Porfolio Managment reasearch paper

This project is a 10 page long including work cited.

The topic is Portfolio Managment and i am researching COP. I already made most of it i just need it to be in a paper.

I have a presentation that has information for the company you can you use.

I took these info for COP website and Yahoo finance. I uploaded my the paper outline

It should be in MLA style.

Let me know if you can access both of the powerpoints i have attached here.

Research Paper Outline

Research Paper

Seven major sections:

• Company background / introduction
• Industry research
• Company fundamentals
• Company financials
• Stock valuation analysis
• Investment summary & recommendations
• Investment risk factors

Industry Research

• Porter's competitive 5-force analysis
• Industry Life Cycle
• Industry fundamentals:
• market share, long term demand, profitability, economic sensitivity, etc.

Five-force framework

• Rivalries: competitors strengths and strategies, Industry fragmentation, product differentiation, etc.
• Threats of Substitutes: alternative products/services
• Threat of new entrants: barrier of entry
• Customers: Concentration, pricing power, new market
• Suppliers: Concentration, pricing power, availability and reliability

Industry Life Cycle

• Stage I: early development
• Rapid growth rate, fierce competition among many firms for perceived opportunities, little or no profit;
• Stage II: Rapid expansion
• Consolidation, continued rapid growth, market share by a few companies, fast expanding margin, increasing return on capital;
• Stage III: Mature growth
• Market getting saturated thought still growing, market getting difficult to broaden, alternative competition, stable margin but return increasingly under pressure;
• Stage VI: stabilization or decline
• little growth and leveling of output, productivity becomes important for margin improvement, average profit return.

Attachment:- Research_Paper_Outline.rar