Giving some background context into my first post on this blog (thanks Samuel for setting this up), I have always been interested in looking at stocks and their direction but I never really got around to doing a financial model or performing a more rigorous analysis. I think the lack of due diligence into the stocks speaks a lot into my investment performance to date, which has been lagging market indices thus far. I hope that through this process of doing up a financial model and an equity research report, I can instill more clarity into my thought process and better ready myself for a possible investment career. With regards to the company Tailored Brands, I was introduced to this company by a friend, Hong Yi, who told me he was looking at this stock because it was very undervalued. I decided to look further into this as I felt that this was a company with a business model that was easy to understand since it was focused mainly in apparel retail, unlike conglomerates. Upon lookin...