generally thought of as the process of buying an item in one market and simultaneously selling it at a higher price in another market and thus earning a riskless profit. MM broadened this concept. They show, under a set of assumptions, that personal debt can be used to cause the risk of two different stocks to be the same but the returns on the stocks can be different. Then, one could buy the cheaper stock and simultaneously sell the more expensive one and end up earning a riskless profit. Using
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Debt, Equity, and Taxes By Deen Kemsley* Columbia University and Yale University and Michael G. Williams** University of California, Los Angeles January 10, 2002 We express appreciation for insightful comments from Antonio Bernardo, David Bradford, Roger Gordon, Larry Glosten, Rick Green, Glenn Hubbard, Jack Hughes, Michael Kirschenheiter, Stephen Penman, and workshop participants at the Columbia University Burton Conference and the Yale School of Management Faculty Workshop. Professor
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customers in the North American market. Financial strategy Since the 1960s, Massey had been engaged in aggressive operation expansion and asset acquisition. The leverage was increasing since the new investment was mainly financed with short term debt. From Exhibit 4, we learn that Net Property, plant and equipment rose from $168 million in 1971 to $519 million in 1976, more than tripled. During the same years, the LTD
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Project Financing Asset-Based Financial Engineering Second Edition JOHN D. FINNERTY, Ph.D. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Project Financing Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons is the oldest independent publishing company in the United States. With offices in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, Wiley is globally committed to developing and marketing print and electronic products and services for our customers’ professional and personal knowledge and understanding. The Wiley Finance
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5 1.2.2 Woolworth 5 2. Capital Structures 6 2.1 Types of Funding 6 2.2 Recent Trends of Leverage 7 2.3 Comparison of capital structure with similar companies 9 2.4 Capital expenditures and its financing 10 2.5 Important factors influencing the use of debt financing 10 2.5.1 Tax Advantage 10 2.5.2 Corporate Tax Rate 11 2.5.3 Credit rating 11 2.5.4 Interest rate 11 2.5.5 Company’s Industry 12 2.5.6 Company’s growth rate 12
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acquisition, Verizon also grew considerably through investments in technology and infrastructure. Over a five-year period from 2003-2007, Verizon invested more than $74 billion to maintain, upgrade, and expand its technology infrastructure. Verizon’s debt securities are reported on the company’s balance sheet as either current or noncurrent assets depending on their maturity date.
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device memory market, based in San Jose. Like many others Silicon Valley society was founded during the high tech boom of the 90s. All the founders cover the top management positions and owned the entire company’s equity. Its success was mainly due to a specialization in a niche of the market that allows it to compete with bigger and more consolidated companies. The lifecycle of their product is quite short and reflect a market with constant and quick
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sources, ranging from equity, various forms of debt, to internally generated funds through retained earnings which would otherwise be distributed to shareholders (Myers and Myers, 1991; J. Gitman, 1991). The sources of finance can be classified as Internal and External, Short-term and Long-term or Equity and Debt (Bromwich & Bhimani, 2009, pp.45). The two main sources of finance for business include internal and external sources. The business managers decide which form of financing to be used in the
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2012 Net Operating Profit After Tax | 2012 Net Operating Assets | 2011 Net Operating Assets | 2012 Stockholders’ Equity | 2011 Stockholder’s Equity | Intel | INTC | $53,341 | $11,005 | $10,857 | $42,065 | $37,843 | $51,203 | $45,911 | s a. Compute the 2012 return on equity (ROE) and the 2012 return on net operating assets (RNOA). ROE = Net Income/Average stockholder’s Equity = 11,005/[(51,203 + 45,911)/2] = 11,005/48,557 = 22.66% RNOA = Net Operating Profit
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