eBusiness - No matter how good a website is, the website is useless if nobody comes to it. You need the traffic to make it a success. What e-marketing strategy or tactic has been the most successful among e-business today? Has it been fancy emails? How about search engines? Banners? Online games? While the best strategy may be a combination of more than one thing, which strategy stands ab...

Netscape's Initial Public Offering - Please see the attached background information about Netscape's IPO and provide a detailed response to the following: 1) Does Netscape need to go public to satisfy its capital needs over the next three to five years? If so, why? If not, why not? 2) As an investor in Netscape, you were willing to buy at the original price of $14 per share. Are you still will...

IPO - a. What is the average underpricing of this sample of IPOs? b. What is the average initial return on my "portfolio" of shares purchased from the four IPOs I bid on? Calculate the average initial return weighting by the amount of money invested in each issue. c. Why have I performed so poorly relative to the average initial return on the full sample of IPOs? What lesso...

Negative growth - a. If r = 15 percent and DIV1 = $3, what is the value of a share? b. What price do you forecast for the stock next year? c. What is the expected rate of return on the stock? d. Can you distinguish between "bad stocks" and "bad companies"? Does the fact that the industry is declining mean that the stock is a bad buy? a. What is the sustainable growth rate? b. What is ...

Finance questions - I NEED TOTALLY CONFUSSED AND DONT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WOTH IT. SO IF YOU CAN HELP ME OUT WOULD BE GREAT. 9. Break-Even. Dime a Dozen Diamonds makes synthetic diamonds by treating carbon. Each diamond can be sold for $100. The materials cost for a standard diamond is $30. The fixed costs incurred each year for factory upkeep and administrative expenses are $200,000. The machiner...