Equity research - Lockheed Martin Corporation

Mestrado em FinançasEste projeto representa uma avaliação detalhada da Lockheed Martin Corporation, obedecendo à estrutura de Trabalho Final de Mestrado, neste caso projeto, do Mestrado de Finanças do ISEG. Este, foi escrito com base nas instruções dadas pelo CFA Institute. Escolher a LMT baseou-se, primeiramente no meu interesse pessoal sobre a indústria aeroespacial & defesa, que atualmente está a ganhar cada vez mais relevância, devido ao aumento das tensões geopolíticas, e segundamente, devido à LMT ser a maior empresa de defesa norte americana, e ao meu desejo de melhor entender como a empresa se organiza. Este relatório contempla informação disponível até 14 de outubro de 2020, e qualquer informação posterior não será refletida nesta avaliação. O preço alvo foi calculado usando o método de avaliação absoluta, o Discount Cash Flow Method (DCF), e sustentado pelo Dividend Discount Model (DDM), Adjusted Present Value (APV) e por métodos de avaliação relativa. É expectável para o fim de 2021 que o preço alvo seja $480,05, representando um potencial de 23$390,72. Os maiores riscos associados à LMT são a elevada dependência do Governo, o impacto do Covid-19 e a disrupção da cadeia de abastecimento. Portanto, tendo em conta este potencial de subida como de médio risco, a nossa recomendação é no sentido de compra.This project represents a detailed valuation of Lockheed Martin Corporation, guided by the structure of ISEG?s Master of Finance final work project. It also was written following the recommendations of the CFA Institute. The reason behind choosing LMT lies on, primarily, to my personnel interest on the Aerospace & Defense industry, which is becoming more and more relevant nowadays, due to the increasing geopolitical tensions, and secondly due to LMT being the biggest defense player in the USA, and my desire to better understand the organization. This report contemplates only the information available until October 14, 2020, any information or event after this specific date will not be reflected on this valuation. The price target was calculated using the absolute valuation method, the Discounted Cash Flow Method (DCF), and was supplement by the Dividend Discount Method (DDM), Adjusted Present Model (APV) and relative valuation method. It is expected that at the end of 2021 the target price will be $480,05/sh, representing a potential upside of 23$390,72/sh. The main risks associated with LMT's operations are the Governance dependence, Covid-19 impact, and Supply Chain disruption. Thus, taking this upside potential in consideration as a medium risk associated with this company, our recommendation is to buy.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data