, it should evaluate the expansion project using which one of the following as the required return for the project?