Content 1. Company info • Brief coy history • Current coy’s standing - Share price, organization breakdown / subsidiaries coy, Mainstream revenue, Vision and mission, world wide economy in regards to the same industry. (Porter’s Five Forces Framework, financial ratios to supplement the quantitative analysis, Balance sheet, P & L) • Compare with competitors – with in Porter’s five. • Current issues facing the company, the industry it operates in, and estimate the impact of the issues on the
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Corporate Finance II Lecture 04 Shama-e Zaheer Risk and Return Risk is the variability of returns from any asset. The greater the risk, the greater the required return from the asset. Therefore, in order to find the required return from any asset we need to know its risk and match that risk to another asset (or portfolio of assets) with a known return and use that as the opportunity cost of capital for the risky asset. Required Return, or, ri = Risk-free Rate (RFR) + Risk Premium (RP)
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Microeconomics–Midterm Solution. August 21, 2009 1. The elasticity of demand is given by E d = percentage change in quantity demanded percentage change in price . (a) The elasticity of demand for roasted coffee is given by d ERC = 75−70 70 10.35−10.48 10.35 = −5.68681. ∆Q ∆P The linear demand curve can be written as Q = A − BP where B = Hence, the linear demand curve is Q = 473.077 − 36.4615P . (b) The elasticity of demand for instant coffee is given by d EIC = 820−850 820 4
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Running Header: Guillermo Furniture Store Concepts Paper Guillermo Furniture Store Concepts Paper Guillermo Furniture Store is a company that manufacturers furniture in Mexico. The store is owned by Mr. Guillermo Navallez. The location of the store is prime, in that Mr. Navallez can take advantage of cheap labor, cheap housing, and an ideal weather situation. For a very long time, Guillermo Furniture Store had few competitors, which allowed him to utilize a high markup percentage.
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portfolio includes all of his/her assets and liabilities. • The relationship between the returns of assets in the portfolio is important since the returns from these investments interact with each other. Risk Aversion • Portfolio Theory assumes investors are basically risk averse. • Risk aversion means an investor, given a choice between two assets with equal rates of return, will select the asset with the lower level of risk. • Does not imply everybody is risk averse. • Most investors when committing
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CHAPTER 9 Behavioural Finance and the Psychology of Investing “The investor’s chief problem, and even his worst enemy, is likely to be himself.” —Benjamin Graham “There are three factors that influence the market: Fear, Greed, and Greed.” —Market folklore Be honest: Do you think of yourself as a better than average driver? If you do, you are not alone. About 80 percent of the people who are asked this question will say yes. Evidently, we tend to overestimate our abilities behind the wheel
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72 (2009) 147–152 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jebo Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases Jörg Oechssler a,∗ , Andreas Roider a , Patrick W. Schmitz b a b Department of Economics, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany Department of Economics, University of Cologne, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o
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4/27/2003 CHAPTER 4 MINI CASE SITUATION Assume that you recently graduated with a major in finance, and you just landed a job as a financial planner with Barney Smith Inc., a large financial services corporation. Your first assignment is to invest $100,000 for a client. Because the funds are to be invested in a business at the end of 1 year, you have been instructed to plan for a 1 year holding period. Further, your boss has restricted you to the following
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Topic: Ambiguity Aversion By - Group 5 Monysh Bandeally (07) Warada Bhagwat (08) Sayali Bhanage (10) Saona Bhattacharya (12) Shobhit Mishra
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Holding Period Return HPR=(Ending price-Beginning price+Dividend during period one)/(Beginning price)=(P_1-P_0+D_1)/P_0 Dividend Yield: % return from dividends Expected Return and Standard Deviation E(r)=∑_s▒〖p_s r_s 〗 σ=√(∑_s▒〖p_s (r_s-E(r))〗^2 ) Expected end-of-year value of the investment =Dividend+Ending Price Arithmetic and Geometric Averages Arithmetic Mean (AM) =(∑▒HPR)/N Better predictor of future performance Geometric Mean (GM) = π(1+HPR) )^(1/N)-1 Better measure of past
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