Project Overviews:

This project is designed to develop an understanding of the major issues in corporate finance. It helps the ability to analyze corporate finance issues, apply finance theories to deal with practical issues in corporate finance and investigate emerging issues and contemporary trends in the field.

Research Methodology:

1. Analyze, apply and compare various investment appraisal techniques in order to make investment decisions
2. Analyze and apply relevant models to help identify company's cost of capital
3. Explain the controversy facing firm's payout decisions and evaluate the pros and cons of various payout policies
4. Analyze the similarities and differences in the way of investment, financing and dividend principles applied in different live companies
5. Apply appropriate valuation models to value shares and bonds to help with making financing decisions
6. Analyze and interpret financial data and graphs

Brief Summary of Report:

Amazon.com Inc. has been compared with the other main competitors to present its risk profile, capital structure and payout policy.

In payout policy analysis, different from the competitors, Amazon paid any dividend throughout its whole operation years. Because the management emphasize more on fast-growing goals. On the other hand, despite the 0% dividend yield, the investors are still interesting to buy shares from Amazon because of its rapid success rate and the affordable rate of value per share. For recommendation, there is any comment for its dividend policy. However, they should starting to focus on providing dividend payments since from the investors point of view, almost all of the reasons for investment is to earn regular passive income. Therefore, it might drive down the investor dissatisfaction.

Achievements: 64 out of 100