L’Oreal ---due diligence and financial plan Name: Rui GU Xue BIAN Qian LU Meng NIU Di ZHU Course: Financial Management 1 Background L'Oreal group, established in 1909, based in Clichy, France, is the largest and leading Beauty Company in the world, generating a very inclusive range of cosmetics and personal care products internationally
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-1? “ The Aim of the Course To develop and apply technologies for valuing firms and for strategic planning to generate value within the firm. • • Features of the approach: A disciplined approach to valuation: minimizes ad hockery – Built on theoretical and empirical findings from scientific research I ‘_ Marries fundamental analysis and financial statement analysis – Exploits accounting as a system for measuring value added – Exposes good (and “bad”) accounting from a valuation perspective
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changing market returns __________ probability distribution shows all possible outcomes and associated probabilities for a given event * o A continuous o An expected value o A discrete o A bar chart A beta coefficient of 0 represents an asset that * o is less responsive than the market portfolio o has the same response as the market portfolio o is more responsive than the market portfolio o is unaffected by market movement The financial manager's goal for the firm is to create
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Anthony Martin BUS3062 Prof. Jen Schnaible * Question 1: * Proficient-level: "Why is expected return considered forward-looking? What are the challenges for practitioners to utilize expected return?" (Cornett, Adair, & Nofsinger, 2016, p. 258). Expected return is considered “forward-looking” because it is the return investors expect to receive in the future. This comes in the form of compensation for the market risk taken. The challenge that practitioners face in utilizing
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Chapter 7—Risk, Return, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Suppose Sarah can borrow and lend at the risk free-rate of 3%. Which of the following four risky portfolios should she hold in combination with a position in the risk-free asset? a. portfolio with a standard deviation of 15% and an expected return of 12% b. portfolio with a standard deviation of 19% and an expected return of 15% c. portfolio with a standard deviation of 25% and an expected return of 18% d. portfolio
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CHAPTER 5 Risk and Rates of Return Stand-alone risk Portfolio risk Risk & return: CAPM / SML 5-1 Investment returns The rate of return on an investment can be calculated as follows: Return = (Amount received – Amount invested) ________________________ Amount invested For example, if $1,000 is invested and $1,100 is returned after one year, the rate of return for this investment is: ($1,100 - $1,000) / $1,000 = 10%. 5-2 What is investment risk? Two
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more volatile than the market price. Investors that are conservative and keen in preserving capital should therefore focus on securities and portfolios with low betas. On the other hand, if the investor is out for risk with higher returns, they should focus on investments with high betas. Advantages Beta has a couple of advantages especially in the role that it plays in Capital Asset Pricing Model assessment of risk. It is easy to work with beta since it gives a clear and quantifiable measure
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Copyright c 2005 by Karl Sigman 1 Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) We now assume an idealized framework for an open market place, where all the risky assets refer to (say) all the tradeable stocks available to all. In addition we have a risk-free asset (for borrowing and/or lending in unlimited quantities) with interest rate rf . We assume that all information is available to all such as covariances, variances, mean rates of return of stocks and so on. We also assume that everyone
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Corporate Finance The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the rate that a company is expected to pay on average to all its security holders to finance its assets. Nike finances its assets either through debt or with equity. WACC is the average of the costs of these types of financing, each of which is weighted by its proportionate use. By taking a weighted average in this way, we can determine how much interest a company owes for each dollar it finances
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Competitors 5 2.6. Industry and Economic Trends Analysis 6 3. SWOT Analysis 7 4. Valuation 11 4.1. Weighted Average Cost of Capital 11 4.1.1. Re: Cost of Equity 12 4.1.2. Rd * (1-Tc): Cost of Debt 14 4.2. Pro Forma Forecasting 16 4.3. Discounted Cash Flow Valuation 19 4.4 Earning Valuation 21 4.5 Relative P/E Ratio Model 23 4.6 Synergy 26 5. Outcome and process of negotiations 28 6. References 30 7. Appendices 31 Executive Summary The purpose
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