Debt and Value: Beyond MillerModigliani Aswath Damodaran Stern School of Business Aswath Damodaran 1 The fundamental question: Does the mix of debt and equity affect the value of a business? Assets Existing Investments Generate cashflows today Includes long lived (fixed) and short-lived(working capital) assets Expected Value that will be created by future investments Assets in Place Debt Liabilities Fixed Claim on cash flows Little or No role in management Fixed Maturity Tax
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Small ($300 million to $2 billion) Generally speaking, companies with smaller market caps are relatively new. This is a good thing, since they have a lot of room for expansion and growth. Although there is a risk that they will fail, if other fundamental factors are good, then there is a good chance the company will flourish. Companies with bigger market caps have already grown and will probably not have as much potential as smaller ones. Price – Under $20 There are two reasons I chose a low
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However, few of the parties to the debate appear concerned about these effects. The academic community is showing increasing dissatisfaction with the EMH, swayed partly by evidence that prices underreact to large earnings changes, ratios of prices to fundamentals, and other
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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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Week 5 Assignment José A. García Rosario The University of Phoenix FIN 571 - Foundations of Corporate Finance December 05, 2013 Prof. Ismael Torres-Pizarro Growth Rate The total numbers of copies that the publisher expects to sell in the year number three is 92,016 copies. The total numbers of copies that the publisher expects to sell in the year number four is 101,218 copies. 0 1 2 3
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TALPLACIDO, Diana Dee G. 02-19-2014 FINMAN 5B 1:30-2:30 MWF D522 “TESTS AND RESULTS IN EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS” a.) Weak Form EMH -Tests of “Statistical memory” in security prices and returns Statistical tests of independence between rates of return: * Autocorrelation tests- it is mostly support the weak-form EMH and indicates that price changes are random and some
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Capital IQ Plug-In DCF Creation Company Ticker Symbol YUM Company Name #NAME? Expected Tax Rate 40.00% Current Date 4/20/2014 Most Recent Fiscal Year End #NAME? DCF Instructions Historical Financials Expected Cash Flows 1 Enter Historical Financial Data Using CIQ Plug-In -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 2 Historical Margins
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Chapter 9 Stocks and Their Valuation Answers to End-of-Chapter Questions 9-1 a. The average investor of a firm traded on the NYSE is not really interested in maintaining his or her proportionate share of ownership and control. If the investor wanted to increase his or her ownership, the investor could simply buy more stock on the open market. Consequently, most investors are not concerned with whether new shares are sold directly (at about market prices) or through rights offerings.
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Group: Chia Ching Ng, Li Jing Lu Professor William C. Johnson FIN 315 Final assignment: Portfolio Project December 6, 2012 Portfolio Project We changed our strategy after the first interim report. We realized that it is hard to use “bottom-up” approach to invest by looking into a particular stock to invest. Right now, we are trying to use “top-down” approach to invest in our portfolio. Top-down approach is a method of analysis that involves looking at the "big picture" first, and then analyzing
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Chapter 8 Valuation of Company Shares: Earnings Based Methods The objectives of this chapter are to present the earnings based methods of share valuation, to critically appraise the available empirical evidence, and to provide examples of the problems, issues and limitations of share valuation. Chapter Outline • Overview of the relationship between earnings and value. • Compounding versus Discounting • Long Event Windows and Discounted/Compounded
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