Debt - Answers includes all borrowing incurred by a
firm, including bonds, and is repaid
according to a fixed schedule of payments.
Equity - Answers consists of funds provided by the
firm's owners (investors or stockholders)
that are repaid subject to the firm's performance.
Which has a voice in management debt or equity? - Answers Equity
Which type of capital has an interest deduction - Answers Debt
Does debt or equity have a maturity? - Answers Debt has a stated maturity
Which is senior in claims on assets& income? - Answers Debt
Who gets claims first stockholders or bondholders? - Answers Bondholders (creditors)
Which is riskier stocks or bonds? - Answers Stocks
equity's maturity date - Answers There is none, it's a permanent form of financing.
Interest payments to debt-holders are treated as... - Answers tax deductible expenses
Are dividend payments tax deductible? - Answers No
3 types of stock ownership - Answers Private
Closely owned (small group)
Publicly owned
Authorized shares - Answers shares of common stock that a firm's corporate charter allows it to issue
Outstanding shares - Answers issued shares of common stock
held by investors, this includes private and public
investors.
Treasury stock - Answers issued shares of common stock held
by the firm; often these shares have been repurchased by
the firm.
Issued shares - Answers shares of common stock that have
been put into circulation.
issued shares equation - Answers Issued shares = outstanding shares + treasury stock
initial financing for most firms.. - Answers typically comes from a firm's original founders in the form
of a common stock investment.
3 ways to 'go public' for a firm - Answers Public offering, rights offering, private placement
Public offering - Answers When a firm offers its shares for
sale to the general public.
Rights offering - Answers When a firm sells new shares to existing shareholders
Private placement - Answers the firm sells new securities directly to an investor or a group of
investors.
Find price of a stock by: - Answers discounting all future cashflows at an appropriate rate of return.
What are the future cash flows? - Answers Dividends
Appropriate rate of return - Answers Risk of those dividends
Covenants - Answers Conditions lenders place on firms that seek long-term debt financing. Written
into a bond.
Tax treatment - Answers interest paid to bond holders vs. dividends to stock holders
Tax credit - Answers An amount subtracted directly from the tax owed
Tax deductible - Answers able to be deducted from taxable income when calculating income tax due.
Lowers your tax burden.
What happens when a company buys its own shares - Answers Drives up price/demand for shares.
3 reasons people buy/sell stocks - Answers Income (dividends)
Diversify (portfolio)
Pure speculation (thinking it will be worth more)
The more risky the dividends - Answers The higher the rate of return
3 models for dividend growth rate - Answers 0 growth
constant growth
variable growth
zero growth model - Answers the dividends are going to be the same every year forever. Basically a
perpetuity.