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Writing

an Equity Research Report

Assignment 3

Finding your investment idea: the three Cs


Use this checklist to review the current status of your research into your investment idea.

Client

What is your client looking for?

Strategy
Recent successes and failures (especially in relation to you or your company)
Mood (affected by external events and trends)

Company

Have you covered all the key aspects of the company’s performance?

Its accounts
Its products and services
Its management
Its selling practices
How well it manages its own business
Its relations with customers and suppliers
Its R&D capacity

Context

Think about four contextual factors.

Industry

Customers
Competitors
The international picture
The emerging names and new entrants
New trends, products, innovation
Who is in trouble and why

Government

Political developments
Power shifts
New regulations
The international political dimension

Market

What’s the current majority position?


Where are the minority reports?
Who is right and who is wrong?
Why?
How come you know better than the market?

Risk

economic risks
liquidity risks
political, legal, and environmental risks
business and management risks
financial risks

When you have collated your notes on these areas – or the areas that are relevant to the report
you’re working on – please return to Lecture 12.

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