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Research Question
Assignment (1) Company Chosen- MERCK KGaA
Note:- For a reference iam sending Company analysis of Gilead.
1.Is this a company where there is a separation between management and ownership? If so, how responsive is management to stockholders?
2. What are the other potential conflicts of interest that you see in this firm?
3. How does this firm interact with financial markets? How do markets get information on the firm?
4. How does this firm view its social obligations and manage its image in society?
5. What is the breakdown of stockholders in your firm - insiders, individuals and institutional?
6.Prepare common-size balance sheets and income statements for the last two business years.
7. Calculate the EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) for last two business years (total and as a percentage of sales).
8. Calculate Net Working Capital for the last two business years (total and as a percentage of sales).
9. Calculate average tax rate for the last two business years. 2
10. Please calculate for your company ROE, ROA, and ROC. 11.Market Value Added, Market-to-Book Ratio.
All the Efficiency, Profitability, Leverage, and Liquidity Ratios 
(Note- reference book Brealey/Myers/Marcus, Fundamentals of Corporate FinanceFile)
13. ROA and ROE breakdown as shown on pages 114 and 117.
14. What is the risk profile of your company? How much overall risk is there in this firm? Where is this risk coming from (market, firm, industry or currency)? How is the risk profile changing?
15. What return would you have earned investing in this company's stock? Would you have under- or outperformed the market? How much of the performance can be attributed to management?
16. What is the company's cost of equity?
17. What is the company's cost of debt?
18. What is the company's current cost of capital?
19. Is there a typical project for your company (e.g., a drug for a pharmaceutical company)? If yes, what does it look like in terms of life (long term or short term), investment needs and cash flow patterns?
20. How good are the projects that the company has on its books currently?
21. Are the projects in the future likely to look like the projects in the past? Why or why not?
22.What are the different kinds or types of financing that your company has used to raise funds? Where do they fall in the continuum between equity and debt?
23.How large, in qualitative terms, are the advantages and disadvantages to this company from using debt?
24.From the qualitative trade off, does this firm look like it has too much or too little debt?
25. Based upon the cost of capital approach, what is the optimal debt ratio for your firm?
26. What type of financing should this firm use? Should it be short term or long term?
27. What currency should it be in?
What special features should the financing have?
Assignment 2- Catalent to acquire gummies firm Bettera Holdings for $1B
1.To evaluate the effectiveness of catalent acquisition with Bettera in oral and soft gel Technologies
To determine the impact of Catalent acquisition with Bettera Globally in nutraceutical market…
3. How will Acquisition of Catalent + Bettera is eliminating competitors and gaining competitiveness?

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