Chapter 9: Equity Securities Flashcards

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What does leveraged mean?

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Has some debt in its capital structure

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What is capital structure?

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Company’s composition of debt and equity capital

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What represents an ownership interest in a company or similar legal entity?

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Common share

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3
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Which kind of shareholder has voting rights?

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Common

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4
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Which kind of owners will receive dividends before common shareholders?

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Preferred

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What is capital structure priority of claims?

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Debt, preferred, common

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What is limited liability?

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Higher claimants particularly debt investors cannot recover money from personal assets of shareholders of company’s assets are insufficient to fully cover their claims

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What is par value?

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Stated value or face value of equity security

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What is main type of equity securities?

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Common stock

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What is a security representing an economic interest in a foreign company that trades like a common stock on a local stock exchange?

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Global depository receipt

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10
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What kind of bond issued by a company that offers the bond holder he right to convert the bond into a pre specified number of common shares?

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Convertible bond

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What is an equity like security that entitles the holder to buy a pre specified amount of common stock of the issuing company at a press specified stock price, called the exercise price or strike price, prior to a pre specified expiration date?

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Warrant

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What is market risk or risk created by general economic conditions that affect all risky investments?

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Systematic

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What is company specific risk associated with investing in a particular company or security?

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Unsystematic

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14
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What is valuation approach that takes into account the time value of money?

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Discounted cash flow

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What approach estimates value of common share by using multiples based on prices and some other measure for publicly traded, comparable equity securities?

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Relative valuation

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What is price to earnings ratio?

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Ratio of company’s stock prices to its earnings per share

17
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What approach estimates value of common equity by calculating difference between a company’s total assets and it’s outstanding liabilities?

A

Asset based valuation

18
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What is rights offering?

A

Existing shareholders receive preemptive rights to purchase new shares

19
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What replaces one existing common share with a specified number of common shares?

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Stock split