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  Inflation But Trouble Lies Ahead As Fed Has Overtightened Robert BaroneContributor Oct 1,
  2022,11:16pm EDT (discussion
  board assignment #2, suggested reading #2, FYI)  Long-term (30 year) Treasuries closed at
  3.78%, much lower than the 2-Yr. This is called an inverted yield curve and
  only happens when the Federal Reserve is over-tightening. The inverted yield
  curve is a very reliable indicator of an oncoming Recession. As we’ve said in past blogs,
  the Fed appears to be fighting yesterday’s war. The July and August CPI,
  taken together, were 0%. That said, On Friday morning (September 30), the
  Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation, the PCE (Personal Consumption
  Expenditures) Index came in at a mild +0.3%. Core PCE inflation (ex-food
  & energy) rose 4.9% Y/Y. The trouble in the report was the M/M core rate
  rose 0.6%. Now, this is a mixed message. The Y/Y isn’t bad, but the monthly
  is. So, is the Fed now going to switch its view from looking at Y/Y numbers
  to looking at monthly ones (i.e., always choosing the worst view)? We don’t
  know the answer to that – but our gut feel is that they have already
  overtightened policy. We see very little written
  about the growing debt problem, but debt is a growth killer. With aging
  demographics and labor shortages, growth is already a problem. Debt has risen
  on household, corporate, and government balance sheets. The savings rate in
  the U.S. (chart) is down to the 5.0% area, a post-pandemic low, and most of
  such savings comes from the higher income earners. Lower income families have
  either cut back or have borrowed heavily on their credit cards in order to keep
  their living standards. Corporate cash flows are
  dwindling relative to their liabilities (chart), leaving them little choice
  but to borrow to expand, postpone any expansion, or, for most, look for ways
  to cut costs. The latter means lowering labor costs either through shorter
  hours (the workweek has been contracting), a slower increase in pay/benefits,
  or directly through layoffs (which we expect to see as the Recession
  unfolds). The worst trend we see is at
  the Federal level. Debt there exploded during the 2.5 years since the
  pandemic – by $7 trillion. The national debt is now $24 trillion; it was $17
  trillion in February 2020; that’s a 41% increase in a very short period of
  time. The gross cost of the debt in August was $88 billion. Because the Fed and
  other agencies own a significant portion of the debt and return the interest
  to the Treasury, the net interest expense was $63 billion in August, or $756
  billion on an annualized basis. Let’s not forget that the Fed is reducing its
  balance sheet at a rate of $95 billion/month, of which more than $60 billion
  is from its Treasury holdings. As a result, the net cost to the Treasury will
  be rising, even if the federal government runs a balanced budget (fat
  chance!). As the Recession unfolds, tax revenue is going to fall. Capital
  gains taxes have averaged about 12% of individual tax revenues; these will
  dry up in the 2023 tax collection cycle given the losses sustained in both
  the equity and fixed-income markets this year. Hence, the federal deficit is
  likely to be quite large in 2023 (and 2024 due to the Recession). Some economists believe that as
  long as the economy grows as fast or faster than the debt, the burden of the
  debt as a percentage of GDP doesn’t grow, so the debt doesn’t become an
  increasing burden as a percentage of GDP. This, we think, is true to some
  extent. But the level of interest rates plays a big role here, and, rates
  today/ are quite high when viewed against the potential growth rate of an
  economy with demographic issues (the percentage of older citizens and a low
  birth rate). Even the most optimistic pundits don’t think the potential
  growth rate of the economy is greater than 2%. Our view is that it is likely
  closer to 1%. In the short-run, that is moot, as 2022 and 2023 will likely
  show negative growth. The current net annual interest
  rate on the debt is more than 3% and rising as the Fed has pushed today’s
  rates to the 4% area. Over the next couple of years deficits will rise as the
  Recession and comatose markets reduce the tax take. In addition, the large
  monthly reduction of Treasuries in the Fed’s balance sheet means the net cost
  to the Treasury will be rising; it could be over $1 trillion soon (in a $6
  trillion budget). That would be more than the annual cost of Social Security. Debt is a growth killer,
  especially as interest rates rise, because it takes more and more of current
  income to service that debt. That leaves less for households to consume and
  for businesses to invest. Rapidly rising household, corporate, and especially
  government debt hasn’t been written about or discussed much, perhaps because
  interest rates were so low for so long. Debt, however, is going to be a big
  issue in the foreseeable future. In our last blog, we discussed
  some anomalies we saw in the Payroll Employment data. To reiterate, on a
  not-seasonally adjusted basis (NSA), YTD through August, payrolls have risen
  +2.2 million, but, seasonally adjusted (SA), that number is +3.5 million. The
  difference is 1.3 million. Theoretically, over the year, the SA process is
  supposed to net to zero with the NSA data. Seasonal factors adjust for
  influences within the year itself – like retail sales around the holidays.
  So, one of two things should happen 1) the seasonal factors will be negative
  to the tune of 1.2 million payrolls in the September to December period
  (that’s 300,000/month!) – this is highly unlikely even though it would appear
  logical, or 2) the past data will get adjusted downward. For the Payroll data
  in particular, the BLS changes the seasonal factors on a monthly basis (the
  so-called “Concurrent Seasonal Adjustment Method”). They actually make
  revisions to the data all the way back to January every single month, but
  they only tell the public the revision for last month. There is a footnote in
  their monthly release that says they don’t want to “confuse” the public! In
  January of every year, they make all the revised data public for the entire
  preceding year, but, by that time, nobody cares to even look! As we said in our last blog, we
  are going to see the unemployment rate rise, likely much higher than the
  Fed’s current 4.4% estimate. Until their September meeting, the Fed had a
  3-handle on its unemployment forecast! So, this is their way of telling us
  there won’t be a “soft-landing.” All the Regional Fed Manufacturing
  Surveys (monthly) are telling the same story about supply chains. The graphs
  below are from the Richmond Fed as this is the most recent of the regional
  surveys. Note the rapid falloff in the charts for order backlogs and vendor
  lead times. This indicates that supply chains are back to normal. New orders,
  employment and prices paid and received have also weakened significantly in
  each Regional Fed Survey. As noted by Chairman Powell at
  the after-meeting press conference, inflation expectations have remained
  well-anchored. This is key because expectations play a pivotal role in the
  inflation process. One of our colleagues, Bob Khoury of Morgan Stanley, who
  helps us in our fixed-income practice, emailed us the following note on
  Friday (September 30): The Shrinking Money Supply The famous economist, Milton
  Friedman, taught the economics world the importance of money. If there is too
  much, we get inflation. If there isn’t enough for companies to borrow to
  expand, the economy slows. This Fed has embarked on a policy of selling off
  its portfolio of Treasury and Mortgage Backed Securities, which it built up
  over the past decade. This is called Quantitative Tightening or simply QT,
  and it shrinks the money supply. Friedman taught us that economic growth +
  inflation is, in the long run, equal to the growth of the money supply. So,
  if the economy can potentially grow at 2%, and the Fed wants 2% inflation,
  then the money supply should grow at 4%. During the Covid episode, the money
  supply grew at a significant double-digit rate; thus, the high rate of
  current inflation. Now, on top of rising interest rates, the money supply is
  shrinking (and M/M inflation is 0%) and it is going to shrink faster going
  forward as the Fed has told us it will sell larger quantities of securities
  from its portfolio in the months ahead. Besides the restrictive interest
  rates, which markets and pundits are fixated on, we also have a shrinking
  money supply. Every indicator is pointing to Recession. Final Thoughts As is apparent from the
  incoming data, the economy has entered a Recession; it is still mild, but a
  Recession nonetheless. The Fed, clearly ignoring the incoming data and
  concentrating on backward looking indicators (i.e., the Y/Y rate of inflation
  and the unemployment rate), has become more hawkish and has now told the
  market that it intends to raise rates another 125 basis points before year’s
  end and even more in 2023. The Summary of Economic Projections (the dot-plot)
  from which the markets glean the Fed’s intentions, has historically had a 37%
  correlation with what actually transpires as far as rates are concerned, and
  it is clear that the FOMC members are nowhere near consensus for 2024 and
  2025 rate levels. July’s M/M CPI was -0.1% and August’s was +0.1%. Over those
  two months, the headline CPI was flat (i.e., 0%). Seems like the Fed should
  recognize this, especially since monetary policy impacts the economy with
  long and variable lags. Yet this Fed is still moving forward with
  increasingly restrictive policy, seemingly impervious to the lagged impacts
  of its prior rate hikes. We are already seeing the impacts of rising rates in
  the housing market, and we have had two quarters in a row of negative GDP and
  nearly daily evidence that the economy is weakening/contracting. Ultra-high
  rates here are also causing chaos in the foreign exchange markets. Powell has referenced Paul
  Volcker several times, both in public statements, and in his remarks to
  Congress, holding Volcker out as a hero to be emulated. Volcker, of course,
  did slay the inflation dragon, but the cost was two significant recessions in
  the 1980s. Of greater import, Volcker knew that monetary policy acts with
  long lags because he moved the Fed Funds rate down when the Y/Y inflation
  metric was still over 11%! The continuance of ever more restrictive monetary
  policy (including Quantitative Tightening (QT)), which has already pushed the
  economy into the initial throes of Recession, will only make that Recession
  deeper and longer. Factors that lead inflation
  strongly suggest that the Y/Y trend in the CPI will be sliced below +2% next
  year. The table shows what the backward-looking Y/Y rate would be, by month,
  going forward, if the M/M rate of inflation remains at 0% as it has in July
  and August. By the time the Fed pivots, as it awaits its 2% Y/Y goal, the
  economy will be in deep Recession. Over the summer, the U.S. and
  Europe experienced heat waves that ignited raging fires and caused undue
  human suffering. In the U.S., in places like Texas, the extreme weather
  forced power grid operators to implement rarely used emergency measures to
  avoid rolling blackouts amid surging electricity demand. Wholesale
  electricity prices skyrocketed to $5,000 per megawatt-hour as consumers
  cranked up their AC to stay cool. ECB Officials
  Lay Foundation for Significant October Rate Hike (discussion
  board assignment #3, suggested reading #2, FYI)  By Carolynn Look,September 30, 2022 at 7:13
  AM EDT  European Central Bank officials are already staking
  out their positions before next month’s decision on interest rates, laying
  the ground for another forceful hike as the euro-zone grapples with inflation
  that’s just hit double digits. The vast majority of the ECB’s
  25-member Governing Council delivered public remarks this week, with several
  rallying around a second straight move of 75 basis points. Some policymakers remain wary
  of rushing to lift borrowing costs as the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s
  invasion of Ukraine brings a recession in the 19-member currency bloc ever
  nearer. Consumer-price data Friday, however, hammered home the need for
  action, revealing a record surge of 10% from a year ago in September. ECB policy makers that have
  suggested a number for next month’s decision have all mentioned a
  three-quarter-point rate hike President Christine Lagarde
  kicked off the week by reiterating before European Union lawmakers that
  borrowing costs will be lifted at the ECB’s next “several meetings” -- even
  with economic activity expected to “slow substantially.” While she didn’t elaborate
  further on the monetary-policy trajectory, some of her colleagues were less
  reserved. Even before Eurostat revealed
  the latest inflation record, Latvia’s Martins Kazaks and Lithuania’s
  Gediminas Simkus both told Bloomberg they’re leaning toward another
  three-quarter-point hike, joining their colleagues from Austria, Slovenia and
  Slovakia. Estonia’s Madis Muller wants
  “something in the same ballpark” as the ECB’s two steps to date -- 50 and 75
  basis points -- a sentiment that’s shared by Finland’s Olli Rehn. Others
  refrained from numerical preferences but contributed to the debate with calls
  for “decisive action” -- including Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel.  There was some pushback: Chief
  Economist Philip Lane thinks it’s much too early to decide on the magnitude
  of the next rate increase, going as far as to say that speculating on it is
  “not particularly helpful.” Portugal’s Mario Centeno cautioned against rapid
  moves that may need undoing later on. Investors noted the overall
  tone, however, pricing in a 75 basis-point increase on Oct. 27. Beyond that, uncertainty
  persists. Most officials said they’re prepared to push borrowing costs beyond
  the neutral rate that neither stimulates nor restricts economic activity, if
  inflation warrants such a move. While the majority declined to
  take a stab at where the monetary-tightening cycle will peak, one did --
  Pablo Hernandez de Cos. The Bank of Spain, which he heads, estimates that a
  so-called terminal rate of 2.25% to 2.5% would bring inflation down to the
  ECB’s 2% target by the end of 2024. De Cos warned, though, that
  raising rates “immediately” to the terminal level isn’t advisable. Before it comes to October’s
  decision, there’ll be a debate next week on how to shrink the ECB’s balance
  sheet when policymakers gather for a catch-up in Cyprus. Lagarde on Monday
  sounded wary on starting the process too quickly, though others are more keen
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  URL for
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  started. 4.     If you are an existing MarketWatch member, login. If you are a new user,
  follow the link for a Free account - it's
  easy! 5.     Follow the instructions and start trading! How To Win The MarketWatch Stock
  Trading Simulation Game (video, FYI)MarketWatch Stock Game: Short
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| Week1,2 | 
   Chapter 5 Time value of money 1 Week 1 in class exercise (word file)   Solution The time value of money -
  German Nande (youtube)Concept of FV, PV,
  Rate, Nper Calculation of FV, PV,
  Rate, Nper Concept of interest
  rate, compounding rate, discount rate   
     Chapter 6 Time Value of Money 2   Concept of PMT, NPV Calculation of FV, PV,
  Rate, Nper, PMT, NPV, NFV Concept of EAR, APR Calculation of EAR,
  APR   First Discussion Board  Assignment (post your writing on blackboard
  under discussion folder): (due by  10/30/2022  at 11:59 pm) Market Watch GameLet's start trading in the stock
  market! Please join a game and report back on your experience. Directions 
 
 
 Instructions 
   HOMEWORK of Chapters 5
  and 6 (due on week 4, 10/30/2022)     1. The Thailand Co.
  is considering the purchase of some new equipment. The quote consists of a
  quarterly payment of $4,740 for 10 years at 6.5 percent interest. What is the
  purchase price of the equipment? ($138,617.88)   2. The
  condominium at the beach that you want to buy costs $249,500. You plan to
  make a cash down payment of 20 percent and finance the balance over 10 years
  at 6.75 percent. What will be the amount of your monthly mortgage
  payment? ($2,291.89)   4. Shannon wants
  to have $10,000 in an investment account three years from now. The account
  will pay 0.4 percent interest per month. If Shannon saves money every month,
  starting one month from now, how much will she have to save each month?
  ($258.81) 
 (Hint: Bridget’s is an annuity due, so abs(fv(8%/12, 10*12, 150, 0,
  1)) --- type =1; Jordan’s is an ordinary annuity, so abs(fv(8%/12, 10*12,
  150, 0) --- type =0, or omitted. There is a mistake in the help video for
  this question. Sorry for the mistake.) 14. What is the
  future value of weekly payments of $25 for six years at 10 percent? ($10,673.90) 15. At the end of
  this month, Bryan will start saving $80 a month for retirement through his
  company's retirement plan. His employer will contribute an additional $.25
  for every $1.00 that Bryan saves. If he is employed by this firm for 25 more
  years and earns an average of 11 percent on his retirement savings, how much
  will Bryan have in his retirement account 25 years from
  now? ($157,613.33)   16. Sky
  Investments offers an annuity due with semi-annual payments for 10 years at 7
  percent interest. The annuity costs $90,000 today. What is the amount of each
  annuity payment? ($6,118.35) 17. Mr. Jones
  just won a lottery prize that will pay him $5,000 a year for thirty years. He
  will receive the first payment today. If Mr. Jones can earn 5.5 percent on
  his money, what are his winnings worth to him
  today? ($76,665.51)   18. You want to
  save $75 a month for the next 15 years and hope to earn an average rate of
  return of 14 percent. How much more will you have at the end of the 15 years
  if you invest your money at the beginning of each month rather than the end
  of each month? ($530.06)   19. What is the
  effective annual rate of 10.5 percent compounded
  semi-annually? (10.78%)    22. What is the
  effective annual rate of 12.75 percent compounded daily? (13.60 percent)   23. Your
  grandparents loaned you money at 0.5 percent interest per month. The APR on
  this loan is _____ percent and the EAR is _____ percent. (6.00; 6.17) FYI only: help for homework  Part 1(Qs
  1-2)         Part 2(Qs
  4-8)          Part 3(Qs 9-12) Part 4(Qs
  13-16)     Part 5(Qs
  17-20)      Part 6(Qs 21-24) (Q13: Bridget’s is an annuity
  due, so abs(fv(8%/12, 10*12, 150, 0, 1)) --- type =1; Jordan’s is an ordinary
  annuity, so abs(fv(8%/12, 10*12, 150, 0) --- type =0, or omitted. There is a
  mistake in the help video for this question. Sorry for the mistake.) Quiz 1- Help Videos  (Quiz
  1 Due by the end of week 2 Sunday on 10/16/2022) | Calculators  Time
  Value of Money Calculator  © 2002 - 2019 by Mark A. Lane,
  Ph.D. Math Formula FV = PV *(1+r)^n PV = FV /
  ((1+r)^n) N
  = ln(FV/PV) / ln(1+r) Rate = (FV/PV)1/n -1 Annuity: N
  = ln(FV/C*r+1)/(ln(1+r)) Or N
  = ln(1/(1-(PV/C)*r)))/ (ln(1+r))   
     EAR = (1+APR/m)^m-1 APR = (1+EAR)^(1/m)*m       Excel Formulas  To get FV, use FV
  function.      =abs(fv(rate, nper,
  pmt, pv))   To get PV, use PV
  function           = abs(pv(rate, nper,
  pmt, fv))   To get r, use rate
  function              =
  rate(nper,  pmt, pv, -fv)   To get number of years,
  use nper function                                  = nper(rate,  pmt, pv,
  -fv)   To get annuity payment, use PMT
  function                                            = abs(pmt(rate, nper, pv,
  -fv))   To get Effective rate (EAR), use
  Effect
  function                              =
  effect(nominal_rate, npery)   To get annual percentage rate
  (APR), use nominal function       APR = nominal(effective rate,  npery) | 
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| Week3 | Chapter 7 Bond
  Pricing 
 Yield Curve      http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp Balance Sheet of WalMart    https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/wmt/financials 
 For
  discussion: ·         What is this “long term debt”? ·         Who is the lender of this “long term debt”? So
  this long term debt is called bond in the financial market. Where can you
  find the pricing information and other specifications of the bond issued by
  WMT?     FINRA – Bond market information http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp    Go to http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp  , the bond market data website of FINRA to find bond
  information. For example, find bond sponsored by Wal-mart Or, just go to www.finra.org, č Investor center č market data č bond č corporate bond   Corporate
  Bond 
   1.    
  Understand
  what is coupon, coupon rate, yield, yield to maturity, market price, par
  value, maturity, annual bond, semi-annual bond, current yield. Refer
  to the following bond at http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.jsp?ticker=C104227&symbol=WMT.GP 
 
 The above graph shows the cash flows of a five year 5% coupon
  bond.  How
  Bonds Work (video) Investing Basics: Bonds(video)   In class exercise:       1.    
  Find bonds
  sponsored by WMT ·      
  just
  go to www.finra.org, č Investor
  center č market
  data č bond č corporate bond ·      
  Search
  for Walmart bonds For discussion:  ·      
  What
  are the ratings of the WMT bonds? How does the rating agency rate a bond? Altman Z Score video
  (video) ·      
  FYI ·      
  Walmart Altman Z-Score : 4.37 (As of Today
  10/17/2022) ·      
  Walmart has a Altman Z-Score of 4.37,
  indicating it is in Safe Zones. This implies the Altman Z-Score is strong. ·      
  The zones of discrimination were as such: ·      
  When Altman Z-Score <= 1.8, it is in
  Distress Zones. ·      
  When Altman Z-Score >= 3, it is in Safe
  Zones. ·      
  When Altman Z-Score is between 1.8 and 3,
  it is in Grey Zones. ·      
  The historical rank and industry rank for
  Walmart's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below: ·      
  WMT' s Altman Z-Score Range Over the Past
  10 Years ·      
  Min: 3.9  
  Med: 4.85   Max: 8.85 ·      
  Current: 4.36 ·      
  During the past 13 years, Walmart's
  highest Altman Z-Score was 8.85. The lowest was 3.90. And the median was
  4.85. https://www.gurufocus.com/term/zscore/NYSE:WMT/Altman-Z-Score ·      
  Why
  some WMT bonds are priced higher than the par value, while others are priced
  at a discount?  ·      
  Why
  some WMT bonds have higher coupon rates than other bonds? How does WMT
  determine the coupon rates? ·      
  Why
  some WMT bonds have higher yields than other bonds? Does a bond’s yield
  change daily?  ·      
  Which
  of the WMT bonds are the most attractive one to you? Why?  http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/BondDetail.jsp?ticker=C610043&symbol=WMT4117477 2.      2.
  Understand what is coupon, coupon rate, yield, yield to maturity, market
  price, par value, maturity, annual bond, semi-annual bond, current yield.   3.      3.
  Understand how to price bond Bond
  price = abs(pv(yield, maturity, coupon, 1000))  ------- annual coupon Bond
  price = abs(pv(yield/2, maturity*2, coupon/2, 1000)) ------- semi-annual
  coupon   Also change the yield and observe the
  price changes. Summarize the price change pattern and draw a graph to
  demonstrate your findings.   Again, when yield to maturity of
  this semi_annual coupon bond is 4%, how should this WMT bond
  sell for?   4.      Understand
  how to calculate bond returns Yield
  to maturity = rate(maturity, coupon,  -market price, 1000) ----
  annual coupon Yield
  to maturity = rate(maturity*2, coupon/2,  -market price, 1000)*2
  ----- semi-annual coupon   Bond
  Calculator (www.jufinance.com/bond) For example, when the annual coupon bond
  is selling for $1,100, what is its return to investors?   For example, when the semi-annual
  coupon bond is selling for $1,100, what is its return to investors?   5.      Current
  yield: For the above bond, calculate current yield. Note: current yield = coupon/bond price  6.      Zero
  coupon bond: coupon=0 and treat it as semi-annual coupon bond. Example:
  A ten year zero coupon bond is selling for $400. How much is its yield to
  maturity? A ten year zero coupon bond’s yield to
  maturity is 10%. How much is its price?   7.      Understand
  what is bond rating and how to read those ratings. a.       Who
  are Moody, S&P and Fitch? b.      What
  is WMT’s rating? c.       Is
  the rating for WMT the highest? d.      Who
  earned the highest rating? Supplement:
  Municipal Bond 
 For class
  discussion: ·       Shall you
  invest in municipal bonds?  ·       Are
  municipal bonds better than investment grade bonds? The
  risks investing in a bond ·       Bond investing: credit Risk (video) ·       Bond investing: Interest rate risk (video) ·       Bond investing:
  increased risk (video)   Market data
  website: 1.   FINRA       http://finra-markets.morningstar.com/BondCenter/Default.jsp (FINRA bond market data) 2.      WSJ Market watch on Wall Street Journal has daily yield curve and bond
  yield information.  http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/pftools/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yph8TRldW6k 3.      Bond Online http://www.bondsonline.com/Todays_Market/ Homework ( due by 10/30/2022) 1.  Firm AAA’s bonds price =
  $850.  Coupon rate is 5% and par is $1,000. The bond has six years
  to maturity. Calculate for current yield? (5.88%) 2. For a zero coupon bond, use
  the following information to calculate its yield to maturity. (14.35%)  Years left to maturity = 10 years.
  Price = $250.  3.  For a zero coupon
  bond, use the following information to calculate its price. ($456.39)
  Years left to maturity = 10 years. Yield = 8%. 4.  Imagine that an annual
  coupon bond’s coupon rate = 5%, 15 years left. Draw price-yield profile.
  (hint: Change interest rate, calculate new price and draw the graph).  5. IBM
  5 year 2% annual coupon bond is selling for $950. How much
  this IBM bond’s YTM?  3.09% 6.  IBM 10 year 4% semi-annual coupon
  bond is selling for $950. How much is this IBM bond’s YTM?  4.63% 7. IBM 10 year 5% annual coupon
  bond offers 8% of return. How much is the price of this
  bond?   798.7 8. IBM 5 year 5% semi-annual coupon
  bond offers 8% of return. How much is the price of this bond?  $878.34 9.  IBM 20 year zero coupon bond
  offers 8% return. How much is the price of this bond? 208.29 10.   Collingwood Homes has a
  bond issue outstanding that pays an 8.5 percent coupon and matures in 18.5
  years. The bonds have a par value of $1,000 and a market price of $964.20.
  Interest is paid semiannually. What is the yield to maturity? (8.90%) 11.  Grand Adventure Properties
  offers a 9.5 percent coupon bond with annual payments. The yield to maturity
  is 11.2 percent and the maturity date is 11 years from today. What is the
  market price of this bond if the face value is $1,000? ($895.43) 12.  The zero coupon bonds of D&L
  Movers have a market price of $319.24, a face value of $1,000, and a yield to
  maturity of 9.17 percent. How many years is it until these bonds
  mature? (12.73 years) 13.  A zero coupon bond with a face
  value of $1,000 is issued with an initial price of $212.56. The bond matures
  in 25 years. What is yield to maturity?  (6.29%) 14.   The
  bonds issued by Stainless Tubs bear a 6 percent coupon, payable semiannually.
  The bonds mature in 11 years and have a $1,000 face value. Currently, the
  bonds sell for $989. What is the yield to maturity? (6.14%) Videos
  --- homework help (due by ) Part
  I        Q1-Q2
        Q3-Q4     Q5-Q8      Q9-Q14 Quiz
  2- Help Video (Quiz 2 Due by the end of week 3 Sunday on 10/23/2022) | Bond Pricing Formula (FYI) 
 
 
 
 
 Bond Pricing Excel Formula Summary of
  bond pricing excel functions To calculate bond price (annual coupon bond): Price=abs(pv(yield
  to maturity, years left to maturity, coupon rate*1000, 1000)   To calculate yield to maturity (annual coupon bond):: Yield
  to maturity = rate(years left to maturity, coupon rate *1000, -price, 1000)   To calculate bond price (semi-annual coupon bond): Price=abs(pv(yield
  to maturity/2, years left to maturity*2, coupon rate*1000/2,
  1000)   To calculate yield to maturity (semi-annual coupon
  bond): Yield
  to maturity = rate(years left to maturity*2, coupon rate *1000/2,
  -price, 1000)*2   To calculate number of years left(annual coupon bond) Number
  of years =nper(yield to maturity,  coupon rate*1000, -price, 1000)   To calculate number of years left(semi-annual coupon bond) Number
  of years =nper(yield to maturity/2,  coupon rate*1000/2, -price,
  1000)/2   To calculate coupon (annual coupon bond) Coupon
  = pmt(yield to maturity, number of years left, -price, 1000) Coupon
  rate = coupon / 1000   To calculate coupon (semi-annual coupon bond) Coupon
  = pmt(yield to maturity/2, number of years left*2, -price, 1000)*2 Coupon
  rate = coupon / 1000   Analysis: U.S. yield curve flashing more
  warning signs of recession risks ahead (FYI) By Davide Barbuscia, 7/28/2022 NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. government bond market is sending a fresh batch of signals
  that investors are increasingly convinced the Federal Reserve's aggressive
  actions to tame inflation will result in recession. The shape of the yield curve, which plots the return on all
  Treasury securities, is seen as an indicator of the future state of health of
  the economy, as inversions of the
  curve have been a reliable sign of looming recession. While Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said that he does not
  see the economy currently in a recession, spreads between different pairings
  of Treasury securities - and derivatives tied to them - have in past weeks moved
  into or toward an "inversion" when the shorter dated of the pair yields
  more than the longer one. These join another widely followed yield spread
  relationship - between 2- and 10-year notes - that has been in inversion for
  most of this month. read more "Curves are flattening and some are negative. They're
  ultimately all telling you the same thing," said Eric Theoret, global
  macro strategist at Manulife Investment Management. A steepening curve
  typically reflects expectations of stronger economic activity, higher
  inflation and interest rates. A flattening curve can signal expectations of
  rate hikes in the near term and a weaker economic outlook.   The Fed is aiming to
  achieve a so-called "soft landing" that does not entail an outright
  contraction in U.S. economic output and the rise in joblessness that
  typically accompanies that. But the moves in the bond market over the past
  week show waning confidence in the Fed's ability to achieve so benign an
  outcome. Some of those moves reversed slightly on Wednesday, with rates
  at the short end of the curve turning lower on expectations of the Fed being
  less likely to continue with super-sized hikes. On Wednesday the Fed raised its benchmark overnight interest
  rate by 0.75% to a range of between 2.25% and 2.50% as it flagged weakening
  economic data. Powell said on Wednesday that achieving a soft landing for the
  economy was challenging.   The curve is
  indicating that the Fed will have to start cutting rates after hiking. The part of the U.S.
  Treasury yield curve that compares yields on two-year Treasuries with yields
  on 10-year government bonds has been inverted for most of the past month and
  is around the most negative its been since 2000 on a closing price basis. Powell, however, has in recent months said that the short-end of
  the yield curve was a more reliable warning of an upcoming recession. "The first 18 months of the yield curve has 100% of the
  explanatory power of the yield curve, and it makes sense ... because if it's
  inverted that means the Fed is going to cut which means the economy is
  weak", he said in March. Some analysts pointed
  to another measure, the differential between what money markets expect the
  three-month federal funds rate to be in 18 months and the current three-month
  federal funds rate. That went briefly into negative territory on Tuesday,
  said George Goncalves, head of U.S. Macro Strategy at MUFG. That spread - measured
  through overnight indexed swap (OIS) rates, which reflect traders'
  expectations on the federal funds rate - was about 230 basis points in March. "It's very similar to looking at the Treasury curve, these
  are all curves that trade with tiny spreads with each other," said
  Subadra Rajappa head of U.S. rates strategy at Societe Generale. Another measurement of
  the curve, the 2-year forward rate for 3-month bills , is around the flattest
  since June 2021. Fed economists have
  said that near-term forward yield spreads - namely the differential between
  the three-month Treasury yield and what the market expects that yield to be
  in 18 months - are more reliable predictors of a recession than the
  differential between long-maturity Treasury yields and their short-maturity
  counterparts. That spread has not gone negative, though it has narrowed
  significantly from over 250 basis points in March to about 70 basis points
  this week, said MUFG's Goncalves. Another part of the curve that compares the yield on three-month
  Treasury bills and 10-year notes has flattened dramatically over the past few
  weeks, from nearly 220 basis points in May to around 15 basis points this
  week although it steepened after Powell's remarks. Separately, futures contracts tied to the Fed's policy rate
  showed this week that benchmark U.S. interest rates will peak in January
  2023, earlier than the February reading they gave last week. read more "Inverting yield curves, rising inflation, weakening
  housing data, and slumping surveys have all driven the increase (in recession
  probability) in the US," wrote Credit Suisse analysts in a research note
  on Tuesday, forecasting that the probability of the United States being in
  recession 6 and 12 months ahead is approximately 25%. "It is likely
  recession probabilities rise further in the coming months if policy rate
  hikes cause further curve inversion and cyclical data continue to
  deteriorate," they added. Protection for Inflation, With Some
  Leaks (FYI) A TIPS fund can shield
  investors from inflation to some extent, but so can other choices, like real
  estate, dividend-paying stocks and commodities.   Credit...Ben Konkol, By Tim
  Gray, Jan. 14, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/business/mutual-funds/inflation-tips-fund-etf.html Judged by their name alone,
  Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities would seem a cure for one of today’s
  main investor anxieties: inflation. Alas, that name doesn’t tell
  all you need to know. A mutual fund or
  exchange-traded fund that invests in TIPS can help prevent rising prices from
  eroding the value of your investment portfolio. And inflation is a worry
  today: It’s running at an annual rate of 7 percent, a level not seen since
  1982. That’s when “E.T.” landed in movie theaters and Michael Jackson’s
  “Thriller” thrummed on radios. But TIPS funds and E.T.F.s
  aren’t the best inflation fighters for every investor, and TIPS, a kind of
  bond issued by the U.S. Treasury, have complexities that belie their
  plain-as-boiled-potatoes label. People assume “just because
  inflation goes up, you’ll do well” with TIPS, said Lynn K. Opp, a financial
  adviser with Raymond James in Walnut Creek, Calif. But other factors, like
  rising interest rates, can sap TIPS’s returns, she said. Plus, TIPS are expensive when compared with standard Treasuries in that
  they pay less interest, Ms. Opp said. In the first week of January, a
  five-year TIPS was yielding minus 1.7 percent, while a five-year Treasury was
  yielding 1.4 percent. In effect, TIPS investors were paying the Treasury to
  hold their money.  In 2020, net new flows of about
  $22 billion gushed into them, according to Morningstar. In just the first 10
  months of 2021, those flows nearly tripled, to $61 billion.   Performance may have been the
  draw: The average TIPS fund tracked by Morningstar returned 5.5 percent in
  2021, compared with a loss of 1.5 percent for the Bloomberg Barclays
  Aggregate Bond Index, a well-known bond index. To understand TIPS funds or
  E.T.F.s, it helps to understand the underlying inflation-protected
  securities. The
  U.S. Treasury adjusts the principal of a TIPS twice a year based on the most
  recent reading of the Consumer Price Index, a government measure of
  inflation.
  When the C.P.I. climbs, the principal
  ratchets up. And when the index falls — because prices are falling — it
  ratchets down. “The interest payments can
  change,” said Gargi Chaudhuri, head of iShares investment strategy, Americas,
  for BlackRock, because those payments are based on principal that can change
  with inflation. “If you look back a decade,
  inflation expectations sat above where inflation rolled in year after year,”
  said Steve A. Rodosky, a co-manager of PIMCO’s Real Return Fund. “So people
  would’ve been better off owning nominal Treasuries.” (“Nominal” is
  professionals’ term for noninflation-protected bonds.) Perhaps TIPS’s most confusing
  quality is the nature of their inflation protection. It
  might seem that a TIPS fund would work like hiking pants that zip off into
  shorts: right for whatever (inflationary) conditions arise. But what sets
  TIPS apart is the protection they afford against unexpected inflation, said
  Roger Aliaga-Diaz, chief economist for Vanguard. Market prices for all assets
  adjust, to some extent, to reflect anticipated inflation. Prices for standard
  bonds, for example, fall to compensate for the fact that inflation has
  purloined part of their original yields. Prices for TIPS fall, too, though
  the crucial difference is that their inflation adjustments help compensate
  for that. (Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.) Whether
  you opt for a TIPS fund in your portfolio will probably turn on your age and
  expectations about inflation. Retirees
  and people approaching retirement might choose one because its value should be
  less volatile than that of other assets that can help buffer inflation, like
  stocks and commodities, said Mr. Aliaga-Diaz. Vanguard’s Target
  Retirement 2015 Fund, a so-called target-date fund, allocates 16 percent of
  its asset value to TIPS. Jennifer Ellison, a financial
  adviser in Redwood City, Calif., said her firm, Cerity Partners, currently
  recommends that clients keep 15 percent to 20 percent of the bond portion of
  their portfolios in TIPS funds. “But we have been as low as 10 percent at
  times,” she said. A
  young person might not want any allocation to a TIPS fund, preferring stock
  funds as inflation insurance instead. “Over the longer term, there’s been no better way to protect oneself
  from inflation than to have an allocation to stocks, because corporate
  earnings tend to grow at a rate that outpaces inflation, and stocks have
  appreciated at a rate that well outpaces inflation,” said Ben Johnson,
  director of global E.T.F. research for Morningstar. Even
  for retirees, a less volatile sort of stock fund, like one that invests in
  dividend payers, might blunt inflation better than a TIPS fund, Mr. Johnson
  said. “Among our favorites is the
  Vanguard Dividend Appreciation E.T.F.,” he said. “It owns stocks that have
  grown their dividends for at least 10 years running. That’s a way to dial
  down a bit of risk while maintaining some equity exposure.” Another stock option is
  Fidelity’s Stocks for Inflation E.T.F., which holds shares of companies in
  industries that tend to outperform during inflationary times. If
  you go for a TIPS fund, pick one with low costs, Mr. Johnson
  said. Costs always matter in investing, but they’re especially important here
  because all these funds, in the main, do the same thing: They buy a single
  sort of Treasury security. “In the TIPS market itself,
  it’s exceedingly difficult to add value,” he said. Portfolio managers are
  thus often allowed to add in a slug of other sorts of bonds, as well as
  derivative securities. “But you do add risk by doing that.” Among
  the cheaper TIPS offerings are the iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond E.T.F., the
  Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities E.T.F. and the Schwab U.S.
  TIPS E.T.F. All three have expense ratios of 0.05 percent or less. Inflation expectations present
  a harder puzzle for investors than your expected retirement date. In
  theory, if you think inflation will exceed the market’s expectations, a TIPS
  fund would be a good bet. Investment
  pros make this assessment by checking the break-even inflation rate — the
  difference between the yields on TIPS and nominal Treasuries. “It’s the rate of inflation you need to average for TIPS to outperform
  nominal Treasuries over the period for which you’re investing,” said
  Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at the Schwab Center for Financial
  Research. In the first week of
  January, that rate was about 3 percent for five-year Treasuries versus
  five-year TIPS. People
  who think inflation will exceed that level for the next five years might want
  a TIPS fund.
  (They also might want to ask themselves why their inflation intuition is
  better than the market’s.) Another vexation is how TIPS
  funds state their yields. The
  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission mandates a standard formula for computing
  yields — the 30-day yield. That formula doesn’t work well for TIPS offerings
  because the regular principal adjustments to the underlying securities can
  distort its result. Some fund companies calculate
  the 30-day yield including the principal adjustments; some don’t. State Street Global Advisors,
  which sponsors the SPDR Portfolio TIPS E.T.F., is one that doesn’t. “In our view, it’s more
  conservative to not include the inflation adjustment,” said Matthew
  Bartolini, head of SPDR Americas research for State Street. “Including it can
  lead to a misleading statistic — it’s likely to overstate the eventual yield
  of the fund.” Perhaps
  the crucial fact to know about TIPS funds is the most basic one: They’re bond
  offerings, buffeted by the same macrofactors that buffet other bonds. “If
  interest rates go up, the price is going to go down, pretty much irrespective
  of what happens to inflation,” said Ms. Jones of the Schwab Center. She cautioned, too, that
  “there’s no guaranteed way to beat inflation.” A TIPS fund might help. So
  might an appropriate stock fund. “Having some allocation to things like
  real-estate investment trusts and precious metals makes sense, too, but
  that’s not necessarily going to beat inflation, either,” she said. FYI: I bond I Bond: What It Is,
  How It Works, Where to Buy By ADAM HAYES Updated September 18, 2022,
  Reviewed by ROGER WOHLNER, Fact checked by SUZANNE KVILHAUG https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/seriesibond.asp   What Is a Series I Bond? A series I bond is a non-marketable, interest-bearing U.S.
  government savings bond that earns a combined fixed interest rate and
  variable inflation rate (adjusted semiannually). Series I bonds are meant to give
  investors a return plus protection from inflation. Most Series I bonds are issued
  electronically, but it is possible to purchase paper certificates with a
  minimum of $50 using your income tax refund, according to Treasury Direct.   KEY TAKEAWAYS ·      
  A series I bond is a non-marketable, interest-bearing U.S.
  government savings bond. ·      
  Series I bonds give investors a return plus inflation protection
  on their purchasing power and are considered a low-risk investment. ·      
  The bonds cannot be bought or sold in the secondary markets. ·      
  Series I bonds earn a fixed interest rate for the life of the
  bond and a variable inflation rate that is adjusted each May and November. ·      
  These bonds have a 20-year initial maturity with a 10-year
  extended period for a total of 30 years.   How Do I Bonds Work? I bonds are issued at a fixed interest rate for up to 30 years,
  plus a variable inflation rate that is adjusted each May and November. This gives the
  bondholder some protection from the effects of inflation. Understanding Series I Bonds Series I bonds are non-marketable bonds that are part of the
  U.S. Treasury savings bond program designed to offer low-risk investments. Their
  non-marketable feature means they cannot be bought or sold in the secondary
  markets. The two types of interest that a Series I bond earns are an interest
  rate that is fixed for the life of the bond and an inflation rate that is
  adjusted each May and November based on changes in the non-seasonally
  adjusted consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U).   The fixed-rate component of the Series I bond is determined by
  the Secretary of the Treasury and is announced every six months on the first
  business day in May and the first business day in November. That fixed rate
  is then applied to all Series I bonds issued during the next six months is
  compounded semiannually and does not change throughout the life of the bond. Like the fixed interest rate, the inflation rate is announced twice a
  year in May and November and is determined by changes to the Consumer Price
  Index (CPI), which is used to gauge inflation in the U.S. economy. The
  change in the inflation rate is applied to the bond every six months from the
  bond's issue date. Where Can I Buy Series I Savings Bonds? U.S. savings bonds, including Series I bonds, can only be
  purchased online from the U.S. Treasury, using the TreasuryDirect website. You can also use your
  federal tax refund to purchase Series I bonds. | 
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| Week 4 | Chapter 8 Stock
  Valuation   Part
  I Dividend payout and Stock Valuation For class
  discussion: ·         Why can we
  use dividend to estimate a firm’s intrinsic value? ·    Are
  future dividends predictable? F Dividend History·       
   EX-DIVIDEND DATE 08/10/2022 ·       
   DIVIDEND YIELD 4.92% ·       
   ANNUAL DIVIDEND $0.60 ·       
   P/E RATIO 4.36 https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/f/dividend-history 
     Wal-Mart Dividend History ·    Refer
  to the following table for Wal-mart
  (WMT’s dividend history) http://stock.walmart.com/investors/stock-information/dividend-history/default.aspx 
 WMT Dividend Historyhttps://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/wmt/dividend-history WMT Dividend History·       
   EX-DIVIDEND DATE 08/11/2022 ·       
   DIVIDEND YIELD 1.64% ·       
   ANNUAL DIVIDEND $2.24 ·       
   P/E RATIO 27.83 
     For class discussion: What conclusions can be drawn from
  the above information? Can we figure out the stock price of
  Wal-Mart based on dividend, with reasonable assumptions? Stock SplitsWal-Mart
  Stores, Inc. was incorporated on Oct. 31, 1969. On Oct. 1, 1970, Walmart
  offered 300,000 shares of its common stock to the public at a price of $16.50
  per share. Since that time, we have had 11 two-for-one (2:1) stock splits. On
  a purchase of 100 shares at $16.50 per share on our first offering, the
  number of shares has grown as follows: 
 Can you estimate the
  expected dividend in 2022? And in 2023? And on and on… 
   Can you write down the math equation
  now? WMT stock price = ? WMT
  stock price = npv(return, D1, D2, …D∞)  WMT
  stock price = D1/(1+r) +  D2/(1+r)2
  +  D3/(1+r)3 +  D4/(1+r)4 + …   Can you calculate now? It is hard
  right because we assume dividend payment goes to infinity. How can we
  simplify the calculation?   We can assume that dividend grows at
  certain rate, just as the table on the right shows. Discount rate is r (based on Beta and
  CAPM that we will learn in chapter 13)        https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/wmt 
 What
  does each item indicate?   From
  finviz.com   https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=WMT 
     Part II: Constant Dividend
  Growth-Dividend growth model Calculate
  stock prices 1)      Given next dividends and price Po=  Po=  Po=  Po=  …… 
 Refer to http://www.calculatinginvestor.com/2011/05/18/gordon-growth-model/   ·        Now let’s apply this Dividend
  growth model in problem solving.   Constant dividend
  growth model calculator  (www.jufinance.com/stock)  Equations ·      
  Po=
  D1/(r-g) or Po= Do*(1+g)/(r-g) ·      
  r
  = D1/Po+g = Do*(1+g)/Po+g ·       g= r-D1/Po = r-
  Do*(1+g)/Po ·    
  D1 = Po *(r-g); D0 =
  Po*(r-g)/(1+g) ·       Capital Gain yield = g ·       Dividend Yield = r – g = D1
  / Po = Do*(1+g) / Po ·      
  D1=Do*(1+g);
  D2= D1*(1+g); D3=D2*(1+g)… Exercise: 1.     
  Consider the valuation of a common stock that
  paid $1.00 dividend at the end of the last year and is expected to pay a cash
  dividend in the future. Dividends are expected to grow at 10% and the
  investors required rate of return is 17%. How much is the price? How much is
  the dividend yield? Capital gain yield? 2.     The
  current market price of stock is $90 and the stock pays dividend of $3 (D1)
  with a growth rate of 5%. What is the return of this stock? How much is the
  dividend yield? Capital gain yield? Part III: Non-Constant Dividend
  Growth  Calculate
  stock prices 1)      Given next dividends and price Po=  Po=  Po=  Po=  …… Non-constant
  dividend growth model Equations Pn
  = Dn+1/(r-g) = Dn*(1+g)/(r-g), since year n, dividends
  start to grow at a constant rate. Where
  Dn+1= next dividend in year n+1; Do
  = just paid dividend in year n;  r=stock
  return; g= dividend growth rate;  Pn=
  current market price in year n; Po
  = npv(r, D1, D2, …, Dn+Pn) Or,
   Po
  = D1/(1+r) + D2/(1+r)2 + … + (Dn+Pn)/(1+r)n
   Calculator: Non-Constant Dividend Growth Calculator In class exercise for
  non-constant dividend growth model 1.    
  You expect
  AAA Corporation to generate the following free cash flows over the next five
  years: 
 Since year 6, you estimate that AAA's free cash flows will
  grow at 6% per year. WACC of AAA = 15%  ·       Calculate the enterprise value for DM Corporation. ·       Assume that AAA has $500 million debt and 14 million shares
  outstanding, calculate its stock price. Answer:  
   2. AAA pays no dividend
  currently. However, you expect it pay an annual dividend of $0.56/share 2
  years from now with a growth rate of 4% per year thereafter. Its equity cost
  = 12%, then its stock price=?   Answer:
   Do=0 D1=0 D2=0.56 g=4%
  after year 2 č
  P2 = D3/(r-g), D3=D2*(1+4%) č
  P2 = 0.56*(1+4%)/(12%-4%) = 7.28 r=12% Po=?  Po =
  NPV(12%, D1, D2+P2), D2 = 0.56, P2=7.28. SO Po = NPV(12%, 0,0.56+7.28) =
  6.25 (Note: for non-constant growth
  model, calculate price when dividends start to grow at the constant rate.
  Then use NPV function using dividends in previous years, last dividend plus
  price. Or use calculator at https://www.jufinance.com/dcf/
  ) 3. Required return =12%. 
  Do = $1.00, and the dividend will grow by 30% per year for the next 4
  years.  After t = 4, the dividend is
  expected to grow at a constant rate of 6.34% per year forever.  What is the stock price ($40)? Answer:
   Do=1 D1 =
  1*(1+30%) = 1.3 D2=
  1.3*(1+30%) = 1.69 D3 =
  1.69*(1+30%) = 2.197 D4 =
  2.197*(1+30%) = 2.8561 D5 =
  2.8561*(1+6.34%), g=6.34% P4 =
  D5/(r-g) = 2.8561*(1+6.34%) /(12% - 6.34%)  Po = NPV(12%, 1.3, 1.69, 2.197,
  2.8561+2.8561*(1+6.34%)) /(12% - 6.34%)) = 40 Or use calculator at https://www.jufinance.com/dcf/    Part IV: How to pick stocks?
  (FYI) How to pick
  stocks – Does it work? PE ratio Stock screening tools ·      
  Reuters
  stock screener to help select stocks http://stockscreener.us.reuters.com/Stock/US/   ·      
  FINVIZ.com http://finviz.com/screener.ashx use
  screener on finviz.com to narrow down your choices of stocks, such as
  PE<15, PEG<1, ROE>30%   ·      
  WSJ
  stock screen http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/stock_screener.html   ·      
  Simply
  the Web's Best Financial Charts You can
  find analyst rating from MSN money For
  instance, ANALYSTS RATINGS Zacks average brokerage
  recommendation is Moderate Buy 
 Summary of stock screening rules
  from class discussion PEG<1 PE<15  (? FB’s
  PE>100?) Growth rate<20 ROE>10% Analyst ranking:
  strong buy only Zacks average
  =1 (from Ranking stocks using PEG ratio) current
  price>5        How to pick stocks Capital
  Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JApBhv3VLTo   Ranking
  stocks using PEG ratio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekW_hTehNU HOMEWORK (Due with final by
  11/17/2022) 1.      Northern
  Gas recently paid a $2.80 annual dividend on its common stock. This dividend
  increases at an average rate of 3.8 percent per year. The stock is currently
  selling for $26.91 a share. What is the market rate of return? (14.60
  percent) 3.    
  IBM just paid $3.00 dividend per share to
  investors. The dividend growth rate is 10%. What is the expected dividend of
  the next year? ($3.3) 5.   
  Investors of
  Creamy Custard common stock earns 15% of return. It just paid a
  dividend of $6.00 and dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 6%
  indefinitely. What is expected price of Creamy Custard's stock? ($70.67)   Quiz 3- Help Video (Quiz
  3 Due by the end of week 3 Sunday on 10/30/2022) Part I          Part II      Part III     Part IV 
 | P/E Ratio Summary by
  industry (FYI) --- Thanks to Dr Damodaran Data Used: Multiple data services Date of Analysis: Data used is as of January 2021 Download as an excel file instead: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/pedata.xls For global datasets: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/data.html 
 Details
  about how to derive the model mathematically (FYI) The Gordon growth model is a simple discounted cash flow
  (DCF) model which can be used to value a stock, mutual fund, or even the
  entire stock market.  The model is named after Myron Gordon who first
  published the model in 1959. The Gordon model assumes that a financial security
  pays a periodic dividend (D) which grows at a constant rate
  (g). These growing dividend payments are assumed to continue forever.
  The future dividend payments are discounted at the required rate of return (r)
  to find the price (P) for the stock or fund. Under these simple assumptions, the price of the
  security is given by this equation: 
 In this equation, I’ve used the “0” subscript
  on the price (P) and the “1” subscript on the dividend (D) to
  indicate that the price is calculated at time zero and the dividend is the
  expected dividend at the end of period one. However, the equation is
  commonly written with these subscripts omitted. Obviously, the assumptions built into this
  model are overly simplistic for many real-world valuation problems. Many
  companies pay no dividends, and, for those that do, we may expect
  changing payout ratios or growth rates as the business matures. Despite
  these limitations, I believe spending some time experimenting with the
  Gordon model can help develop intuition about the relationship between
  valuation and return. Deriving the Gordon Growth Model EquationThe Gordon growth model calculates the present value of
  the security by summing an infinite series of discounted dividend payments
  which follows the pattern shown here: 
 Multiplying both sides of the previous equation by
  (1+g)/(1+r) gives: 
 We can then subtract the second equation from the first
  equation to get: 
 Rearranging and simplifying: 
 
 Finally,
  we can simplify further to get the Gordon growth model equation Stock Splits
  Calendar (FYI)10/25/2022 https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stock-splits   
 Dividend
  Calendar (FYI)10/25/2022 https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/dividends 
 Here are the 7 biggest investing mistakes you want to avoid,
  according to financial experts Here are the common
  mistakes that the average investor makes with their money. Updated Thu, Apr 7 2022,
  Elizabeth Gravier https://www.cnbc.com/select/biggest-investing-mistakes/   It’s no secret that
  the pandemic brought a wave of new investors eager to give a shot at playing
  the market.   In fact, a Charles
  Schwab study found that 15% of all current U.S. stock market
  investors got their start in 2020 — giving rise to what Schwab calls the
  “Investor Generation.”   The pandemic prompted
  the perfect timing to begin investing: stocks became cheaper to buy as the
  market dipped, savings account interest rates got slashed in half and many
  young consumers were stranded at home with nothing much else to do.   Plus, now that many
  brokerage firms now offer accounts with no minimums and zero-commission
  trading, just about anyone can start investing, even with a small amount of
  money.   To help guide this new
  generation of investors, as well as their more experienced counterparts,
  Select spoke with a handful of certified financial planners about what to
  watch out for.   Here are the seven biggest investing mistakes they say are the
  most common.   ·       Constantly watching the markets ·       Chasing the trends ·       Following bad advice from social media ·       Not giving your investments time to grow ·       Investing money you’ll soon need ·       Having unclear investing goals ·       Delaying investing altogether   Mistake 1: Constantly watching the
  markets   Of all the mistakes we
  heard, this one came up the most.   “I have told many
  clients to turn off their TVs and stop watching the daily market news,”
  Danielle Harrison, a Missouri-based CFP at Harrison Financial Planning, tells
  Select.   While it’s normal (and
  generally advised) to keep an eye on what’s happening in the overall economy, it’s
  easy to get swept up in the excitement or doom and gloom of it all. The
  markets are constantly moving and trying to follow along in real-time can
  lead you to continuously checking or changing your investments when you’re
  better off leaving them alone for the long haul.   “You’re likely to
  perform worse than if you just stuck with your original strategy in the first
  place,” says Douglas Boneparth, a New York City-based CFP, president of Bone
  Fide Wealth and co-author of The Millennial Money Fix. Viewing negative
  performance without context can lead to rash decision making, while positive
  performance can instill overconfidence, explains Joe Lum, a California-based
  CFP and wealth advisor at Intersect Capital.   Lum agrees that it’s
  best for investors to avoid tracking their performance (both good and bad)
  too frequently. While it’s easier than ever to get instant information on
  your portfolio’s progress, it doesn’t mean it’s necessary.   “If we were running a
  marathon, it wouldn’t make sense to track our mileage in quarter-mile
  increments,” Lum says. “The same can be said about long-term investing, particularly
  in retirement accounts which traditionally have the longest time horizon.”   Before investing,
  Boneparth suggests asking yourself, “Can I hold these positions for a long
  period of time?”   “Investing should be
  boring,” Harrison says. Her advice? Look at your investments on a quarterly
  basis, which should be more than enough for most investors.   Mistake 2: Chasing the trends Whether it be
  participating in a frenzy over GameStop stock, which we all saw back in
  January, or investing in the newest cryptocurrency, chasing the trends is a
  common mistake investors make.   Lauryn Williams, a
  Texas-based CFP and founder of Worth Winning, says she sees investors
  follow the next hot stock not knowing why they are choosing a particular
  investment other than the fact that “someone else says it is awesome.”   “A lot investors make
  the mistake of chasing trends or what’s cool because of FOMO,” Boneparth
  adds. He recommends always doing your due diligence before putting your money
  in the market. Or, as another option for a more hands-off approach, invest
  passively in the markets through index funds and watch your portfolio grow
  over time. By using your brokerage account to buy diversified
  mutual and index funds, you take on less risk than when you buy an individual
  company’s stock.   The best free stock
  trading platforms Select reviewed over
  12 online brokers that offer zero-commission trading and narrowed down
  the top six platforms for all sorts of investors: TD
  Ameritrade; Ally Invest; E*TRADE; Vanguard; Charles Schwab; and Fidelity.   These six offer the
  widest range of investment options, user-friendly technology, quality
  customer support and educational resources. You can read more about our
  methodology on selecting the best $0 commission trading platforms below.   Mistake 3: Following bad advice from social media “I cringe at the
  misinformation out there surrounding investing and finances in general,
  especially on social media,” Harrison says.   The overall guidance
  from experts is simple: Don’t take investment advice from those who
  don’t know your personal financial situation. For example, you may feel
  pressured by someone on social media to start investing in a certain company,
  but they aren’t clued in to what other investment options you may have. You
  may be better off putting that money in your employer-sponsored retirement
  account, especially if your company matches contributions up to a certain
  percentage of your salary.   Make sure to do your own
  research when investing and read up on the person giving financial advice on
  TikTok or another social-media platform. Whether you are just
  starting out or you’re a more seasoned investor, a good place to begin is
  with FINRA’s free e-learning program for investors.   Mistake 4: Not giving your investments time to grow When it comes to
  investing, time is important. Ideally, you should hold investments for as
  long as you can to maximize your returns. “Investing is something you do with
  the expectation of reasonable returns over a long-term period,” Harrison
  says.   A big mistake Williams
  sees is investors bailing out on an investment because they did not double
  their money in a certain period of time, which is usually days or weeks.   “If you need your money
  to grow urgently, you probably don’t have proper savings,” she says. “Quick
  growth comes with a lot of risk.” More about this in Mistake No. 5 below.   Mistake 5: Investing money you’ll soon need People jumping into the
  markets before building themselves a strong financial foundation is the
  biggest mistake Boneparth sees
  investors make.   Prior to investing,
  you should feel in control of how you spend your money. A big part of that is
  building a cash reserve so you don’t need to rely on your investments when
  you run into an emergency or want to make a certain purchase.   “The stock market can
  be volatile, and you’d hate to lose the money you were saving for something
  like a down payment on a home you were wanting to purchase,” Harrison says.   A good way to know if
  you’re ready to invest is understanding if you have a healthy amount of cash
  in a savings account set aside for all your near-term goals. Harrison
  suggests that money needed within a relatively short time period, such as
  within three years, should not be invested in stocks.   Mistake 6: Having unclear investing goals Once you have a
  separate savings net set aside that you can fall back on, make sure you have
  clear goals as you go into investing.   Harrison warns that
  investing to make more money is rarely the goal. Instead, people should see
  money as a tool for meeting their other goals. Making investing all about
  returns is a common mistake she sees.   “You don’t have to
  chase high returns that also correlate with higher risk, if you can
  adequately meet your goals with less risky investments,” Harrison says.   Many investors use the
  S&P 500 as a benchmark for their investment performance, but Lum points
  out that this index is often not a fair comparison against individuals’
  actual portfolios.   “While the S&P 500
  serves as an easy proxy for how ‘the market is doing,’ it is important to
  remember that the design of your portfolio and performance should be aligned to
  meet your goals — not an index that doesn’t know your financial situation,
  goals or time horizon,” Lum says.   Mistake 7: Delaying investing altogether Lastly, choosing to
  never invest at all is a costly mistake. Keeping all your cash in a bank
  account means that money loses its purchasing power due to the rising rate of
  inflation.   “Some people are so
  scared of investing that they never even begin and lose out on the amazing
  compounding effect that can happen over the long term,” Harrison says.          Index funds are one of the easiest ways to invest — here’s how
  they work (FYI only) Index investing allows
  you to put money in the largest U.S. companies with low fees and minimal
  risk. Updated Thu, Apr 7
  2022, Elizabeth Gravier   Plenty of people shy away
  from investing because of fear.   In fact, a survey from
  Ally Invest found that 65% of adults say they find investing in the stock
  market to be scary and/or intimidating. Whether it’s the concern you’ll make
  a bad investment and lose money or a lack of access to quality investing
  advice, at the end of the day that fear is holding you back from really
  growing your net worth.   The good news is there
  are many easy ways to invest; you don’t have to worry about picking
  individual stocks, and hiring an expensive advisor isn’t always necessary.
  One of the easiest ways to get started investing is through index funds.   How index funds work Index funds are
  investment funds that follow a benchmark index, such as the S&P 500 or
  the Nasdaq 100.   When you put money in
  an index fund, that cash is then used to invest in all the companies that
  make up the particular index, which gives you a more diverse portfolio than
  if you were buying individual stocks.   Let’s use the S&P
  500 as an example. The S&P 500 is one of the major indexes that tracks
  the performance of the 500 largest companies in the U.S. Investing in an
  S&P 500 fund (one of the most popular) means your investments are tied to
  the performance of a wide range of companies.   Because the goal of
  index funds is to mirror the same holdings of whatever index they track, they
  are naturally diversified and thus hold a lower risk than individual stock
  holdings. Market indexes tend to have a good track record, too. Though the
  S&P 500 certainly fluctuates, it has historically generated nearly a 10%
  average annual return over time for investors. (Just remember that future
  returns are not guaranteed.)   Index investing is a
  form of passive investing Index investors don’t
  need to actively manage the stocks and bonds investment as closely since the
  fund is just copying a particular index. This is why index funds are known as
  passive investing — and it’s what sets them apart from mutual funds.   Mutual funds are
  actively managed by fund managers who choose your investments. The goal with
  mutual funds is to beat the market, while the goal with index funds is simply
  to match the market’s performance. Since index funds don’t require daily
  human management, they have lower management costs (called “expense ratios”)
  than mutual funds. The money saved in fees by investing in an index fund over
  a mutual fund can save you lots of money in the long term and in turn help
  you make more money.   A common strategy for
  many investors who have a long investment timeline is to regularly invest
  money into an S&P 500 index fund (known as dollar-cost averaging) and
  watch their money grow over time.   Get started index
  investing with a brokerage account Some of the top index
  funds are those that track the S&P 500 and have low costs. For example,
  Charles Schwab’s S&P 500 Index Fund (SWPPX) is a straightforward option
  with no investment minimum. Its expense ratio is 0.02%, meaning every $10,000
  invested costs $2 annually. Passive, or index funds, generally have a 0.2%
  expense ratio, so this is notably low.   For an option with no
  expense ratio, consider the Fidelity ZERO Large Cap Index (FNILX). Though the
  fund doesn’t technically track the S&P 500, the Fidelity U.S. Large Cap
  Index tracks large capitalization stocks, which the website says, “are
  considered to be stocks of the largest 500 U.S. companies.”   To invest in an index
  fund, you’ll need to open a brokerage account, a traditional IRA or a Roth
  IRA (you can often choose to invest in index funds through your employer’s
  401(k) too). Once your account is open and funded, you can choose from a
  number of different index funds, like an S&P 500 fund, a fund that tracks
  government bonds or a fund that tracks international stocks.   Also, consider using a
  robo-advisor like Wealthfront and Betterment (which Select rated highly on
  our list of the best robo-advisors), which will invest in a handful of index
  funds and ETFs based on your risk tolerance and investment timeline.
  Robo-advisors will automatically rebalance your portfolio based on market conditions
  and have much lower fees than traditional financial advisors. | 
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| Chapter 9 Capital
  Budgeting   
 1.      NPV Excel syntax Syntax   NPV(rate,value1,value2, ...)   Rate     is the rate of discount over
  the length of one period.   Value1, value2,
  ...     are 1 to
  29 arguments representing the payments and income. ·         Value1, value2, ... must be equally spaced in
  time and occur at the end of each    period. NPV uses the
  order of value1, value2, ... to interpret the order of cash flows.
  Be sure to enter your payment and income values in the correct sequence.   2.      IRR Excel syntax Syntax    IRR(values, guess)    Values  is an array or a reference to cells
  that contain numbers for which you want to calculate the internal rate of
  return.   Guess     is a number that you guess is
  close to the result of IRR.   
 
 
 Or, PI =
  NPV / CFo +1 Profitable
  index (PI) =1 + NPV / absolute value of CFo 3.     MIRR( values, finance_rate, reinvest_rate ) Where
  the function arguments are as follows: 
 
 Modified Rate of Return:
  Definition & Example (video)https://study.com/academy/lesson/modified-rate-of-return-definition-example.html  NPV, IRR, Payback Period calculator I NPV, IRR, Payback Period calculator II 
 
 Excel Template - NPV, IRR, MIRR, PI, Payback,
  Discounted payback NPV
  Profile in Excel Demonstration (Video, FYI)   In class exercise   Part I: Single project 1.    
  How much is MIRR? IRR? Payback period?
  Discounted payback period? NPV?  WACC:  11.00% Year                0          1          2          3           Cash
  flows      -$800   $350    $350    $350   Answer: 1)    
  NPV:    NPV = -800 + 350/(1+11%) +
  350/(1+11%)2 + 350/(1+11%)3  = 55.30 Or in excel:  = npv(11%, 350, 350, 350)-800 = 55.30 2)    
  IRR:  
 So NPV = 0 = -800 +
  350/(1+IRR) + 350/(1+IRR)2 + 350/(1+IRR)3 , use Solver,
  can get IRR = 14.93% Or in excel:  
 3)    
  PI: profitable index 
 SO, PI= (350/(1+11%) + 350/(1+11%)2 + 350/(1+11%)3
  ) / 800 = 1.069 Or PI = NPV/800 + 1 = 55.30/800 + 1 = 1.069 4)    
  Payback period:  
 A portion of the third year = (800-350-350)/350 = 100/350 =
  0.2857 So it takes 2 + 0.2857 = 2.2857 years to pay off the debt of
  $800.  5)    
  Discounted payback period:  
 Note: All the cash flows in the above equation should be the
  present values.  
 A portion of the third year = (800-318.18-289.26)/262.96 =
  0.72 So it takes 2 + 0.72 = 2.72 years to pay off the debt of $800.
   Or use the calculator at https://www.jufinance.com/capital/ Part
  II: Multi-Projects 1.    
  Projects S and L, whose cash flows are
  shown below.  These projects are
  mutually exclusive, equally risky, and not repeatable.  The CEO believes the IRR is the best
  selection criterion, while the CFO advocates the NPV.  If the decision is made by choosing the
  project with the higher IRR rather than the one with the higher NPV, how much,
  if any, value will be forgone, i.e., what's the chosen NPV versus the maximum
  possible NPV?  Note that (1) “true value” is measured by NPV,
  and (2) under some conditions the choice of IRR vs. NPV will have no effect
  on the value gained or lost. WACC:  7.50% Year    0                          1                2            3          4           CFS     -$1,100               $550          $600       $100    $100 CFL     -$2,700               $650           $725      $800    $1,400 Answer:   
   
 If the required rate of return is 10%. Which
  project shall you choose? 1)      How
  much is the cross over rate? (answer: 11.8%) 2)      How
  is your decision if the required rate of return is 13%? (answer: NPV of
  B>NPV of A) ·         Rule for mutually exclusive projects: (answer:
  Choose B) ·         What about the two projects are independent?
  (answer: Choose both) Solution: 
 Part III More on IRR – (non-conventional cash flow)  Suppose an investment will
  cost $90,000 initially and will generate the following cash flows: –    Year 1: 132,000 –    Year 2: 100,000 –    Year 3: -150,000 The required return is 15%.
  Should we accept or reject the project? 1)      How  does the
  NPV profile look like? (Answer: Inverted NPV profile) 2)      IRR1= 10.11% --
  answer 3)      IRR2= 42.66% --
  answer Solution: 
   HOMEWORK(Due with final by 11/17/2022) Year   Cash flows 1                    $8,000 2                    4,000 3                    3,000 4                    5,000 5                    10,000   1)      How
  much is the payback period (approach one)?   ----
  4 years 2)      If
  the firm has a 10% required rate of return. How much is NPV (approach
  2)?-- $2456.74 3)      If
  the firm has a 10% required rate of return. How much is IRR (approach
  3)? ---- 14.55% 4)      If
  the firm has a 10% required rate of return. How much is PI (approach
  4)? ---- 1.12 Question 2: Project with an initial cash outlay of $60,000 with
  following free cash flows for 5 years.       Year    FCF                Initial
  outlay    –60,000                 1          25,000                 2          24,000                 3          13,000       4          12,000       5          11,000  The firm has a 15% required rate of return. Calculate payback period, NPV, IRR and PI.
  Analyze your results.  Question 3: Mutually Exclusive
  Projects 1)      Consider
  the following cash flows for one-year Project A and B, with required rates of
  return of 10%. You have limited capital and can invest in one but one
  project. Which one? §  Initial
  Outlay: A = -$200; B = -$1,500 §  Inflow:            A
  = $300; B = $1,900   2)      Example:
  Consider two projects, A and B, with initial outlay of $1,000, cost of
  capital of 10%, and following cash flows in years 1, 2, and 3: A:
  $100                       $200                $2,000 B:
  $650                       $650                $650  Which
  project should you choose if they are mutually exclusive? Independent?
  Crossover rate? (mutually
  exclusive: A’s NPV=758.83 > B’s NPV = 616.45, so choose A; Independent,
  choose all positive NPV, so choose both;  Crossover
  rate = 21.01%. The calculator does not work. Use IRR in Excel) Quiz 4- chapter 9 –
  (no video prepared; Could use the calculator) (Quiz 2 Due by the end of week
  3 Sunday on 11/6/2022) Homework help videos (chapter 9) | Simple
  Rules’ for Running a BusinessFrom the 20-page cellphone contract to the five-pound employee
  handbook, even the simple things seem to be getting more complicated. Companies have been complicating things for themselves, too—analyzing hundreds of factors when making decisions, or
  consulting reams of data to resolve every budget dilemma. But those
  requirements might be wasting time and muddling priorities. So argues Donald Sull,
  a lecturer at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute
  of Technology who has also worked for McKinsey & Co. and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC. In the book Simple
  Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, out this week from Houghton
  Mifflin Harcourt HMHC -1.36%,
  he and Kathleen Eisenhardt of Stanford University claim that
  straightforward guidelines lead to better results than complex formulas. Mr. Sull recently spoke with At Work about
  what companies can do to simplify, and why five basic rules can beat a
  50-item checklist. Edited excerpts: WSJ: Where, in the business
  context, might “simple rules” help more than a complicated
  approach? Donald Sull: Well, a common decision that people face in organizations is
  capital allocation. In many organizations, there will be thick procedure
  books or algorithms–one company I worked with had an
  algorithm that had almost 100 variables for every project. These are very cumbersome
  approaches to making decisions and can waste time. Basically, any decision
  about how to focus resources—either people or money
  or attention—can benefit from simple rules. WSJ: Can you give an example of
  how that simplification works in a company? Sull: There’s
  a German company called Weima GmBH that makes shredders. At one point,
  they were getting about 10,000 requests and could only fill about a thousand
  because of technical capabilities, so they had this massive problem of
  sorting out which of these proposals to pursue. They had a very detailed checklist with 40 or 50 items. People
  had to gather data and if there were gray areas the proposal would go to
  management. But because the data was hard to obtain and there were so many
  different pieces, people didn’t always fill out the checklists completely. Then
  management had to discuss a lot of these proposals personally because there
  was incomplete data. So top management is spending a disproportionate amount
  of time discussing this low-level stuff. Then Weima came up with guidelines that the
  frontline sales force and engineers could use to quickly decide whether a
  request fell in the “yes,” “no” or “maybe” category. They did it with five
  rules only, stuff like “Weima had to
  collect at least 70% of the price before the unit leaves the factory.” After that, only the “maybes” were sent to management. This
  dramatically decreased the amount of time management spend evaluating these
  projects–that time was decreased by almost a factor
  of 10. Or, take Frontier Dental Laboratories in Canada. They were
  working with a sales force of two covering the entire North American market.
  Limiting their sales guidelines to a few factors that made someone likely to
  be receptive to Frontier—stuff like “dentists
  who have their own practice” and “dentists
  with a website”—helped focus their efforts and
  increase sales 42% in a declining market. WSJ: Weima used five factors—is
  that the optimal number? And how do you choose which rules to follow? Sull: You should have four to six
  rules. Any more than that, you’ll spend too much time trying to follow
  everything perfectly. The entire reason simple rules help is because they
  force you to prioritize the goals that matter. They’re
  easy to remember, they don’t confuse or stress you,
  they save time. They should be tailored to your specific goals, so you choose
  the rules based on what exactly you’re trying to
  achieve. And you should of course talk to others. Get information from
  different sources, and ask them for the top things that worked for them. But
  focus on whether what will work for you and your circumstances. WSJ: Is there a business leader
  you can point to who has embraced the “simple rules” guideline? Donald Sull: Let’s look at when Alex Behring took
  over America
  Latina Logistica SARUMO3.BR +1.59%,
  the Brazilian railway and logistics company. With a budget of $15 million,
  how do you choose among $200 million of investment requests, all of which are
  valid? The textbook business-school answer to this is that you run the
  NPV (net present value) test on each project and rank-order them by NPV. Alex
  Behring knows this. He was at the top of the class at Harvard Business School. But instead Similarly, the global-health arm of the Gates Foundation gets
  many, many funding requests. But since they know that their goal is to have
  the most impact worldwide, they focus on projects in developing countries
  because that’s where the money will stretch farther. | 
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| Week 5 - Chapter 14 Cost of Capital     
  For class discussion: · What is WACC? · Why is it important? · WACC increases, good or bad to stock holders? · How to apply WACC to figure out firm value?   
 One option (if beta is given, refer to chapter 13)   
 Another option (if dividend is given): 
   
 WACC Formula 
   
 
 WACC calculator (annual
  coupon bond) (www.jufinance.com/wacc) 
     WACC calculator  (semi-annual coupon bond) (www.jufinance.com/wacc_1) 
 
 WACC Calculator help
  videos FYI 
 Summary of Equations 
 Discount rate to figure out the value of projects is called WACC (weighted average cost of capital) 
 WACC = weight of debt * cost of debt + weight of equity *( cost of equity) 
 Wd= total debt / Total capital = total borrowed / total capital We= total equity/ Total capital Cost of debt = rate(nper,
  coupon, -(price – flotation costs), 1000)*(1-tax rate) Cost of Equity = D1/(Po – Flotation Cost) + g D1: Next period dividend; Po: Current stock price; g: dividend growth rate Note: flotation costs = flotation percentage * price 
 Or if beta is given, use CAPM model (refer to chapter 13) Cost of equity = risk free
  rate + beta *(market return – risk free rate)            Cost of equity = risk free rate +
  beta * market risk premium 
  In Class Exercise: A firm borrows money from bond market. The price they paid is $950 for the bond with 5% coupon rate and 10 years to mature. Flotation cost is $40. For the new stocks, the expected dividend is $2 with a growth rate of 10% and price of $40. The flotation cost is $4. The company raises capital in equal proportions i.e. 50% debt and 50% equity (such as total $1m raised and half million is from debt market and the other half million is from stock market). Tax rate 34%. What is WACC (weighted average cost of capital, cost of capital)? (Answer: 9.84%) 1) Why does the firm raise capital from the financial market? Is there of any costs of doing so? What do you think? 2) What is cost of debt? (Kd = rate(nper, coupon, -(price – flotation costs $)), 1000)*(1-tax rate)) 3) Cost of equity? (Ke = (D1/(Price – flotation costs $)) +g, or Ke = Rrf + Beta*MRP)) Why no tax adjustment like cost of debt? 4) WACC=Cost of capital = Percentage of Debt * cost of debt + percentage of stock * cost of stock = Wd*Kd + We* Ke Meaning: For a dollar raised in the capital market from debt holders and stockholders, the cost is WACC (or WACC * 1$ = several cents, and of course, the lower the better but many companies do not have good credits) 
 Solution: Cost
  of debt = rate(10, 50, -(950-40), 1000)*(1-34%) Cost
  of/equity = 2/(40-4)+10% WACC
  = 0.5*cost of debt + 0.5*cost of equity 
 
 https://www.jufinance.com/wacc/ No
  homework for chapter 14   
 Homework
  help videos (chapter 9)     Quiz 4- chapter 9 – (no video prepared) | (both annual and
  semi-annual) WACC calculator (annual coupon bond)      WACC calculator (semi-annual coupon
  bond) (www.jufinance.com/wacc_1)      Wal-Mart
  Inc  (NYSE:WMT) WACC %: 6.23% 
  As of 10/31/2022    As of today (2022-10-31), Walmart's
  weighted average cost of capital is 6.23%. Walmart's ROIC % is 10.48% (calculated using TTM income
  statement data). Walmart generates higher returns on investment than it costs
  the company to raise the capital needed for that investment. It is earning
  excess returns. A firm that expects to continue generating positive excess
  returns on new investments in the future will see its value increase as
  growth increases.https://www.gurufocus.com/term/wacc/WMT/WACC/Walmart%2BInc   
   Amazon.com
  Inc  (NAS:AMZN) WACC %:10.43% 
  As of 10/31/2022  As of today (2022-10-31), Amazon.com's weighted average cost of capital is 10.43%. Amazon.com's ROIC % is 5.84% (calculated using TTM income statement data). Amazon.com generates higher returns on investment than it costs the company to raise the capital needed for that investment. It is earning excess returns. A firm that expects to continue generating positive excess returns on new investments in the future will see its value increase as growth increases. https://www.gurufocus.com/term/wacc/AMZN/WACC-Percentage/Amazon.com%20Inc     
   Apple
  Inc  (NAS:AAPL) WACC %:11.42% 
  As of 10/31/2022    As of today (2022-10-31), Apple's
  weighted average cost of capital is 11.42%. Apple's ROIC % is 33.75% (calculated
  using TTM income statement data). Apple generates higher returns on
  investment than it costs the company to raise the capital needed for that
  investment. It is earning excess returns. A firm that expects to continue
  generating positive excess returns on new investments in the future will see
  its value increase as growth increases..https://www.gurufocus.com/term/wacc/AAPL/WACC/Apple%2Binc Tesla WACC %: 20.31%  As of 10/31/2022 As of today (2022-10-31), Tesla's weighted average cost of capital is 20.31%. Tesla's ROIC % is 27.38% (calculated using TTM income statement data). Tesla earns returns that do not match up to its cost of capital. It will destroy value as it grows. https://www.gurufocus.com/term/wacc/NAS:TSLA/WACC-/Tesla 
 Cost of Capital by
  Sector (US)   Date of Analysis: Data used is as of January 2022 Download as an excel file instead: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/wacc.xls For global datasets: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/data.html 
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| Chapter 13 Risk and Return     Equations (FYI): 1.    Expected return and
  standard deviation Given a probability distribution of
  returns, the expected return can be calculated using the following equation: 
 where 
 https://www.zenwealth.com/businessfinanceonline/RR/ExpectedReturn.html Given an asset's expected return,
  its variance can be calculated using the following equation: 
 where 
 The standard deviation is
  calculated as the positive square root of the variance. 
  https://www.zenwealth.com/businessfinanceonline/RR/MeasuresOfRisk.html Exercise:  Stock A has the following returns for various states of the
  economy:  State of the
  Economy         Probability       Stock
  A's Return Recession              10%                 -30% Below
  Average     20%                 -2% Average                 40%                 10% Above
  Average     20%                 18% Boom                    10%                 40%   Stock A's expected return is?
  Standard deviation? Solution:   Expected return = 10%*(-30%))
  + 20%*(-2%) + 40% *10% + 20%*18% + 10%*40% = 8.2% Standard deviation  = sqrt(10%*(-30%-8.2%)2 + 20%*(-2%-8.2%)2
  +40%*(10%-8.2%)2 + 20%*(18%-8.2%)2 +10%*(40%-8.2%)2)
  = 16.98%  Or,  https://www.jufinance.com/return/ 
 
 W1 and W2 are the percentage of each stock in the
  portfolio. 
   
 
 
 
 
 Exercise: Stocks A and B have the following returns for various states of
  the economy:  State of the
  Economy         Probability       Stock
  A's Return Recession              10%                 -30%                             -10% Below Average     20%                 -2%                                  2% Average                 40%                 10%                                 1% Above
  Average     20%                 18%                                 2% Boom                    10%                 40%                                 -5% Solution: (or use calculator
  at https://www.jufinance.com/return/) Stock 1: Expected return = 10%*(-30%)) +
  20%*(-2%) + 40% *10% + 20%*18% + 10%*40% = 8.2% Standard deviation  = sqrt(10%*(-30%-8.2%)2 + 20%*(-2%-8.2%)2
  +40%*(10%-8.2%)2 + 20%*(18%-8.2%)2 +10%*(40%-8.2%)2)
  = 16.98%  Stock 2: Expected return = 10%*(10%)) +
  20%*(2%) + 40% *1% + 20%*2% + 10%*(-5)% = 1.7% Standard deviation  = sqrt(10%*(10%-1.7%)2 + 20%*(2%-1.7%)2
  +40%*(1%-1.7%)2 + 20%*(2%-1.7%)2 +10%*((-5)%-1.7%)2)
  = 3.41%  Covariance: Covariance =
  10%*(-30%-8.2%)*(10%-1.7%)+20%*(-2%-8.2%)*(2%-1.7%)+40%*(10%-8.2%)*(1%-1.7%)+20%*(18%-8.2%)*(2%-1.7%)+10%*(40%-8.2%)*((-5%)-1.7%)
  = -0.54% Correlation: Correlation = -0.54%/(16.98%* 3.41%) = -0.93 
 ]3..
  Historical returns Holding period return (HPR) =
  (Selling price – Purchasing price + dividend)/ Purchasing price   4.    CAPM (Capital Asset
  Pricing Model) model  ·        What is Beta? Where to find Beta? 
 Beta
  is a measurement of a stock's price fluctuations, which is often called
  volatility, and is used by investors to gauge how quickly a stock's price
  will rise or fall. Because beta is calculated from past returns, it's not
  considered as reliable a tool to forecast rises in stock prices, and it is
  more commonly used by options traders. Beta compares the changes in a
  company's stock returns against the returns of the market as a whole. Online
  brokerages give investors extensive data on a stock's beta value, and some
  free financial news websites also show current beta measurements. ·         What
  Is the Capital Asset Pricing Model?The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
  describes the relationship between systematic risk and expected
  return for assets, particularly stocks. CAPM is widely used throughout
  finance for pricing risky securities and generating expected
  returns for assets given the risk of those assets and cost of capital.  Ri = Rf + βi  *( Rm -
  Rf) ------ CAPM model Ri =
  Expected return of investment Rf = Risk-free
  rate βi = Beta of the investment Rm = Expected
  return of market (Rm - Rf) = Market risk premium Investors expect to be compensated for risk and the time
  value of money. The risk-free rate in the CAPM formula accounts for
  the time value of money. The other components of the CAPM formula account for
  the investor taking on additional risk.  The beta of a potential investment is a
  measure of how much risk the investment will add to a portfolio that looks
  like the market. If a stock is riskier than the market, it will have a beta
  greater than one. If a stock has a beta of less than one, the formula assumes
  it will reduce the risk of a portfolio. A stock’s beta is then multiplied by
  the market risk premium, which is the return expected from the market
  above the risk-free rate. The risk-free rate is then added to the product of
  the stock’s beta and the market risk premium.
  The result should give an investor the required
  return or discount rate they can use to find the value of an
  asset. The goal of the CAPM formula is to evaluate whether a stock is
  fairly valued when its risk and the time value of money are compared to its
  expected return. For example, imagine an investor is
  contemplating a stock worth $100 per share today that pays a 3% annual
  dividend. The stock has a beta compared to the market of 1.3, which means it
  is riskier than a market portfolio. Also, assume that the risk-free rate is
  3% and this investor expects the market to rise in value by 8% per year. The expected return of the stock based on the CAPM formula is
  9.5%. The expected return of the CAPM formula is used to discount the
  expected dividends and capital appreciation of the stock over the expected
  holding period. If the discounted value of those future cash flows is equal
  to $100 then the CAPM formula indicates the stock is fairly valued relative
  to risk. (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capm.asp)   ·       SML – Security Market Line 
   In class
  exercise  Steps: 1.      From finance.yahoo.com, collect stock prices
  of the above firms, in the past five years   Steps: ·       Goto finance.yahoo.com,
  search for the company ·       Click
  on “Historical prices” in the left column on the top and choose monthly stock
  prices.  ·       Change
  the starting date and ending date to “Sept 30th, 2016” and “Sept 30th, 2021”,
  respectively.  ·       Download
  it to Excel ·       Delete
  all inputs, except “adj close”
  – this is the closing price adjusted for dividend.  ·       Merge
  the three sets of data just downloaded  Pick three stocks. Has to be the leading firm
  in three different industries.   ·       For
  example: chose Apple, Dell, and Boeing.    3.      Evaluate the performance of each stock:  ·       Calculate
  the monthly stock returns.  ·       Calculate
  the average return ·       Calculate
  standard deviation as a proxy for risk ·       Calculate
  correlation among the three stocks.  ·        Calculate
  beta. But you need to download S&P500 index values  in the past five years from
  finance.yahoo.com.  ·       Calculate stock returns based on CAPM.  ·       Draw SML  ·      
  Stock Price In Class
  exercise all included (Beta, CAPM, excel file here) ·       Stock
  Price Normal Distribution (FYI)   For example: Amazon’s average return = 1.22%; standard deviation
  = 9.9% 
 Conclusion: The likelihood for Amazon stock’s expected rate of
  return (monthly) to be negative is 45.1%.    HOMEWORK (Due with final by 11/17/2022)   1.            AAA
  firm’s stock has a 0.25 possibility to make 30.00% return, a 0.50 chance to
  make 12% return, and a 0.25 possibility to make -18%
  return.  Calculate expected rate of return (Answer: 9%)    2.            If
  investors anticipate a 7.0% risk-free rate, the market risk premium = 5.0%,
  beta = 1, Find the return. (answer:12%) 3.            AAA
  firm has a portfolio with a value of $200,000 with the following four stocks.
  Calculate the beta of this portfolio ( answer: 0.988)                                  Stock                                               value                                         β                                      A                                              $
  50,000.00                              0.9500                                      B                                                  50,000.00                              0.8000                                      C                                                  50,000.00                              1.0000                                      D                                                 50,000.00                              1.2000                                  Total                                         $200,000.00 4.            A
  portfolio with a value of $40,000,000 has a beta = 1. Risk free rate = 4.25%,
  market risk premium = 6.00%. An additional $60,000,000 will be included in
  the portfolio. After that, the expected return should be 13%. Find the
  average beta of the new stocks to achieve the goal  ( answer:
  1.76) 5. Stock A
  has the following returns for various states of the economy:  State of the
  Economy         Probability       Stock
  A's Return Recession              10%                 -30% Below Average     20%                 -2% Average                 40%                 10% Above
  Average     20%                 18% Boom                    10%                 40%   Stock A's
  expected return is? Standard deviation? (answer:
  expected return = 8.2%, variance=0.02884, standard deviation=16.98%,
  visit  https://www.jufinance.com/return/) 6.       Collectibles
  Corp. has a beta of 2.5 and a standard deviation of returns of 20%. The
  return on the market portfolio is 15% and the risk free rate is 4%. What is
  the risk premium on the market?   7.       An
  investor currently holds the following portfolio:                                        Amount                                       Invested 8,000 shares of
  Stock    A $16,000    Beta = 1.3 15,000 shares of
  Stock  B $48,000    Beta = 1.8 25,000 shares of
  Stock  C $96,000    Beta = 2.2  The beta
  for the portfolio is?   8. Deleted 9. Assume that
  you have $165,000 invested in a stock that is returning 11.50%, $85,000
  invested in a stock that is returning 22.75%, and $235,000 invested in a
  stock that is returning 10.25%. What is the expected return of your portfolio?   10.  If you hold
  a portfolio made up of the following stocks:             Investment
  Value Beta Stock
  A      $8,000           1.5 Stock
  B      $10,000          1.0 Stock
  C       $2,000             .5  What is the
  beta of the portfolio?    11.              You
  own a portfolio consisting of the stocks below. Stock                     Percentage
  of
  portfolio                 Beta 1.                                  20%                                                         1 2.                                  30%                                                         0.5 3.                                 50%                                                          1.6 The risk free
  rate is 3% and market return is 10%. a.                   Calculate
  the portfolio beta. b.                  Calculate
  the expected return of your portfolio.   12.  An
  investor currently holds the following portfolio:                                        Amount                                       Invested 8,000 shares of
  Stock    A $10,000    Beta = 1.5 15,000 shares of
  Stock  B $20,000    Beta = 0.8 25,000 shares of
  Stock  C $20,000    Beta = 1.2 Calculate the
  beta for the portfolio. Homework Help videos  Q1 Q5       Q2 Q3       Q4 Q6 Q7       Q9 TO THE END Quiz 5
  prep video (Quiz 5 Due by the end of week 3 Sunday on 11/13/2022) Part
  I (has three questions from chapter 8)       Part
  II | How much does Amazon worth?” --- FYI only: Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NASDAQ/Company/Amazoncom-Inc/DCF/Present-Value-of-FCFF    Present
  Value of Free Cash Flow to the Firm (FCFF)In
  discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation techniques the value of the stock is
  estimated based upon present value of some measure of cash flow. Free cash
  flow to the firm (FCFF) is generally described as cash flows after direct
  costs and before any payments to capital suppliers. 
   Intrinsic Stock Value (Valuation Summary)Amazon.com
  Inc., free cash flow to the firm (FCFF) forecast   
 1  Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)Amazon.com
  Inc., cost of capital   
 1 USD $ in millions    Equity (fair value) = No. shares
  of common stock outstanding × Current share price    Debt (fair value). See Details » 2 Required rate of return on equity
  is estimated by using CAPM. See Details »    Required rate of return on
  debt. See Details »    Required rate of return on debt
  is after tax.    Estimated (average) effective
  income tax rate WACC
  = 16.17% FCFF Growth Rate (g)FCFF growth rate
  (g) implied by PRAT modelAmazon.com
  Inc., PRAT model   
 2017
  Calculations 2 Interest expense, after tax =
  Interest expense × (1 – EITR) 3 EBIT(1 – EITR) = Net income
  (loss) + Interest expense, after tax 4 RR = [EBIT(1 – EITR) – Interest
  expense (after tax) and dividends] ÷ EBIT(1 – EITR) 5 ROIC = 100 × EBIT(1 – EITR) ÷
  Total capital 6 g = RR × ROIC FCFF growth rate
  (g) forecastAmazon.com
  Inc., H-model   
 where: Calculations g2 = g1 + (g5 – g1) × (2 – 1) ÷ (5 – 1) g3 = g1 + (g5 – g1) × (3 – 1) ÷ (5 – 1) g4 = g1 + (g5 – g1) × (4 – 1) ÷ (5 – 1) | 
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| Cash Flow Statement Answer | calculation for changes | ||
| Cash at the beginning of the
    year | 2060 | ||
| Cash
    from operation | |||
| net income | 3843 | ||
| plus depreciation | 1760 | ||
|   -/+ AR  | -807 | 807 | |
|   -/+ Inventory | -3132 | 3132 | |
|  +/- AP | 1134 | 1134 | |
| net
    change in cash from operation | 2798 | ||
| Cash
    from investment | |||
|  -/+ (NFA+depreciation) | -1680 | 1680 | |
| net
    change in cash from investment | -1680 | ||
| Cash
    from finaning | |||
|  +/- long term debt | 1700 | 1700 | |
|  +/- common stock | 2500 | 2500 | |
|  - dividend | -6375 | 6375 | |
| net
    change in cash from financing | -2175 | ||
| Total
    net change of cash | -1057 | ||
| Cash
    at the end of the year | 1003 | ||
 
 
************ What is Free Cash Flow **************
What is free cash flow (video)
What is free cash
  flow (FCF)? Why is it important?
•       
  FCF is the amount of cash available from operations for
  distribution to all investors (including stockholders and debtholders) after
  making the necessary investments to support operations.
•       
  A company’s value depends on the amount of FCF it can generate.
What are the five
  uses of FCF?
1. Pay interest on debt.
2. Pay back principal on debt.
3. Pay dividends.
4. Buy back stock.
5. Buy nonoperating assets (e.g.,
  marketable securities, investments in other companies, etc.)

What
  are operating current assets?
•       
  Operating current assets are the CA
  needed to support operations.
•       
  Op CA include: cash, inventory,
  receivables.
•       
  Op CA exclude: short-term investments,
  because these are not a part of operations.
What
  are operating current liabilities?
•       
  Operating current liabilities are the
  CL resulting as a normal part of operations.
•       
  Op CL include: accounts payable and
  accruals.
•       
  Op CL exclude: notes payable, because
  this is a source of financing, not a part of operations.

Capital expenditure = increases in NFA +
  depreciation
Or, capital expenditure = increases in GFA
 
Note: All companies, foreign and
  domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and
  other forms electronically through EDGAR.  https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
 
In class exercise
1. Firm AAA has EBIT (operating income) of $3 million, depreciation of $1 million. Firm AAA’s expenditures on fixed assets = $1 million. Its net operating working capital = $0.6 million. Calculate for free cash flow. Imagine that the tax rate =40%.
a. $1.2
b. $1.3
c. $1.4
d. $1.5
FCF = EBIT(1 – T) + Deprec. – (Capex + NOWC)
answer:
EBIT $3
Tax rate 40%
Depreciation $1
Capex + NOWC $1.60
So, FCF = $1.2
2. The following information should be used for the following problems:
2014 2015
Sales $ 740 $ 785
COGS 430 460
Interest 33 35
Dividends 16 17
Depreciation 250 210
Cash 70 75
Accounts receivables 563 502
Current liabilities 390 405
Inventory 662 640
Long term debt 340 410
Net fixed assets 1,680 1,413
Common stock 700 235
Tax rate 35% 35%
• What is the net income for 2015? ($52)
  Ratio Analysis  template
https://www.jufinance.com/ratio
 
 
Finviz.com/screener
  for ratio analysis (https://finviz.com/screener.ashx)
 
Financial ratio analysis  (VIDEO)
 
 
 
 
Price to free cash flow
  (P/FCF) is an valuation metric that compares a company’s per-share market price
  to its free cash flow (FCF). This metric is very similar to the valuation
  metric of price to cash flow but is considered a more exact measure because
  it uses free cash flow, which subtracts capital expenditures (CAPEX) from a
  company’s total operating cash flow, thereby reflecting the actual cash flow
  available to fund non-asset-related growth.
Here’s 10 big named
  companies with huge free cash flows compared to their market cap:
1. JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM):
  Market Cap $333.36B, Free Cash Flow $80.04B – P/FCF 4.32
2. Pfizer Inc (PFE): Market
  Cap $293.45B, Free Cash Flow $31.78B – P/FCF 9.43
3. Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM):
  Market Cap $377.63B, Free Cash Flow $40.07B – P/FCF 9.55
4. Meta Platforms Inc (META):
  Market Cap $430.71B, Free Cash Flow $39.81B – P/FCF 11.28
5. Chevron Corp (CVX):
  Market Cap $289.44B, Free Cash Flow $24.78B – P/FCF 11.46
6. AbbVie Inc (ABBV): Market
  Cap $266.60, Free Cash Flow $22.05B – P/FCF 12.16
7. Broadcom Inc (AVGO):
  Market Cap $206.39B, Free Cash Flow $14.42B – P/FCF 15.17
8. Verizon Communications
  Inc (VZ): Market Cap $188.65B, Free Cash Flow $10.11B – P/FCF 18.56
9. Alphabet Inc (GOOGL):
  Market Cap $1.383T, Free Cash Flow $68.98B – P/FCF 20.49
10. Apple Inc (AAPL): Market
  Cap $2.474T, Free Cash Flow $105.79B – P/FCF 23.76
https://acquirersmultiple.com/2022/07/10-big-named-companies-with-huge-free-cash-flows-ycharts/
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