FIN111 Lecture 9: Week 9 – Share Valuation
Week 9 – Share Valuation
Shares
• Equity instrument giving the holder ownership rights in a firm
• Shareholders have the right to vote for the mangers of the firm and to receive profits
the firm makes
• There is no guarantee that the shares will increase in value (capital gain) or that
dividends will be paid.
Debt vs Equity
Debt (bond holders)
Equity (shareholders)
Interest, Principal (fixed) → interest earned is a
coupon
Dividends (variable)
Interest is tax-deductable
Dividends are not a cost of doing business, not tax
deductable
Legal recourse if interest of principal payments are
missed
No legal recourse if dividends not paid
Excess debt can lead to financial distresses and
bankruptcy
An all-equity financed firm cannot go bankrupt
First claim over assets in the vent of bankruptcy
Residual claim after all others have been repaid
No ownership
Ownership
No voting rights
Voting rights
The Market for Shares
• Equity securities are a compas etifiates of oeship
• Equities are the most visible securities on the financial landscape – more than $1.6
trillion public equity shares outstanding in Aus. at the end of June 2015
Secondary Markets
• Outstanding shares of a company are bought and sold among investors
• Any trade of a security after its primary offering is said to be a secondary market
transaction.
• Investors will pay a higher price for primary securities that have an active secondary
market because of the marketability
• Companies on the secondary market can sell new debt/equity issues at lower
funding costs
• Fo iestos pespetie, it poides marketability at a fair price for shares of
securities they own
• Almost all secondary equity market transactions take place on the Australian
Securities Exchange (ASX)
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• Markets are efficient when current market prices of securities traded reflect all
available information relevant to the security.
Four Types of Secondary Markets (in order of increasing market efficiency):
1. Direct Search
- Buyers/sellers seek each other out directly
- Sellers often rely on word-of-mouth communication to find buyers
- Difficult and costly
2. Broker
- Brokers bring buyers and sellers together to earn a fee, called a commission
- To provide investors with an incentive to hire them, brokers may charge a
commission that is less than the cost of a direct search.
- Aggressively seek out buyers and sellers and try to negotiate
- Increases market efficiency because brokers are in frequent contact with market
participants and are likel to ko hat ostitutes a fai pie
3. Dealer
- Provide this service by holding inventories of securities which they own
- Then buy new securities and sell from inventory to earn a profit
- They have capital risk – difference between bid price and offer price
4. Auction
- Buyers and sellers confront each other directly and bargain over price
Reading the Share Market Readings
• Most financial press, The Australian Financial Review, Wall Street Journal, The New
York Times provide share listings for major share exchanges, such as NYSE and
relevant regional exchanges
• Franking
- f – dividend is 100% franked – company has fully paid tax on the dividend
- p – the dividend is partly franked
- lak spae i the f o p olu idiates the diided is unfranked (no tax)
• Offer basic security market information:
- Price: bid, ask, last, high, low
- Dividend: last dividend, franked, partial
- Return: P/E, dividend yield
• 52 wk high/low → companies highest and lowest price in 52 weeks
• last sale → last price before closing
• + or - → changes
• quote buy/quote sell → highest bid price/highest ask price
• div c per share → annual dividend pay
• div times covered → the number of times the company profits cover latest dividend
• NTA → net tangible asset per share ratio
• Div Yld % → dividend yield. Annual div payout over current share price
• P/E ratio → current price per share over current earnings per share
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Ordinary and Preference Shares
Ordinary Shares
• Ordinary shares represent a basic ownership claim in a company
• Vote on all important matters that affect life of company, such as vote to elect board
of directors, capital budget, or proposed merger or acquisition
• Not guaranteed any dividend payments
• Loest pioit lai o opas assets i eet of isole
• Limited liability → losses limited to the amount of their investment
• Perpetuities in the sense that they have no maturity
• Can be retired only if management buys them in the open market from investors or
if the company is liquidated
Preference Shares
• Preference share owners are given priority over ordinary share owners with respect
to diideds paets ad lais agaist opas assets i eent of insolvency or
liquidation
• Preference share dividends are declared by the board of directors, and if a dividend
is not paid the lack of payment is not legally viewed as a default
• Legally a form of equity and paid by the issuer with after-tax dollars
• Even though preference shares are equity, owners have no voting privileges
• Most preference shares are not true perpetuities because their share contracts often
contain call provisions and can even include sinking fund provisions, which require
management to retire a certain percentage of the share issue annually until the
entire issue is retired.
• Dividends
- egadless of fis earnings
- stated percentage
- Dividend payments are paid with after-ta dollas sujet to taatio
Preference shares: debt or equity?
• Legally, preference shares are equity because they are the ownership of the
company
• Strong case that preference shares are a special type of bond because:
- They confer no voting rights
- Shaeholdes eeie a fied diided, egadless of opas eaigs
- If liquidated, shareholders receive a stated value (usually par) and not a residual
value.
- Preference shares often have edit atigs that ae siila i atue to those
issued to bonds
- Preference shares are some- times convertible into ordinary shares
- Most preference share issues are not true perpetuities
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Document Summary
Interest, principal (fixed) interest earned is a coupon. Dividends are not a cost of doing business, not tax deductable. Legal recourse if interest of principal payments are missed. Excess debt can lead to financial distresses and bankruptcy. First claim over assets in the vent of bankruptcy. Residual claim after all others have been repaid. Voting rights: equity securities are a compa(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:272)e(cid:396)tifi(cid:272)ates of o(cid:449)(cid:374)e(cid:396)ship, equities are the most visible securities on the financial landscape more than . 6 trillion public equity shares outstanding in aus. at the end of june 2015. Secondary markets: outstanding shares of a company are bought and sold among investors, any trade of a security after its primary offering is said to be a secondary market transaction. Securities exchange (asx: markets are efficient when current market prices of securities traded reflect all available information relevant to the security. Four types of secondary markets (in order of increasing market efficiency): direct search.