1. What do you expect to drive a company’s price-to-book equity and price-to-earnings multiples? Company’s net sales and profit margin: This is company’s ability to use its equity to generate abnormal earnings. This is driven by industry maturity and performance under the given economic condition. Mature and highly saturated industry will have a lower profit margin as the competition is getting intense and it is harder to earn profit. Company’s financial strategy: the effectiveness of the financial
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VALUATION TECHNIQUES Vault Guide to Finance Interviews Valuation Techniques How Much is it Worth? Imagine yourself as the CEO of a publicly traded company that makes widgets. You’ve had a highly successful business so far and want to sell the company to anyone interested in buying it. How do you know how much to sell it for? Likewise‚ consider the Bank of America acquisition of Fleet. How did B of A decide how much it should pay to buy Fleet? For starters‚ you should understand that the value
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Question 1 Susan Plumb is the supervisor of her firm’s research department. Her firm has been seeking the mandate to underwrite Wings Industries’ proposed secondary stock offering. Without mentioning that the firm is seeking the mandate‚ she asks Jack Dawson to analyze Wings common stock and prepare a research report. After reasonable effort‚ Dawson produces a favorable report on Wings stock. Plumb then adds a footnote describing the underwriting relationship with Wings and disseminates the report
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Solutions to Valuation Questions 1. Assume you expect a company’s net income to remain stable at $1‚100 for all future years‚ and you expect all earnings to be distributed to stockholders at the end of each year‚ so that common equity also remains stable for all future years (assumes clean surplus). Also‚ assume the company’s β = 1.5‚ the market risk premium is 4% and the 20-30 year yield on risk free treasury bonds is 5%. Finally‚ assume the company has 1‚000 shares of common stock outstanding.
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Equity Valuation: Discounted Cash Flow and Residual Income Models Introduction Valuation plays a very important role when companies are trying to increase their value‚ raise money‚ acquire another firm or sell a subsidiary‚ also when a company decides to go public. Managers‚ investors and shareholders need to have the most accurate and reliable information in order to make decisions‚ that is why valuation is a fundamental exercise in corporate finance. It is pretty evident that whatever
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Truly Lokot English Composition II Dr. Elizabeth S 12 2 2014 TV:Could you be with or without it? Television or TV has been considering people’s favorite technology that helps in a way of communication. Television brings quality of pictures and sounds in every home viewer around the world. Also‚ television might be seen almost everywhere like in the mall‚ hospital‚ school‚ and other places. Besides‚ the name television comes from Greek word tele meaning far‚ and the word videre‚ meaning to
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LECTURE 7 BOND VALUATION CLASS QUESTIONS Information for 1 & 2 Consider the following $1‚000 par value zero-coupon bonds: Bond Years to Maturity Price A 1 $909.09 B 2 $811.62 C 3 $711.78 D 4 $635.52 1). The yield to maturity on bond A is . a. 10% b. 11% c. 12% d. 14%
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technician? Answer: PC support technician PC service technician Bench service technician help-desk technician pc laptop repair technician 2. Of the four jobs in Question 1 which one might never include interacting with the PCs primary user? Answer Bench service technician The Bench Service Technician performs service work as needed on desktops‚ laptops and home computers that have been brought into the location by the customer. Responsibilities and Duties Diagnose desktop / laptop problems
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LECTURE 8 STOCK VALUATION CLASS QUESTION 8 1. Dividend yield example: If two companies both pay annual dividends of $1 per share‚ but ABC company’s stock is trading at $20 while XYZ company’s stock is trading at $40. In which company would an investor prefer to investment based on its dividend yield? 2. If the stock market is semi-strong efficient‚ which of the following statements is correct? a. All stocks should have the same expected returns; however‚ they may have different realized returns
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Valuation : * Price earnings ratio : DESCRIPTION | Mar-12 | Mar-11 | Mar-10 | Mar-09 | Mar-08 | Price-earnings ratio | 23.04 | 24.23 | 12.71 | 7.25 | 12.17 | This ratio reflects the following factors : growth prospects‚ risk characteristics ‚shareholder orientation ‚corporate image and the degree of liquidity.It indicates company performance and forecast future performance.Ratio is decreasing and it is good sign because investors will get high earnings.But risk will
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