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This 19 page paper examines the US company Adaptec, the paper gives a brief background to the company before an in-depth examination the financial performance between 2003 – 2005, the stock performance over the same period and then considering how the company may perform over in following years. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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19 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEadeptec.rtf
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1. Introduction When an acquisition is considered the target company needs to be assessed careful to ensure that the investment is a good investment decision
and that it is being purchased at a fair or beneficial price. The use of the historical data as well as looking at the potential market for the company in
the future can then be used to consider the potential future performance. If a fictitious company is considering making an acquisition bid for the US company Adaptec based in Milpitas,
California. This report will first give a brief overview of the company in order that the remaining paper will make sense. The main body will then consider the financial performance
of Adaptec and then look at the performance of the stock and then look at the possible future performance of the company. 2. Adaptec. Adaptec is a well established
company with a good reputation for pushing forward technological developments (PC Week, 1990). The company deals with a range of technological tools including data storage solutions as well as a
variety of interoperable chips and add-in cards that will allow data migration between internal and external points (Adaptec, 2005). The company has been a first mover when the opportunity has
arisen, developing the pioneered SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), as well as driving forward RAID technology to make it more affordable for the mainstream market (Adaptec, 2005). It is with
the use of these core competences and the adoption of new technology such as Serial Attached SCSI and fibre optics (Adaptec, 2005). 3. Financial Performance 2003 and YTD 2005
There are many ways in which we can measure the development of a company, we can look at the financial results vertically or horizontally, campaign different figures n the same
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