Final-Term Flashcards

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Value Investors

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If you pick a stock based on the value of the underlying company that issues it

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Growth investors

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Seek companies that offer strong earnings-growth

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The total market valuation of a company’s stock

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Referred to its market cap/ market capitalization

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Market cap

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Share price (market value) X Total # of shares outstanding

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5
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Market valuation

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Its not always a good indicator of a good investment.

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Book Value (accounting Value)

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Looks at a company from a balance sheet perspective
- assets - liabilities = net worth/ stockholders equity

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Intrinsic value

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The market price of a company’s assets minus sum of a company’s liabilities
- Directly tied to its ability to make money

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The market-to-book
Price-to-book (PBR)

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Measure of how highly valued the firm is.
- Stock price / BPS

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Book value per share (BPS)

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Divide the company’s book value by number of shares it has outstanding

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Overvalued

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The closer the stock’s market capitalization is to the book value, the safer the investment.

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2 common barometers of value are expressed in ratios

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  1. Price to sales ratio (PSR)
  2. Price to earnings ratio (PER)
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Net worth/ net equity

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Assets - Liabilities

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Comparative analysis

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Compare a company’s balance sheet at a recent point in time to the past

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Income statement

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Find out about what a company’s profit is

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Net Profit (net earnings, Net income)

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Sales - expenses

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Sales

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The money that a company receives as customers buy its good and/or services

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Top line analysis

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Analyzing a business by looking at its sales

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Accounts receivable

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Refers to money that is owned to the company for goods that customers have purchased on credit.

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Financial Ratio

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A helpful numerical tool that you can use to find out the relationshop between 2 or more figures found in company’s financial data

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20
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Price to earnings ratio (P/E)

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Very important in analyzing a potential stock investment.
- Also known as the earnings multiple
- multiple

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Danger of with high P/E?

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The company doesn’t achieve the hoped-for results, the stock price can fall

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TTM

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Trailing P/E, Trailing Twelve Months
- Deals with existing data
- The most recent 12 months of earnings

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Forward P/E

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Projections or expectations of earnings
- The upcoming 12 months period
- Looks into the near future

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Low P/E Ratio

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Aren’t necessarily a sign of bargain
- But for many other reasons that seem positively, low P/E Ratio is a good sign.

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High P/E Ratio

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Aren’t necessarily bad

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PSR

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Price to Sales Ratio is a company’s stock price divided by it sales
- Total market value / total sales for the last 12 months
- Sales number is rarely expressed as per -share figure

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MegaTrend

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A major development that has huge implications for much of society for a long time to come

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Growth stock

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Company not only is growing, but also performing well with some consistency

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Fundamental

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Financial condition and related data

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ROE

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Return on Equity
- Dividing the earning by equity
- The higher the percentage, the better

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2 additional barometer of success

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  • Company’s growth earnings
  • Growth of Equity
32
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Insider buying

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The purchase of shares in a corporation by a director, officer or executive within the company
- Not a crime when buying is based on public information

33
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Insider trading

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It can happen, when corporate officers, executives, or board members know new products, merger negotiations, or other reasons that could cause prices to move higher.
- Corporate insiders making illegal stock purchases based on non-public information

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Income stocks

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Higher than average dividends
- Takes dual role that can not only appreciate, but provide regular income
- Tends to be among the least volatile stocks
○ Might view them as defensive stocks.

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Dividend

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Money paid out to the owner of the stocks
- Payouts to owners
- Annual number

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Interest

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Payment to creditors
- Bond holders
- Bank account holders

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Yield

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The percentage rate of return paid on a stock in the form of dividends.

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Dividend yield

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Dividend income/ stock investment

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Payout ratio

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Dividend (per share) / earnings (per share)
- To figure out what percentage of a company’s earnings is being paid out in the form of dividends

40
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Junk bonds

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Bs/ Cs indicate poor grade, considered very risky, non-investment grade

41
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Mutual fund

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Inexpensive way to gain access to professional management

42
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Information

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Plays a central role in the structure of financial markets and financial institutions

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Information Cost

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Make the financial markets the worst functioning of all market

44
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Market of Lemons

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Examines the qualilty of goods traded in a market can degrade in the presence of information asymmetry, leaving only the ‘lemons’ behind.

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Public Companies

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Those that issue stocks and bonds that are traded in financial markets- are required to disclose large amounts of information

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Collateral

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It is something of value pledged by a borrower to the lender in the event of the borrower’s default

47
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Net worth

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Under many circumstances, net worth serves the same purpose as collateral
- If a firm defaults on load, lenders can make claim against firm’s net worth

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Down payment

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The homeowner has a substantial stake in the house with a large down payment

49
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A principal-agent problem

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The seperation of your ownership from their control, which can be more than a little costly to stockholders