1. Corporate Finance Flashcards
Modigliani Miler Proposition #1
No Tax: Capital Structure does not affect the Value of the Firm (Vlev = V unlev)
Tax: 100% Debt is NICE (Vlev = Vunlev + tD)
Modigliani Miller Assumption
- Homogeneous Expectations
- Perfect Capital Markets (no tax, no bankruptcy)
- Risk Free Rate
- No Agency Costs (monitoring, bonding)
- Independent Decisions
Modigliani Miller Proposition #2
No Tax: Higher Leverage increases Ke and offsets any debt effect. WACC not affected.
- Equation: Re = Ro + [(Ro - Rd) * D/E] and WACC is constant
W/ Tax: WACC is minimized @ 100% debt, even though more leverage increases Ke
Equation: Re = Ro + [(Ro - Rd) * D/E] * (1-t)
Modigliani Miller w/ Taxes
Equation: V(lev) = Vunlev + tD - FD
Equation 2: Re = Ro + [(Ro - Rd)*(1-t)] * D/E
Agency Costs
- Managers v. Shareholders
1) Monitoring (Auditor, BoD, Watching)
2) Bonding (Non-compete, Insurances Performance) - Residual Losses (Since 1 & 2 are not perfect)
Static Trade-Off Theory
From a certain point, adding debt will increase WACC, despite the tax shield provided by debt
Equation: V(lev) = Vunlev + tD - FD
Common Law
- Less Debt, More Equity
Civil Law
- More Debt, Less Equity
Consequences (Inflation, GDP)
- High inflation and low GDP worsen long-term investments
Dividend Types
1) Regular (may include DRP)
2) Extra / Special
3) Liquidating
3) Stock Dividend
DRP (Div Type)
- Div Cash -> Reinvestment
- Do NOT dilute EPS (if bought @ market price)
- Issuance
- Pros: empowerment of minorities, cheaper (no flotation), no transaction costs for participants
- Cons: more work record keeping, cash is STILL taxed
Dividend Impact in Balance Sheet
- Lower Cash
- Higher Leverage
Stock Split (Impacts)
- More qtd of shares
- Lower EPS and Dividend per Share
Equation V(unlev)
Equation: V(unlev) = EBT (1-t) / WACC
Calculate Re (cost of equity) after buyback
Re = Ro + [(Ro-Rd)*(1-t)] * Debt / Equity after Buyabck
Stock Dividend (Div Type)
- NO chg in value
- NO chg in % ownership
- NO chg in leverage because mkt value of equity does not change
- Cost PER share will be lower (but TOTAL cost remains flat)
- MORE liquidity
- LESS volatility
- ↓ Price
- ↓ Retained Earnings
- ↑ Contributed Capital
- ↓ EPS = ↑ Qt of Shares
- PRICE drops by [D*(1-td)]/(1-tcg)]
Stock Split (Div Type)
- Similar to stock dividend (non-cash)
- Does not affect P/E (double qtd of shares, so half of price, but also half of EPS)
Dividend Irrelevance
- If no tax, no transaction costs, no agency costs, no info assymetry
Bird in Hand Theory
- Investors prefer money in hand
Tax Aversion in Dividends (Implications)
- If Tcapgains < Tdiv, prefer capgains
- If Tcapgains > Tdiv, prefers CASH
- If Tcapgains = Tdiv, prefers CASH
Dividend Signs
- Dividend Initiation: ambiguous
- Unexpected Dividend Increase: revenues are strong
- Dividend Decrease: revenues are bad
Agency Costs
- Shareholders v. Mgrs: over or underinvestments due to preferences over less/more payout
- Shareholder v. Bondholder: Fight for CASH (payout, interest payment)
Factors affecting dividend policy
- Investment Opportunities
- Volatility of future earnings
- Financial flexibility (need for cash)
- Tax considerations
- Flotation costs
- Legal (covenants etc)
Tax Systems (Types)
- Double Taxation (@ corporate + @ individual)
- Split Rate (different rates for retained or distributed). Divs still taxed twice, but @ lower levels in comparison to Double
- Imputation (pay @ corporate, but due @ individual)