Stanford Stock Pitch Competition Won by BHP Students
A team of McCombs School of Business students won Stanford University’s inaugural stock pitch competition.
Business Honors Program students Angela Yang, BBA ’21, Catherine Cheng, BBA ’20, Eric Sun, BBA ’20, and Alexander van Geenen, BBA ’21, successfully pitched Coherent Inc., a diversified industrial laser manufacturer, at last month’s competition hosted by the Stanford Finance student organization. The McCombs students placed first out of 18 teams.
“The judges were incredibly impressed by the quality of the pitch and happy to hear we were representing The University of Texas at Austin,” says Cheng.
To prepare for the competition, the team spent time in the McCombs School’s Financial Education and Research Center using Capital IQ, Bloomberg, and FactSet to gather information. “In fact, one of our judges was incredibly impressed by the amount of data we had access to as undergraduates,” says Cheng.
