Corporation (ICC) has been outstanding‚ there are some problems in respect of the share price appreciation. Firstly‚ P/E ratio will be used to evaluate the company’s stock and factors which affect company’s P/E ratio will be listed. Furthermore‚ discounted dividend valuation model will be demonstrated and fundamental factors which impact the share pricing will be analysed. Finally‚ the value of ICC at 30 June 2010 will be calculated using P/E ratio and DDM model. Meantime‚ the weakness of those two
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Q1. Please compare the advantages and disadvantages of the following investment rules: Net Present Value (NPV)‚ Payback Period‚ Discounted Payback Period‚ Average Accounting Return‚ Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Profitability Index (PI). (You can start by considering the following questions for each investment rule: Does it use cash flows or accounting earnings? Does it consider all cash flows or not? Does it apply a proper discount rate? Whether the acceptance criteria are clear and reasonable
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What is Valuation? Valuation: Methods of quantifying how much money something should be exchanged for today‚ considering future benefits. We will teach 4 valuation methods Trading Comparables Transaction Comparables Sum-of-the-Parts Valuation Discounted Cash Flow Analysis (DCF) $ 2 Why is Valuation important? Acquisitions: How much should we pay for the company? Divestitures: How much should we sell our company for? Sell-side Research: Should our clients buy‚ sell or hold a given stock (fixed
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Equity Valuation Lecture Map Definitions of Value Book value‚ Liquidation value‚ Intrinsic value‚ Market value Dividend discount models Constant-growth Multi-stage growth Value Metrics and Determinants of Value Current earnings and growth P/E Lesmond 1 Book Value of Equity The firm’s equity value‚ or stock value‚ is stated right on the firm’s books This is NOT the market value of equity Book value per share of Equity is the value of common equity on the books‚ divided
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There are discounted and non-discounted cash-flow capital budgeting criteria to evaluate proposed investments. They are 1) Net present value: NPV is a discounted cash flow technique‚ which is the difference between an investment’s market value and its cost. NPV = Present value of cash inflow- Present value of cash outflow The investment should be accepted if the net present value is positive and rejected if it is negative. 2) Profitability index: PI is a discounted cash flow technique
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* SEC requires public disclosure of financial information (transparency) * IPO expenses | * Liquidity of stock increases | * Owner restricted to immediate cash-out | * Easier to raise capital in the future | * Sharing of future earnings with outsiders | | * Legal liability | Exhibit A in the appendix outlines some additional key advantages and disadvantages of going public through the IPO process. IPO Valuation Techniques Deriving a value for an IPO is the critical part
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Google Inc is a technology company that builds and provides products and services that organise information and make it universally accessible and useful to the general public‚ and it has arguably become a need in the everyday lives of people. As something that initially started as a research project for Stanford digital library‚ the concept began in march 1996 by Larry page and Serge Brin. the goal was to develop the enabling technologies from a single‚ integrated and universal digital library
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Report on Capital Budgeting Abstract This report deals with • The nature of capital investment appraisal • The techniques available for evaluating capital investments • The limitations of these techniques • The capital budgeting practices in select countries Introduction: Some of the major responsibilities of top management are in the area of long range planning. Allocating resources to competing uses is one of the most important decisions a manager has to make. Executives are constantly
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Events and Underreaction to Earnings News DAVID HIRSHLEIFER‚ SONYA SEONGYEON LIM‚ and SIEW HONG TEOH∗ ABSTRACT Recent studies propose that limited investor attention causes market underreactions. This paper directly tests this explanation by measuring the information load faced by investors. The investor distraction hypothesis holds that extraneous news inhibits market reactions to relevant news. We find that the immediate price and volume reaction to a firm’s earnings surprise is much weaker‚ and
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company’s business‚ not its stock” (Carbonara‚ 1999). How is it estimated? Buffett readily admits that intrinsic value is highly subjective (Bruner et al.‚ 2009). Buffett’s method is to estimate ‘discounted cash flows’ (Carbonara‚ 1999). This is similar to the NVP‚ of a business cash flow‚ discounted to today’s value to obtain an estimated intrinsic value. Though it is an estimate‚ this does not bother Buffett as he stated that “it is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong” (Bruner
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