Value A dollar received today is worth more than a dollar received in the future. Conversely, a dollar received in the future is worth less than a dollar received today. Principle 2: There Is a Risk-Return Tradeoff We won’t take on additional risk unless we expect to be compensated with additional return. Principle 3: Cash Flows Are the Source of Value Cash flow measures the amount of cash that can actually be taken out of the business over an interval of time. As a result, it is the source of
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Corporate Bonds: Background Bonds may be registered (bondholder’s name is kept in a file) or held as bearer bonds (anyone possessing the bond may sell it or collect interest payments and face value). Each bond round of sales is called a “series.” So the company’s Series M bond issue might have occurred in 2003; and its Series N issue might have taken place in 2005. It might be that the total amount the company raised in its Series M equaled $600 million; and the amount raised (borrowed) in its
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Text Problem Sets - Week Two Vaughan Thompson FIN/571: Corporate Finance April 22, 2013 Text Problem Sets: FIN/571 - Week Two Chapter Five Question # 4 Define the following terms: bond indenture, par value, principal, maturity, call provision, and sinking fund. Bond indenture. Bond indenture is a legal contract for a publicly traded bond. The structure of this contract outline incentives explicitly by detailing responsibilities, constraints, penalties, and oversight required. For example
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last dividend (D0) was $3.12, and dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of 5.8% in the foreseeable future. Harry Davis’s beta is 1.2, the yield on T-bonds is 5.6%, and the market risk premium is estimated to be 6%. For the own-bond-yield-plus judgmental-risk-premium approach, the firm uses a 3.2% risk premium. (5) Harry Davis’s target capital structure is 30% long-term debt, 10% preferred stock, and 60% common equity. To help you structure the task, Leigh Jones has asked you to answer
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Case Study #1 1) In order to calculate the expected return, risk premium, and standard deviation of theportfolio invested partly in the market and partly in Pioneer, we first needed to devise a table with all of the known variables: Table 1 Pioneer Gypsum (X) Market (Y) Expected Return 11.0% 12.5% Standard Dev. 32% 16% Beta 0.65 N/A The calculation of the expected return, risk premium and the standard deviation of theportfolio are dependent upon the amount that John wants to invest. For example
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SECTOR’S EQUITY RETURNS: THE IRANIAN CASE by ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of oil and gas prices on transportation and storage sector’s equity returns in Iran. To this end, we analyze Iranian transportation and storage sector index for the period from the first week of January 2005 until the third week of March 2010. Based on the multifactor model and using time-series regression, our findings indicate that oil price is not an important determinant of returns in transportation
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7 DIVIDEND DISCOUNT MODEL 8 EARNINGS PER SHARE FORECAST 9 RISK-RETURN ANALYSIS (CAPM) 10 TECHNICAL STANDPOINT 12 IS HI-P A BUY?
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Would you invest in DFA? Yes due to steady returns provided by the company and as investors are generally past performance chasers, one has no reason not to invest in DFA. The company was founded on a sound investment style based on its core belief in sound academic research, passive fund management. Until almost the end of the 20th century DFA had found a way to make money actively with a passive investment strategy. But looking forward, according to me it needs to evolve with the times
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QN 4 The cost of capital is a central concept in financial management linking the investment and financing decisions. Hence, it should be calculated correctly and used properly in investment evaluation. Despite this injunction, we find that several errors characterize the application of this concept. The more common misconceptions, along with suggestions to overcome them are discussed below; The concept of cost of capital is too academic or impractical. Some companies do not calculate the cost of
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expected return is positively related to its beta. 2. In practice, the market portfolio is often represented by: A. a portfolio of U.S. Treasury securities. B. a diversified stock market index. C. an investor's mutual fund portfolio. D. the historic record of stock market returns. 3. A stock's beta measures the: A. average return on the stock. B. variability in the stock's returns compared to that of the market portfolio. C. difference between the return on the stock and return on the market
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