You are hired as an external consultant to carry out

You are hired as an external consultant to carry out the following analyses and produce a report. Your assigned company is NewCrest Mining (NCM). The company is categorised as Materials under the GICS ASX Sector.Your task is to review the company capital structure decisions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. You may assume that the impact of the pandemic began in March, 2020. You are required to identify three peer companies for comparison analysis. The peer companies may be chosen using the Peer Firms worksheet in companies.xlsx?(this was for Question 1); Q1+Q2 were asked in separate posts.NB: We are required to find all the relevant data by ourselves. We are not given anything except for the list of Peer Firms to choose from (which was for Question 1).