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Final Stock Analysis

JoAnne Leake

Dr Gammon

Bus110-10

Central Piedmont Community College

Stock Analysis

On January 17, 2018, I was given $25,000 in “play money” to invest in three companies on the
stock market. During this course I have become very interested in the stock market. The companies I
chose are Corning, incorporate (GLW), Snyder’s-Lance, incorporate (LNCE), and Amazon.com,
Incorporate (AMZN).

The very first stock that sparked my interest was Corning Incorporate-GLW because my husband has
been working for this company since 2015, and I have seen first-hand the growth of the business, so I
was confident investing into this company. For this reason, I bought nine shares of Corning Stock with
the money given. This company has the innovated products for a lot of use for today’s technology.
Corning Glassware was founded in 1851 and they changed their name April 1989 to Corning
Incorporated Inc. Corning manufactures glass substrates that have been used in the Liquid Crystal
Display (LCD) which is currently used in televisions, notebook computers, and flat panel desktop
monitors. According to Yahoo Finance, the graph below indicates as:
Corning’s Competitor Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. Hon Hai Precision is known by its trade
name, Foxconn. The world’s largest contract electronics manufactures produces: mobile phones as
well as computers, servers, and TV’s, other products it makes included components such as
connectors, cable assemblies, enclosures, flat panel displays, games consoles, and mother boards
Hon Hai also provides design engineering and mechanical tooling services (Hon Hai Industry
Company Profile). Hon Hai Industry mission statement: Through the most efficient “Total Cost
Advantage” to make comfort of electronic product usage an attainable reality for all mankind: Through
the propriety one-stop shopping vertical integrated eCMMS model to revolutionize the conventional
inefficient electronic outsourcing model: Through the devotion to the greater social harmony and
higher ethical standard to achieve a win-win model for all stakeholders including shareholders,
employees, community and management.
Corning Mission enduring set of values, Quality, Integrity, Performance, Leadership, Innovation,
Independence, and the individual. The products that Corning manufactures glass and ceramic for
products in: consumer electronics telecommunications, automotive, and life science industries.
Twelve countries with 70 manufacturing facilities and has 30,400 employees and had 8.79 billion in
revenue in 2013 (Corporate Office HD). The graph below compares the stock performance from 2014
to present:

Figure 2: Stock performance comparison of Corning and Hon Hai retrieved from Yahoo Finance
(2018)
Factors effecting stock performance for Corning Inc., are as follows: strengths-strong
performance of specialty glass and life sciences segment, Weaknesses-Customer concentration and
weak profit margins, Opportunities- Improvement include the increase in data usage, and Threats-
foreign currency fluctuations.
In the Most recent stock trends of GLW, the stock as performed 0.38% and its registered share
value at $29.37. Volatility Factor remains 1.6% volatile in the recent week and indicated 1.80%
volatility in last month. Gross margin is observed at 9.90% and operating is at 16.10%. Their Return
on Assets (ROA) it’s an indicator on how profitable they are with all the Assets they have, is 2.10%.
Return on Investment (ROI) is -2.40%. GLW is base here in the USA and has a market worth of
$25209.15M.
In the Performance Watch the stock as performed -0.94% around the last thirty days and change
-9.13% over the last three months. Analysts’ views consensus rating cocked at 2.4 on company
shares based on data provided from FINVIZ. They classified as a buy (the most volatile stocks.com).
Given the research from analysts, research on the brand and my amateur investment intuition I would
classify this stock as Buy.
My second choice is Snyder Lance Incorporated. I chose this company because I have been seeing
its products in vending machines and groceries stores for as long as I can remember. Additionally,
upon looking into the company, I realized the stock never really decreased in fluctuation. For this
reason, I bought ten shares with the money given. Lance was founded in 1912 and the company
recently changed its name to Snyder’s- Lance in 2010. This company is a major distributor for snacks
like pretzels, peanut butter crackers, chips, and nuts. The graph below shows:

Figure 3: Stock performance comparison of Snyder-Lance and Campbell Soup retrieved from The
Montley Fool (2018)

Snyder’s-Lance Inc. (LNCE) Headquarters 13024 Ballantyne, Charlotte N.C. 28210. The
company’s mission statement is: Snyder’s-Lance Snacking is a part of life. Our passion makes it
better.
Snyder’s-Lance Inc., (LNCE) competitor Frito-Lay which merged with Pepsi Cola Inc. (PEP) on
June 8, 1965. Pepsi Cola Inc. produces: Lays Chips, Doritos, Cheetos, Fritos, Sun chips, Frito Lay 2
Go, Ruffles Cheetos, Lays, Tostitos baked, Baken-ets, cheeters, cracker jacks, islen platanutres,
plantain chips, nut harvest munchies spitz, Funyuns onion flavored rings, Grandma’s. See the
comparison in the graph below:
 Figure 4: 5-year comparison of Snyder-Lance and Pepsi Co. retrieved from Yahoo Finance
(2018)
Their Mission statement: Delight our Customers. Factors effecting stock performance for Snyder’s-
Lance Inc., are as follows: Strengths are global industry (13%,31%), the industry provides future
trends (15%, 12%), the market size is adequate (16%, 32%), and industry has unique products (25%,
25%), Weakness is there might be too less supplies (46%, 27%), Opportunities are New trends can
increase market size (41%, 13%) and we see global growth opportunities (24%,31%) and Treats are
New products technologies change demand. (23%, 35%), Technological changes are affecting the
industry.
In the Most recent stock trends of LNCE, the stock value by -0.08% closing at the price of $49.96.
The stock currently has a market capitalization of 4.86 Billion, with average volume of 1.33 million
shares.
Volatility factor is currently showing beta of 0.62 (NASDAQ: LNCE). This is showing that Snyder’s-
Lance Inc., (NASDAQ: LNCE) has historically moved 62% for every 100% move in the benchmark,
based on price level. Currently EPS for Snyder’s-Lance Inc., (NASDAQ; LNCE) is at $0.21.
The stock currently has RSI of 50.30. RSI is considered overbought when above 70 and oversold
when below 30, currently the given RSI for the stock suggests that the stock is average, and it has
not entered in overbought or oversold territory. So, the Analysts outlook consensus to buy more
stock. Given the research from analysts, research on the brand and my amateur investment intuition
I would classify this stock as Buy.
My final choice was to invest into Amazon. I bought this stock because of their efficiency in creating a
market where people can find exactly what they are looking for and it being shipped to the customer
in record time, even same day shipping. For this reason, I used the last bit of money given to buy two
shares of this stock.
Amazon was founded in July 5, 1994 in Bellevue, W.A. Their headquarters 1516 2 nd Avenue, Seattle,
Washington 98101. Amazon products including: Compute, storage, database, analytics networking
mobile, developer tools, management tools, lot, security and enterprise application. These services
help organizations even faster, lower it costs, and scale largest enterprises and the hottest start-ups
to power a wide variety of workloads including: web and mobile applications, game development,
data processing, and warehousing, storage, archive and many others (Amazon.com products). See
stock performance on graph below:
Amazon.com Incorporated competitor eBay Inc. (EBAY), eBay uses the database to send deals to
customers through the database information. eBay Inc. mission statement is to provide a global
platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything. Whereas Amazon.com Inc. mission
statement is: “We seek to be Earth’s most customers-centric company for four primary customer sets:
customers, sellers, enterprises, and content creators.” The comparison of stock between AMZN and
EBAY is shown in the graph below:

Factors effecting stock performance for Amazon.com Inc. as follows: Strengths are Bigger selection,
Largest online retailer, capacity and speed, low-cost structure third party sellers, Weaknesses are
delivery, bundling, selection, price, customer reviews, Opportunities are increases sale of online
commerce, increase in demand for cloud computing, demand for faster delivery, and Threats are
competitive market of e-commerce, risk of foreign exchange fluctuation.
The Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), stock trends according to NASDAQ and Zack’s investment research
rate is a strong buy. Earnings growth for 2018 is 295.09% from 2016 to present. Peg ratio is 6.36
based on the consensus of professional analysts. Given the research from analysts, research on the
brand and my amateur investment intuition I would classify this stock as Buy.
 References

https://mostvolatilestocks.com/2018/03/22/stock-performance-summary-corning-incorporated-glw/