Corporate Finance Flashcards
Lessons from capital market history
There is a reward for bearing risk.
Greater the risk, Greater the reward.
It is called risk return trade-off
Total Dollar Return
Income from investment + Capital gain
Dividend Yield (PR)
Income / Beginning Price
Capital Gains Yield
(Ending p - Beginning p) - Beginning p
Total Percentage Returns
Dividend Yield - Capital Gains Yield
Importance of Financial Markets
Businesses have to go to financial markets and institutions for the financing they need to GROW.
5 Important Types of Financial Markets
Large Company Stocks, Small “, Long Term Corporate Bonds, Long Term US government bonds, US Treasury Bills
Best Guess About the size of the RETURN for a year selected Random
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Risk-free rate
the Rate of Return that can be earned with CERTAINTY.
Risk Premium
the excess return required from an investment in a risky asset over that required from a risk-free investment.
Variability Measured by Standard Deviation
It measure the uncertainty of asset returns, GREATER THE UNCERTAINTY, GREATER THE TOTAL RISK.
Standard Deviation
Square root of the VAR(R)
Variance
VAR(R)
Arithmetic Average
Return earned in an AVERAGE PERIOD over MULTIPLE PERIODS
Geometric Average
Average COMPOUND RETURN per period over MULTIPLE PERIODS
Arithemtic Average is
Overly optimistic for LONG HORIZONS
Geometric average is
Overly pessimisticfor SHORT HORIZONS
EFM (Efficent Market Hypothesis)
New info. is assimilated quickly & correctly into financial asset prices.
When Financial Markets are Efficent?
When new info becomes available, people buy and sell stocks and bonds try to incorporate new info into their estimates of the security.
According to EFM,
Stock prices are in equilibrium, Stocks are fairly priced informational efficiency.
What Makes Markets Efficent?
As new info comes to market it is being analyzed and trades are made based on this info. Prices should reflect all available public info. IF INVESTORS STOP researching stocks, then the market WONT be efficent.
Strong-Form Efficent Market
Info is Public or Private, INSIDE INFO IS BEING USED.
Semistrong-form Efficent Market
Info is publicly available. Fundamental ANALYSIS IS BEING USED.
Weak Form Efficent Market
Info is past prices and volume data. Technical ANALYSIS IS OF LITTLE USE.
Common Misconceptions about EMH
EM do not mean that you can’t make money, They do mean that: on average you will earn a return that is appropriate for the risk undertaken.
Market efficiency will not protect you from wrong choices if you do not diversify.
Portfolios
It is a collection of assets, An asset’s risk and return is how they effect the risk and return of a portfolio. The risk-return trade-off for a portfolio is measured by the portfolio expected return adn standard deviation, JUST AS WITH INDIVIDUAL ASSETS.
Expected Return on a Portfolio
Wealth-weighted average of the returns expected from the assets held in the portfolio.
Portfolio Variance
The combination of the WEALTH-WEIGHTED AVERAGE of the variances of the two assets and their covariance.
Systematic Risk
Component of total risk which is due to economy-wide factors.
Non-systematic Risk
Component of total risk which is unique to an asset or firm.
Diversification (Formula)
Total Risk = Systematic Risk + Nonsystematic Risk