Select a publicly traded company in the same industry as the company you work for or one that you would like to work in

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You are a financial analyst for a Fortune 500 company and you must present an analysis of the financial data to the executives. 

Select a publicly traded company in the same industry as the company you work for or one that you would like to work in.

Locate the company's annual report and any other available data (e.g. units manufactured, revenue, etc.) that is available for the last 5 years.

Use one of the company's historical data sets to calculate the standard deviation of the selected data for the last 5 years.

Discuss what the standard deviation means.

Analyze data using variance and standard deviation.

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NEWS CORP INC.
The analysis of the annual financial statements, the income statement, of the News Corp Inc.
yielded data as presented in the table below. This includes the analysis of the net income values
in million dollars for the years 2011-1015 and the analysis of the mean value, the standard
deviation as well as the variance.
YEAR
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
TOTAL
MEAN
STANDARD DEVATION
VARIANCE

NET INCOME
(MILLION $)
-149
237
506
1,179
2,739
4,512
902.4
1,135.224559
1,030,987.84

From this analysis, the net income values for the years 2011-2014 are not too far apart. There is
however a very high variation in the net income values of year 2015 from 2014. This value, -149
million dollars, can be consid...

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