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Chapter 4 --Value-driven Management -- Arbitrage u Explain how arbitrage works to ensure that the prices of financial claims are equal to the present value of the expected future cash flows. u You have two investments of equal risk below: u Investment A -- price $120 with a $10 return forever. u Investment B -- price $80 with a $10 return forever. u What should happen in the market? u Answer -- equal financial claims of equal risk sell for equal prices in the market.
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Arbitrage u Explain how arbitrage works to ensure that the prices of financial claims are equal to the present value of the expected future cash flows. u Two investments of equal risk below: u Investment A -- price $100 with a $12 return forever. u Investment B -- price $100 with a $8 return forever. u What should happen in the market? u Answer -- financial claims of equal risk sell for equal rates of return in the market.
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Price Terminology u What is the difference between bid prices, the highest bid price, asked prices, the lowest asked price and market price? u What role does the existence of different information sets play in determining the different prices above?
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Information Sets u Who probably has the better information set pertaining to the future cash flows of Microsoft? u Bill Gates -- the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of Microsoft u A typical stockholder of Microsoft u When we refer to the intrinsic value of Microsoft, to whose intrinsic value are we referring? u What happens when the intrinsic value is different than the market price of the stock?
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Information Sets – Financing Decisions & Capital Investment u When the information set of management does not match the information set of the stockholders, two situations may exist that have an impact on the financing decision. u Managers may be more optimistic than the market about the future cash flows of the company: u What influence does this have on the financing of new investment opportunities? u The market may be more optimistic than management about the future cash flows of the company: u What influence does this have on the financing of new investment opportunities?
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Bonds u Bonds are one claim on the value of a firm u Know how to find the present value of a bond u Know how to use the IRR function on the calculator to find the market return or yield to maturity u Know how to use the IRR function on the calculator to find the yield to call
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Bond Terminology u Bond yield terminology u Yield to maturity u Yield to call u Current yield u Coupon rate
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Preferred Stock u Preferred stock is another claim on the value of a firm u The value of preferred stock can be found using the perpetual no-growth model in chapter 3 u Value today = Expected dividend / required rate of return for preferred shareholders u Market typically tells you the price and the dividend in know – work backwards to get the required return
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Common Stock u Common stock is another claim on the value of a firm: u A short-cut method to value common stock is to use the constant dividend growth model u Value today = Expected dividend /(required return for common shareholders - growth) u Weaknesses of the model: u constant growth u companies that do not pay dividends
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Asset View: Variables That Drive Stock Value u Looking at value from the asset side instead of the financing side, the firm value is driven by: u Existing projects -- dividends or cash flows from existing projects u NPV of new investment opportunities expected to be taken in the future -- with perfect information u Competitive advantage --> Economic Profit --> taken to present leads to net present value --> which measures the increase in value of the stock (with perfect information)
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Other Events u Factors that do not influence value -- smoke and mirrors u Stock splits u Stock dividends u Factors that influence value u Earnings u Investment announcements
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