Lakeland College: Stock Analysis of Intel, Comcast, and Xcel Energy

This economics assignment provides an analysis of three companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange: Intel Corporation, Comcast Corporation, and Xcel Energy Inc. The report details each company's business, including Intel's role as a major computer chip producer, Comcast's position as a telecommunications conglomerate, and Xcel Energy's utility services. It explores how macroeconomic factors, such as changes in earnings, bank policies, exchange rates, and crude oil prices, influence the stock market and the performance of these companies. The assignment also touches upon customer satisfaction issues related to Comcast and the overall financial performance of each company, highlighting fluctuations in stock prices and revenue.

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This report selects three companies, which are listed in New York Stock Exchange Index. These
are Intel Corporation., Comcast Corporation and Xcel Energy Inc. In the following section, the
report will analyse nature of business of these three companies.
Intel Corporation:
Intel Corporation is an America based multinational company, which becomes the
second largest producer of computer chip. The company supplies processors to some well known
computer manufacturers, such as Lenovo, Apple, Dell and HP. The company also produces
network interface controllers, motherboard, chipsets and flash memory. In addition to this, Intel
also manufactures flash memory, embedded processors and graphics chips related to computing
and communications1. The fluctuation is the stock market of Intel was due to changes in the
earnings. Changes in the policies of the banks will also affect the market for stock prices2.
1 Cacciatore, Matteo, and Giuseppe Fiori. "The macroeconomic effects of goods and labor markets deregulation."
Review of Economic Dynamics 20 (2016): 1-24.
2 Microeconomics, Economics Education. "KELVIN WONG." Cell 808 (2015): 386-8406.

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Comcast Corporation:
3Comcast Corporation is an America based company. This international
telecommunication conglomerate is the second largest company of cable television and
broadcast. Comcast Corporation is a kind of public company and is a telecommunications mass
media. The revenue collected in the year 2017 was US $84.526 million. The headquarter of
Comcast is Philadephia. Comcast had also been criticized for many kind of reasons since it has
been known that the customer satisfaction had been ranking lowest in the cable industry. the
market share had also increase at high rate and is also known to be one of the largest operator of
cable television operator. As stock prices changes each day as a result of the market forces as a
result of changes in supply and demand4. As a result of change in the exchange rates there had
been fluctuation in the stock market. It will influence the value of the company. The volatility of
the rate of exchange will be affecting the performance of the stock in Comcast Corporation.
3 Baumol, William J., and Alan S. Blinder. Microeconomics: Principles and policy. Nelson Education, 2015.
4 Mankiw, N. Gregory. Principles of macroeconomics. Cengage Learning, 2014.

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Xcel Energy Inc.
Xcel Energy Inc is a kind of utility holding capacity which is based in Minneapolis and
serving more than three million electric consumers along with one million gas customers in New
Mexico in the year 20175. The macroeconomy has a huge effect in the fluctuation of the stock
returns and it is also known that the stock market has always been a significant area in the field
of both finance and economics. There had been changes in the stock returns when there had been
changes in the price of the crude oil. With the change in the price of crude oil there had been
fluctuation in the stock market. This company is basically of electricity and of utility of Natural
Gas. This particular company was chosen since it was a public company and there had been
fluctuation in the stock prices. The overall revenue in the year 2017 was US$11.40 billion6.
There had been fluctuation in the stock market since the individual stocks which will make the
stock market fluctuate.
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Bauer, Mr James R. "Principles of microeconomics." (2018).
6 Gay, Robert D. "Effect of macroeconomic variables on stock market returns for four emerging economies: Brazil,
Russia, India, and China." The International Business & Economics Research Journal (Online) 15.3 (2016): 119.

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Reference list
Bauer, Mr James R. "Principles of microeconomics." (2018).
Baumol, William J., and Alan S. Blinder. Microeconomics: Principles and policy. Nelson
Education, 2015.
Cacciatore, Matteo, and Giuseppe Fiori. "The macroeconomic effects of goods and labor markets
deregulation." Review of Economic Dynamics 20 (2016): 1-24.
Gay, Robert D. "Effect of macroeconomic variables on stock market returns for four emerging
economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China." The International Business & Economics Research
Journal (Online) 15.3 (2016): 119.
Mankiw, N. Gregory. Principles of macroeconomics. Cengage Learning, 2014.
Microeconomics, Economics Education. "KELVIN WONG." Cell 808 (2015): 386-8406.