What is Stock Exchange? A stock exchange is the market place for the purchase and sale of second hand securities. It provides "trading" facilities for stock brokers and traders‚ to trade shares of the listed companies and other financial instruments such as Term Finance Certificates and Derivatives. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for the issue (listing)‚ redemption (delisting) of securities and other capital events including the payment of income and dividends. It is a key institution for
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How to Value Bonds 1. What is the present value of a 10-year‚ pure discount bond paying $1‚000 at maturity if the appropriate interest rate is: a. 5 percent? b. 10 percent? c. 15 percent? 2. Microhard has issued a bond with the following characteristics: Principal: $1‚000 Time to maturity: 20 years Coupon rate: 8 percent‚ compounded semiannually Semiannual payments Calculate the price of this bond if the stated annual
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Important Events Affecting Apple‚ Inc. Stock There have been numerous events that affected Apple Stock. The events will be detailed below‚ and how much a particular event affected Apple‚ Inc. stock. Events that affected Apple stock could range from unveiling of a new and a promising innovative product or disappointing earnings. The following briefs important events affecting Apple stock over 1 year. - April 19‚ 2006: Apple Computer‚ Inc. announced that it expected its third quarter revenues to
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Preferred Stock Benita Becton XACC/291 08/23/13 Lisa Pendleton Preferred Stock Preferred stock is capital stock that has some contractual preferences over common stock. These particular stocks give stockholders a priority in distributions of earnings and assets in the event of liquidation. Dividend preferences are one of those features that make preferred stock attractive to investors. If the dividend rate on preferred stock is 5.00 per share‚ then common stockholders don’t receive their
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Ameritrade: Cost of Capital What factors should Ameritrade Management consider when evaluating the proposed advertising program and technology upgrades? Why? When considering the proposed advertising program and technology upgrades‚ we have to ensure that the project will likely add value to the company‚ so we need to consider the return on investment versus the cost of capital. If the return on investment‚ measured by the net present value and internal rate of return‚ exceeds the cost of capital
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Executive summary The main objective of this thesis is to determine the value of Inditex´s share by conducting own valuation. Over the recent years‚ Inditex has demonstrated remarkable growth and continuously been expanding its operations year after year. Furthermore‚ Inditex has had a continuous increase in share value since being publicly listed in the Madrid stock exchange in 2001‚ until mid of 2007. However‚ from 2007 until today‚ the share price has plunged from 51 EUR to 25 EUR. Experts seem
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identify the prominent players and help people make investment decisions i.e. BuyHold-Sell. In order to achieve this objective a detailed financial statement analyses of the prominent players has been done. Also‚ in order to find the undervalued pharma stocks Discounted Cash Flow Analyses (DCF) has been done of the 10 companies CHAPTER 1: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS The economy of India is the eleventh largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the fourth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). Following
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Case Study Questions –Paramount Communications Inc. 1993- Why a paramount is a takeover target? Several Strategic Reasons - Cost reduction: through combinations of similar business and economy of scales - Sales increase: a) cross-promotions of each company’s brand and utilization of each company’s channels‚ and b) cooperation in international businesses. 2. Which of the two firms (Viacom or QVC) would make a better fit with Paramount? -Viacom: Overlap in the business creates
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solar energy‚ such as‚ solar thermal energy in order to establish a sustainable‚ clean‚ responsible and efficient form for energy for generations to come. While solar energy startup and even maintenance costs can be just as expensive as oil and coal production‚ solar energy is undoubtedly worth the price in the long run‚ even solely for the benefit of CO2 reduction. As far as using solar thermal energy locally‚ my hometown of Bloomington‚ Indiana currently uses solar thermal energy for various residential
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must pay. Usually the term interest rate is applied to debt instruments such as bank loans or bonds‚ and the term required return is applied to equity investments‚ such as common stock‚ that give the investor an ownership stake in the issuer. In fact‚ the meaning of these two terms is quite similar because‚ in both cases‚ the supplier is compensated for providing funds to the demander. A variety of factors can influence the equilibrium interest rate. One factor is inflation‚ a rising trend in
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