Economic Analysis of a Domestic Firm

Select a Fortune 500 company (https://fortune.com/global500/search/). Look up the company’s annual report. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies) conveniently provides links to the annual reports for these companies). In the “reports” column, find the most recent Annual Report, sometimes called a Form 10-K or just “10-K”). In a paper (you might find this article about how to read an annual report (https://www.wikihow.com/Read-an-Annual-Report) helpful for reading an annual report:

• Identify background information on the company, including the company name, ticker (stock) symbol, GICS Sector, and GICS Sub Industry.
• Summarize the products the company produces and sells, and who their target customers are.
• Describe factors that could shift the demand curve for the company’s product(s) (see the risk factors discussed in the K-10).
• Describe factors that could shift the supply curve for the company’s product(s) (see the risk factors discussed in the K-10).
• Describe whether the company’s product(s) would be expected to have an elastic demand or inelastic demand.
• Discuss the firm’s profitability with an explanation of the difference between accounting profit and economic profit.
• Examine the costs the company incurs and discuss whether the majority of costs are fixed or variable in nature.
• Describe the market structure that best describes the market the firm is in.
• Analyze how the market structure affects the profitability and pricing power of the firm.
• Include at least five scholarly references in addition to the course textbook

(Mankiw, N.G. (2018). Principles of microeconomics – 8th ed. Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning).

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