v. Stockholders will be the last one to get paid because the company should pay first their creditors, suppliers and employees.
4. The Difference Between Bonds and Stocks in Investment
Since each offer of stock represents to a possession stake in a company, individuals that invests into the stock can earn profit when the company performance being well and its value rises or increases overtime. In the meantime, an individual that invests in the company runs the hazard that could perform ineffectively and the stock could go deflate or in the bad scenario, …show more content…
There is a greater risk that, if the company flops, the greater part of the investors' speculation will be lost. On the other side, however, there is an arrival to investors that could potentially dwarf what they could earn investing into bonds. Stock investors will judge the sum they will pay for an offer of stock in light of the perceived risk and the expected return potential, a return potential that is driven by earning growth. Being predominantly as a group, they will adjust their investments in a way that appropriately remunerates them for the overabundance chance they are taking. The greater of volatility are influences by many factors such as:
i. Inflation and The Time Value of Money
The first factor is expected inflation. The lower or higher the inflation expectation, the lower or higher the return or yield bond buyers will demand. This happen because of the concept of time value of money. The time value of money is the differences in value between money received today and money received in the future also the observation that two cash flows at different points in time have different …show more content…
Bonds with more prominent convexity show less unpredictability when there is an adjustment in interest rates. Bonds will always be less volatile on average than stocks because more is known and certain about their income flow. Besides, the stocks should generate greater returns than bonds because there are more unknowns, so it will imply greater potential risk. If stocks do not return more, then investors have become truly irrational and taken needless risk with their decision making. So, it will make the investors gain the losses and not trusted anymore on that company stock