Lecture sevenn Flashcards
what is known as a “over-the-counter” trade?
Direct trading between buyer and seller (without an exchange)
how do most stock trades happen
via an exchange
what does EMH stand for?
Efficient Market Hypothesis
what does Efficient Market Hypothesis explain
how securities are priced based on availabe informarion
what are the three types of efficeny in efficent market hypothesis
weak form, semi strong, and strong form efficency
what does Weak Form Efficiency mean
Prices reflect past price movements only.
what does Semi-strong Form Efficiency mean
Prices reflect all publicly available information.
what does strong Form Efficiency mean
Prices reflect all public and private information.
where are inefficent markets possible during the EMH
where prices do not reflect a company’s future prospects.
componets of stock returns
capital growth, dividends, rate of returns
capital growth for stock returns
increase in the stock price.
dividends for stock returens
company earnings distributed back to
shareholders.
rate of return formula
income + capita gain / inital price
rate of return also known as
“total investor return” or “total shareholder
return”.
are returns guarnteed when invest into stocks
no
when u refer to income on the rate of return what doesit mean
the dividend
capital gain referred to on the rate of return equation
p1-p0,
(the new price - current price)
stocks: Dividend per share (DPS) =
DPS=
Total ordinary dividend/ number of ordinary shares
what does the DPS formula tell us
this ratio tells you how much dividend is paid for each share owned.
stocks: Dividend Yield (%): formula
DPS/ stock price at the START of the period
stock: dividend yield(%) tells us
t shows the return on investment from dividends alone.
stock: earnings per share (EPS) formula
EPS: Annual earnings/ number of shares
stock: earnings per share (EPS) tells us
indicates the portion of a company’s profit allocated to each share.
stock: price-earnings (P/E) ratio formula
P/E Ratio = Stock price per share/ EPS