Can anyone help me with pitching a stock (NOT) to buy and DCF for a club I'm interviewing for

I applied for a student org and made it to the second round of interviews, and they gave me a list of 5 stocks and they want me to determine which one they should not buy and pitch it over zoom to them later this week. I'm a freshman and have never done this before and don't really know where to start. I've started studying those 400 questions but it's not exactly helping me right now. I need any and all help anyone can give me... I would really appreciate it!

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Post the tickers here and people will be able to pick holes in the macro / industry outlook, maybe give you a few company-specific tidbits. I'm sure all 5 will have somewhat obvious downsides, so may be worth just picking one and digging in even without outside help.

For the analytical piece, you'll probably just want to do a simple DCF and tweak the assumptions a bit such that you show the stock price has little-to-no upside. Again, this should work with any of the companies since DCFs are so sensitive. May also be worth looking at comps to see where they're trading and then argue there's something wrong with the relative multiple.

 

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