Nov 21, 2024  
College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
College Catalog 2024-2025

ECON 258 - Introduction to Securities Analysis


This course will primarily focus on equity securities analysis (stocks) from the perspective of institutional (Wall Street) investors. Topics will include industry analysis and forecasting, financial statement analysis, fundamental company analysis and valuation methods. Students will form industry groups and will each research a company in that industry. Students will build complete historical and projected financial statement models in Excel. The end product of the course will be a company report written by each student. This course counts as a Group B elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113   Alternate spring semesters. (4 Credits)