Financial Management D Flashcards
Stock Repurchase (4 methods)
- Buy Shares on the Market (.. announces the plans to buy)
- Tender Offer to Shareholders (.. stated number of stocks and fixed price!)
- Dutch Auction (.. states a series of prices at which the C is prepared to repurchase)
- Private Negotiation (greenmail) (..direct negotiation with a shareholder)
Types of Dividends
- Cash dividend
- Regular Cash Dividend (.. paid quarterly, semi-annualy or yearly)
- Special Cash Dividend (.. one-off extra!)
- Stock Dividend (.. dividend paid in stocks, basically equal to a stock split)
Information Content of Dividends
- Dividend stock repurchase decisions contain information
- Information contained in decisions vary
- Assymetric information may be conveyed
- Dividend increases could mean overpriced stock or increase future profits
- Signal varies based on prior information about company
Accounts Payable
- Goods received but not yet paid for
- Very short-term debt
Unfunded Obligations
- Senior debt, e.g employee pensions
Special-Purpose Entities (SPEs)
- Raise cash through equity and debt
- Do not show up on the balance sheet
Mutual Fund
- A company that pools money from many investors and invests the money in securities such as stocks, bonds and short-term debt.
- Raises money by selling shares to investors
- Attempts to beat market
Money Market Fund
Invests in short-term safe securitites
Closed-End Fund
- Fixed number of shares
- Most closed-end funds are actively managed and seek to “beat the market”
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Portfolio bought or sold in single trade
Hedge Fund
- A limited partnership of private investors whose money is managed by professional fund managers who use a wide range of strategies
- Restricted access
- Limited partnership
- Performance-related fees
Commercial banks
Provide loans, safe money storage
Investment banks
- Assist companies in raising financing
- Advise on takeovers, mergers and acquisitions
Acquisitions
An acquisition is a business transaction that occurs when one company purchases and gains control over another company
Insurance companies
Invest in corporate stocks and bonds
Conglomerates
- A corporation made up of several different, independent businesses
- In a conglomerate, one company owns a controlling stake in several smaller companies, conducting business separately and independently.
- Conglomerates often diversify business risk by participating in many different markets.
Crowdfunding
Raise funding via the net
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- First offering of stocks to public
- To get a wider source of capital a firm can make its first public issue of common stock.
- Register the offering with SEC (securities and exchange commission), underwriters buy and resell to the public.
- Generally sold underpriced
Underwriter
Firm that buys and resells and issue of securities
Spread
Difference between public-offer price and price paid by underwriter
What are advantages / disadvantages of going public?
When a company goes public, the company initially gets all of the money raised through the IPO. When the shares trade on a stock exchange after the IPO, the company does not get any of that money. That is money that is exchanged between investors through the buying and selling of shares on the exchange. At the end of the day, the best decision is that which is best for the founders and their vision of the company.
Advantages:
- Financial benefit in the form of raising capital, can be used to fund R&D, fund capital expenditure, or pay off existing debt.
- Increased public awareness, may lead to an increase in market share for the company
- May be used by founding individuals as an exit strategy, many venture capitalists have used IPOs to cash in on successful companies that they helped
start up.
- Going public allows a company to raise significant capital and grow the business.
Disadvantages:
- Need for added disclosure for investors
- Regulation in regard to periodic financial reporting, which may be difficult for newer public companies,
Monitored by SEC, the cost of complying with regulatory requirements can be very high.
- Additional costs include the generation of financial reporting documents, audit fees, investor relation departments, and accounting oversight committees.
- The founders having to give up total control
- Remaining private allows the founders to run the company as they wish and not have to meet the
many regulatory requirements of being a public company.
Public companies also are faced with the added pressure of the market which may cause them to focus more on short-term results rather than long-term growth. The actions of the company’s management also become increasingly scrutinized as investors constantly look for rising profits. This may lead management to use somewhat questionable practices in order to boost earnings. Privately held companies have more autonomy than public ones.
Before deciding whether or not to go public, companies must evaluate all of the potential advantages and disadvantages that will arise. This usually happens during the underwriting process as the company works with an investment bank to weigh the pros and cons of a public offering and determine if it is in the best interest of the company for that time period.
Motives for going public
- To create public shares for use in future acquisitions
- To establish a market price/value for our firm
Levered firm
A company that has debt in its capital structure is a levered firm.
Unlevered firm
A company that has no debt is called an unlevered firm.
Three measures of cost of capital
- The opportunity cost of capital
The opportunity cost of capital is the cost of capital for a company or a project if it is all-equity financed - The company cost of capital (ra)
Is the weighted average of the costs of equity and debt. MM tells us that in perfect markets the company cost of capital is identical to the opportunity cost for investing in the company. - The weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
Is the weighted average of the cost of equity and the after-tax cost of debt.
Tax-Deductable Interest
The tax deductability of interest increases the total income that can be paid out to bondholders and stockholders
Cost of Financial Distress
Costs arising from bankruptcy or distorted business decisions before bankruptcy
Trade-Off Theory
Theory that capital structure is based on trade-off between tax savings and distress costs of debt
Pecking-order Theory
Theory stating firms prefer to issue of debt over equity if internal finances are insufficient
Value at risk (VAR)
Convertible Bond vs Straight Bond
- A convertible bond gives the owner the option to exchange the bond for a predetermined number of shares. The convertible bondholder hope that the issuing company’s share price will zoom up so that the bond can be converted at a big profit. But if it zooms down, there is no obligation to convert, and the bondholder remains a bondholder.
- On the contrary, a straight bond is a bond that obliges the issuer to regular, fixed interest as well as principal repayment upon maturity.
Special Purpose Entity (SPE) / Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV)
Is a subsidiary created by a parent company to isolate financial risk. Its legal status as a separate company makes its obligations secure even if the parent company goes bankrupt. For this reason, a special purpose vehicle is sometimes called a bankruptcy-remote entity. If accounting loopholes are exploited, these vehicles can become a financially devastating way to hide company debt.
- An SPV is created as a separate company, with its own balance sheet by a corporation in order to isolate financial risk. It may be used to undertake a risky venture while reducing any negative financial impact upon the parent company.
- Alternatively, it may be holding company for the securitization of debt
- Also used by venture capitalists to consolidate a pool of capital to invest in a start-up
- Have been used in the past by companies to hide financial losses.
Open-end funds vs Closed-end funds
- Open-end fund: A mutual fund that can issue unlimited new shares, priced daily on their net asset value.
-Closed end fund: Has a fixed number of shares that are traded on an exchange.
Pensions funds
- Is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income
Internal diversification
Occurs when a firm enter a different, but usually related, line of business by developing the new line of business itself. Internal diversification frequently involves expanding a firm’s product or markets base and thus might be the practical way to grow.
The FinTech Revolution
- Payment solutions, cash and checks are replaced by electronic payments
- Person-to-person ledning. P2P lending platforms, bypass the banking system by connecting lenders and borrowers directly through the web
- Crowdfunding, raise money directly for start-up businesses from a group of individuals
- AI/ML Credit Scoring
- Distributed Ledgers and Blockchains, blockchain.
- Cryptocurrencies. Digital currency in which transactions are verified and record maintained in a distributed ledger outside the reach of governments.
- Initial Coin Offerings. Companies developing new blockchain product and services can instead raise cash by selling tokens in an initial coin offering, ICO.