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Stock Valuation
Scholastic Corporate (NASDAQ: SCHL) is an educational publishing firm based in the United States. In order to make an investment recommendation on this stock, a number of different techniques can be used to analyze its financial performance. These include ratio analysis, for which three ratios will be chosen, and trend analysis for the past three years. The stock is currently trading at $26.41, its lowest level since August of 2010, but substantially higher than its levels at the depths of the recession in early 2009. The company has a beta of 1.31, indicating that it is more volatile than the market in general. The three ratios that will be examined are the current ratio, which measures liquidity, the net margin, which measures profitability and the return on equity, which measures the ability of the firm to convert its equity into profit.
The current ratio...
This compares with 2.01 in 2009, 2.07 in 2008 and 2.21 in 2007. This is a very high number, which indicates high liquidity. The trend is that the current ratio dipped during the recession but has now recovered to pre-recession levels. The second ratio is the net margin. The net margin for Scholastic is 2.9%. The company lost money in each of the past two years -- net margins of -0.7% and -0.8% respectively and in 2007 the net margin was 3.2%. This shows a similar pattern where the company's performance declined during the recession but is now recovering to pre-recession levels. The final ratio is the return on equity. The ROE for Scholastic at the end of fiscal 2010 was 7.2%. This compared with -1.7% in 2009; -1.8% in 2008 and 5.7% in 2007. The same trend is in evidence here as with the previous two metrics. It is worth noting that the company's stock price also…
Works Cited:
MSN Moneycentral: Scholastic Corporation (2011). Retrieved May 15, 2011 from http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/statemnt.aspx?symbol=schl
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