Easy company to model?
What are considered easier industries to model?
I have to do one for a class project and don't want to do a conglomerate or a financial company.
Although I don't know if this will be 'easier,' I am thinking something like Sprint
Any suggestions?
How to Choose a Company to Model for a Class Project
Several WSO members have asked a similar question (see related reading below), so between these links you should be set for your next class project. Here are some specific tips from this thread:
- Small, unsophisticated company with limited debt profile
- Anything public, simply because you can get all the information you need
- Any retail business is relatively intuitive and should make for an easy business to project, ex: Underarmor, Nike, Mcdonalds, Leap Wireless
- A business you can visualized the drivers makes understanding how the model should work more manageable
- Chipotle
- McCormick
- Coach
- Walgreens
- CVS
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Small, unsophisticated company with limited debt profile
Anything public, simply because you can get all the information you need.
Microsoft their stock price hasn't moved in 5 years
WSTG
Sprint: Too Complicated of a Debt Structure.
MSFT: What does stock price have to do with modeling the business? Way to complicated to correctly model.
Any retail business is relatively intuitive and should make for an easy business to project. Underarmor, Nike, Mcdonalds, Leap Wireless. A business you can visualized the drivers makes understanding how the model should work more manageable.
Thanks, I like the retail idea
Chipotle.
Coach is easy as well as McCormick. TTS used Coach last year in training and McCormick this year.
Something in the retail sector, domestic, and without any outstanding debt.
Walgreens, CVS, etc.
Google is easy to model
Please elaborate. I would love to hear this one.
It's cooking the books only a matter of time until they go bust.
do any big public company with limited debt structure, something like microsoft, google with loads of cash
what kind of models are you talking about though? If you are doing full blown out operating / valuation models, tech companies will be tough to project out, whereas a retail company is probably easier
Businesses that are easy to model (Originally Posted: 09/06/2014)
Hi WSO,
For a course that I'm taking this semester I will have to build a lot of models (operating, DCF, lbo, m&a) for 1 company that I can choose freely. I was thinking to go for an American company that only operates in the USA (currency), and has only 1 business activity. Maybe like a retailer or something. Any suggestions?
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