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Introduction to Valuation 1
Valuing Assets and Liabilities 1
Equity - Discounted Cash Flow 2
Equity - CAPM, Fama French Model and WACC 1
Equity - Dividend Discount Model 1
Equity - Relative Valuation Models 1
IPO Valuation - tips and tricks 1
M&A valuation and Net Assets value 2
Debt Valuation - techniques 1
Preference Share - overview 1
Derivatives - Introduction 1
Conclusion 1
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Introduction To Valuation
x What is Valuation?
x Why is Valuation required?
x Who is allowed to do valuation?
x What do you value?
x Real Life Applications of Valuation
What is Valuation?
Valuation is very subjective - which means there are a lot of assumptions baked into the philosop
Imagine you have a house in South Delhi - in one of the posh areas.
If I saw the house from Bangalore - I would say the house is valued at a minimum of 1 cr.
But if a real estate valuer comes to your house, values your land and assess the neighborhood,
Real estate valuer has a more expert opinion on the value of the house.
But I, in BLR, have a more fabled opinion.
But if I ask you, Mr X - or I ask Ishaan - minimum 5 cr
Why would someone pay 350/- for a movie if the same film is available for free?
But as valuation experts - as people who are going to learn valuation - I am not going to worry ab
What can be put on paper, what can be estimated. What can be evaluated, what can be quantifie
Same product will have multiple valuation techniques - which will give multiple values. What will yo
I will teach you every technique - I will tell you how this can be used!
For eg - tell me what are the different ways you can get a value for the house you stay in (3 diffe
All three values will probably give you the right number. Because - if someone is buyng the house
They will also check with an expert, and the expert will also use the formula you used in point 3.
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x Why is Valuation required?
Price =/ Value
What is the value of a product? Is the Dove soap really worth 50, or is it just intangibles.
How will you find out the value of soap?
Does it kill all germs?
Does it remove odour.
Does it cause any skin reaction
Does it cause dry skin/ oily skin
Are there any chemicals?
Once we check all this, we will see that Dove probably has more value than Cinthol - but does Dove have 3x value?
Investment decision - whenever you buys a share or bond in the market, you need to know whether you are overpaying o
You need to first find out the value of the share or bond you are buying, and then figure out what price it is being sold and
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RELIANCE (REL 346.46 394.56 983.97 485.42 570.44 166.28 544.07 204.73 108.51 85.70
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Anything above this value, REL is overvalued, anything below, REL is undervalued.
Undervalued - it means it is coming cheap - > BUY
Overvalue - it means it is expensive - > DON’T BUY, SELL
Anybody who knows the concepts really well, and who is technically strong.
Technically strong - depends on the kind of product that is being valued!
But there is no licensing required, no proof required that you know something etc.
ANYTHINGGGGGG@@@@@
Weather - there are weather derivatives in the market and these are being valued/ priced!
Shares
Bonds
Derivatives
consumer products
real estate
time valuation!
But what we will cover as part of our lessons in finance is only basic valuation for financial products.
When you are applying for an IPO - is the IPO price undervalued or ovevalued?
When you are buying shares from the market - is it undervalued or overvalued.
Merger arbitrage - whether the target/ acquiring companies are under/ over valued.
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Valuing Assets and Liabilities
Companies that are in service industries - will have very less fixed assets.
Companies that in manufacturing industries - will have greater amount of fixed assets.
Capital
Equity Share Capital 1,200 Will be the present value of Assets - Liab / Divident Growth
Preference Share Capital 950 Will be Divident Growth
Liabilities
Long Term Liabilities
Sundry Creditors > 1 year 15,000 estimated value of how much you can pay / wil pay!
Payables > 1 year 8,000 estimated value of how much you can pay / wil pay!
Debentures/ Bonds Issued 1,200 Fair Value/ Present Value of bonds/ liabilities
Loans Repayable 1,000 estimated value of how much you can pay / wil pay!
Current Assets
Cash 1,000 Price = Value, unless the bank is YES Bank!
Sundry Debtors 50,000 estimated value of how much you expect to receive.
Prepaid Expenses 5,500 estimated value of how much utility you plan to derive from these services.
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x How do we value the different types of assets and liabilities?
Sundry Creditors!
Who? These are people we owe money to! We owe them money because there are different services/ goods/ supplies that
Why? We owe them money because we received services/ products from them! And we need to pay them back!
How? This is the value of the services or products received. Generally - this is the price of the service or product minus any
If we think we wont pay them - only in those cases, the price will not be equal to the value!
Example!
Reliance receives a lot of their upstream steel supplies from TATA Steels.
So who is the creditor? TATA Steels.
This is to be paid back by the end of 2021 - @1000/ kg of steel received minus any trade discounts.
Discounts are at 50/ kg if paid within the calendar year when the actual item was sold!
Price - 1000/ kg
What will be on the BS - 1000/ kg in the BS
What is the value of this item - this is more from a realistic perspective!
If you do not repay within the calendar year, price and value are the same! No discount!
But if you think you will repay within the calendar year, the value is only 950 of amounts payable!
Payables
Who? They are generally the rent payable guys, salary payable employees, wages payables, electricity payable etc.
Why? Because we received a good or service from them?
How? Rent payable is based on the invoice raised! So what you see as price or in the Balance Sheet will be the amount of
This is usually raised in advance!
For ex - you occupy a property on Jan 1, 2021 - you will have to pay them rent in advance and that will be called rent paid
But the concept we are looking at is rent payable! Which is after the invoice is raised! This is the actual amount of payable
This is the value you will see on the Balance Sheet or as Price in our eg.
So what is the value? The value is actually the utility that you derive from it.
So for eg - they will raise an invoice for 30 days, but if you expect to vacate in 15 days - you will only derive a value or get a
Therefore - rent payable in BS =/= the value of rent utility.
Example Reliance is occupying Mr Shah's property for 2L/ year, Mr Shah has raised the invoice for the same! Reliance expects to ut
What is the amount you will see for the below?
Price? 2L
Balance Sheet? 2L
Value? 1.5 L
What? These are basically items that we purchased which have use for more than 1 year, therefore we do not charge the e
We charge it over the life of the asset!
Why? This is the cost of the asset approtioned over the life!
How? Lot of techniques, SLM, WDV!
Examples
Reliance purchased a heavy duty machinery for manufacturing boxes, at 10L, 3 years ago. The expected life of the machin
Reliance uses SLM for depreciating.
This machinery is used to make boxes that get Reliance a profit of 3/ box. Every machinery is used to make 1000 boxes pe
Why are we worried about calculating value and price for something?
The answer is that if you have to sell this machinery , and replace with something new, what you are letting go is not just a
You are letting go the potential to earn 3000/ year!
Examples
Haldirams has a copyright on its brand name worth 10L.
If Haldirams wants to sell the brand to Bikanerwala - it will sell it for 10C!
Amount For whom will this be relevant?
Price? 10L For anybody who is trying to understand a minimum value to pay for Haldirams brand name!
B/S? 10L For Haldirams' shareholdrs.
Value? 10C Is the max value anyone will pay if they are trying to buy Haldirams' brand name!
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Discounted Cash Flows
Question! If you had the option of receiving 1L rupees today vs receiving 10K rupees every month for the n
Some people will say 1L today, why? A bird in hand is better than two in the bush - it basically me
Why?
Because you might not be there in the future, the person who has to pay you might not be there
Some people will say 10k per month is better. Why? Because it is more planned - what if I get 1L
Better to receive it in installments.
If you receive 1L today, you can invest the 1L and after 10 months you will get how much? Assum
1.1L.
Or, you might spend the 1L, in which case you are left with nothing!
Question You want to go to the supermarket and buy Lays chips for 20/-.
The supermarket guy tell you, pay me 40 Rupees today, take one lays chips now……come back
Which is the better option? Better option is to shut up and leave the shop!
Purchasing Power!
Purchasing power is the ability to buy something today by spending cash. This will change over ti
Option AOption B
2021 20 20
2022 20 22
2023 20 24.2
2024 20 26.62
2025 20 29.282
2026 20 32.2102
2027 20 35.43122
2028 20 38.97434
2029 20 42.87177
2030 20 47.15895
2031 20 51.87484
2032 20 57.06233
2033 20 62.76856
2034 20 69.04542
2035 20 75.94996
2036 20 83.54496
2037 20 91.89945
2038 20 101.0894
2039 20 111.1983
2040 20 122.3181
Option B is the correct answer. Why? The purchasing power of any commodity, or the value of mo
For example - you want to buy a mobile phone in 1996! What were the brands available? Nokia! Alcatel! Onl
So if you had a budget, you might have to spend more because whatever price Nokia asks for you need to p
But today, if you look at mobile phones - you can get a good phone for 1,000 or 1L
How many people had cars in 2000? How many people had cars in 1950? How many people have
So why are we talking about all this? How is this even relevant? Very simple!
If I am valuing soemthing, I need to know how much it is valued at today!!!
Not 10 years down the line.
For eg - I will pay 9000 when I buy the bond. The issuer will not pay me any interest, but will repay
What does it mean? It means there is an interest component of 1000 in the bond!
2021 I buy a zero coupon bond for 95,000 (5 year bond, no interest, repayable at par!)
2022 No interest
2023 No interest
2024 No interest
2025 No interest
2026 No interest, but principal is repaid at 1,00,000
Your inherent interest amount is 1L minus 95K that you paid initially, which is 5K rupees.
But what do I want to do? I am sitting in 2021, hoping to receive 1L in 2026. How do I know the va
What do we do?
We bring the value from 2026 to 2021 using a certain % rate.
After doing this, if you notice that the value of 1L today is 98K, but you have to only pay 95K to b
Yes, you will buy it!
Why, you are only paying 95K for a bond that is worth 1L (98K).
Which is good! You are paying less for something that has more value!
Therefore, buy! This is basic common sense!
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Future Value of Money - Basics
What does future value of money mean? It means we are going to try and understand how to predict the future value of cash/ money that we have today!
If I have 10K today, what is the value in real terms of this 10K in 10 years time, 2030?
Question Will you need more money 10 years down the line, or less money to have equivalent of 10,000 rupees today.
I can buy a good refrigerator today with 10K.
If I need to buy a good refrigerator in 2030, will I need more than 10K, or less than 10K?
The answer is I will need more than 10K to buy a good refrigerator in 2030,
Don’t believe me?
How much did you need to buy a car in 1960? Around 1,000 rupees!
How much do you need to buy a car in 2020? You need atleast 5L.
Therefore, as time goes on, you will need more amount of money to buy the same things.
How do you know how much more money!
In order to understand how much more money is required to match the 10K we have today, we make use of a rate!
You can call it inflation, you can call it government interest (bond rates) etc.
We will discuss this more closely later!
FV = PV x (1 + Rate)^T
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10,000 11,000 12,100 13,310 14,641 16,105 17,716 19,487 21,436 23,579 25,937
Assumption: the rate we are looking at is 10%
This means that I need to have 25,937 at the end of 10 years in order to purchase the same things that I am purchasing today for 10,000 Rupees!
Tell me what is the expected value of your current bank balance in 8 years if you invest this in the said deposit.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
75,000 84,000 94,080 105,370 118,014 132,176 148,037 165,801 185,697
If you deposit 75,000 today, at the end of 8 years you would have 185,697
167,734,966,540,793,000,0
You need to find out which is the better option for investing - where is your return higher?
What is the risk of option A - the risk is losing return of 29,264 Rupees
Why? Because you went for a safer instrument!
What is the risk of Option B? Th risk is that you will lose 53,605 Rupees
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Present Value of Money
Present value of money basically says, how much money you might get in the future is irrelevant!
How much that is worth today is what is most relevant!
Assume you will get 10,000 rupees today, you are trying to understand whether that is a good idea, or getting 1L after 25 years is a good idea.
How will you go about it?
Assume the current rate of interest in the market is 10%.
You have two options - Option A - get 10K today! And Option B - get 1L after 25 years.
Using the future value concept we saw, can we arrive at a decision?
Imagine, you invest 10K today, and you want to know how much it will be valued at after 25 years.
If that value is > 1L , then go with 10K today. Else. Choose 1L after 25 years.
Today, I am 25 years old and I can get 10K. And I can invest this 10K in the bank, and when I am 50, I will be able to withdraw this amount. How much is that amount?
Is that amount greater than, equal to or less than 1L?
If it greater than 1L, then go for 10K today!
If 1L is greater than that amount, choose 1L after 25 years.
If both are equal, you are indifferent. You don’t have an opinion, anything is OK!
We will try growing this 10K for 25 years by investing it in a bank - P * (1 + R) ^ T = 108,347
In this concept, what we did was, we took the 10K to a future period and compared with a future cash flow (1L) and decided which is better!
The other option is to bring the future cash flow (1L] to today's preiod and compare it to what we will get today!
A B
2021 2045
10K 1L
A B
2021 2045
10K 1L
FV = P * (1 + R ) ^T
1L = P * (1.1)^25
1L = P
1.1^25
FV = P
(1 + R)^T
100000
1.1^25
9,230
10,000
Question Mr X wants to invest in a land that he will pay 10L to buy today, and he will get 1.5 CR in 25 years time! Alternatively, Mr X can deposit that money in a savings accou
annually!
Interest from savings accounts are tax exempt in the country where Mr X resides, but real estate gains (capital gains) are taxable at 20%.
Find out which investment option is better - Option A: Land or Option B: Savings Account
Answer Option A What is the value of 1.5C in today's terms -> FV = 15000000 MINUS Tax= 2,842,583 Rupees in today's terms!
(1 + R) ^ T 1.06^25
Cost = 1,000,000
Profits = 1,842,583
Option B What is the value of 10 L today if you invest it in a 6% interest rate account>? = 10 (1 + R) ^ 25
(1 + R) ^ 25
Profits = 1,000,000
Option A is the better investment! Why? It has a better FV today even though there is taxation!
To make this more intuitive, you are growing 10L by greater than 6% under option A, and bringing it back at 6%.
growing = compounding
bringing it back = discounting
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Complexities in Time Value of Money.
Time - for compounding is basically the number of times you compound dueing the period you compound for!
In our examples, we assumed that we compounded only once a year!
But what if we compount monthly?
What if we compound daily?
The question might give you a yearly rate of interest, and ask you to compound weekly. You need to make sure to convert the yearly
correct answer!
Both your measures should be in the same denomination!
Question Mr X is an American who wants to invest in India. He wants to determine the correct rate to be considered for making his investments.
he is being told that these investments can be made in multiple rates, that is there are different comparebles present in the market. H
which one he is more comfortable to use for his investing purposes.
If you are given the nominal rate - always use the nominal rate in your answers.
So how is the nominal rate being arrived at? Simple Interest Rate + Inflation = 14%
Why don’t we use the opportunity cost? Because Mr X is American, the opportunity cost is the cost of investing in his own country - w
Therefore, opportunity costs don’t matter!
Question Mr X understands that the formula for compounding changes when you compound multiple times in the same year!
Mr X wants to compound weekly, what will T be for Mr X in his formula?
Assume his period of investment is one year!
T =n xt
small t = number of years.
n = number of times you are compounding
T = 54 x 1 = 54
Question Mr X has decided to go ahead with his investment in India, and invests 150,000 in a mutual fund that promises a return of 10% per ye
You need to find out how much will Mr X earn if he stays invested for 3 years.
P = 150K
R = 10% = 10/12 = 0.8333333333
T = n x t = 12 x 3 = 36 36
FV = P x (1 + R) ^ T
= 150K x (1 + 0.0083)^ 36
202,203
What if Mr X did not compound this monthly, but went for a yearly compounding, will the answer remain the same?
P = 150K
R = 10
T=3
FV = P x (1 + R) ^ T
= 150K x (1 + 1)^ 3
199,650
Therefore, if you are someone investing in the markets, the more you compound, the better it is for you!
Question Assume after 3 years, Mr X's prediction is accurate. He wants to understand, how much should he have invested in order to make 3L
the question is how much more should he have invested to make this amount - assume same monthly compounding and 3 year tenur
FV = 300K
R = 10% = 10/12 = 0.8333333333
T = n x t = 12 x 3 = 36 36
FV = P x (1 + R) ^ T
3L = P x (1 + 0.0083)^ 36
P = 300K/1.0083^36 222,787
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Discounted Cash Flow
So when you try to make an investment and take a decision based on that, you have to understand how much this investment will be valued at or will be worth in today's terms.
So we need to see how much a particular investment will fetch us in today's terms.
The present value = which is what we need, because our investment will be repaid over multiple years. So you need to pull all your future benefits to todays date.
Let us look at an example - REL wants to purchase a machinery that will give it a benefit of 50K for 10 years.
Cost of the machinery is 3L.
Is it a good purchase or a bad purchase?
Advantages
Easy to understand
Easy to calculate
Will give you an approximation really quick.
Disadvantage
Formula for discounted cashflows = All investments minus all benefits brought to the present.
It means you need to find out the present value for all the investments and benefits that are there out in the world
If the present value of benefits > present vaue of investments -> go for the investment, it is good.
If the present value of benefits < present value of investment -> don’t go for the investment, it is bad!
Question You are asked to invest 3L in a machinery, which will give you a benefit of 50K per year for 10 years, determine if this is a good investment or not!
Discount rate - 10%
Question You are asked to invest 6L in a machinery, which will give you a benefit of 50K for 20 years., determine if this is a good investment or not!
Discount rate - 10%
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Investment -600,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Benefits 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
Discounting 1 0.9091 0.8264 0.7513 0.6830 0.6209 0.5645 0.5132 0.4665 0.4241 0.3855 0.3505 0.3186 0.2897 0.2633 0.2394 0.2176 0.1978 0.1799 0.1635 0.1486
Discounted Numbers -600,000 45,455 41,322 37,566 34,151 31,046 28,224 25,658 23,325 21,205 19,277 17,525 15,932 14,483 13,167 11,970 10,881 9,892 8,993 8,175 7,432 -174,322
Why is my loss so big when I doubled investments, but at the same time, I doubled my benefits period?
The answer is simple - the more you invest in the beginning, the more you will have to get as benefit within the same period of the initial investment.
But if you keep the benefit amount as the same, and only increase your duration of getting the benefit, it is riskier.
Original
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Investment -300,000 - - - - - - - - - -
Benefits 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
Discounting 1 0.9091 0.8264 0.7513 0.6830 0.6209 0.5645 0.5132 0.4665 0.4241 0.3855
Discounted Numbers -300,000 45,455 41,322 37,566 34,151 31,046 28,224 25,658 23,325 21,205 19,277 7,228
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Investment -600,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Benefits 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
Discounting 1 0.9091 0.8264 0.7513 0.6830 0.6209 0.5645 0.5132 0.4665 0.4241 0.3855 0.3505 0.3186 0.2897 0.2633 0.2394 0.2176 0.1978 0.1799 0.1635 0.1486
Discounted Numbers -600,000 45,455 41,322 37,566 34,151 31,046 28,224 25,658 23,325 21,205 19,277 17,525 15,932 14,483 13,167 11,970 10,881 9,892 8,993 8,175 7,432
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Investment -600,000 - - - - - - - - - -
Benefits 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
Discounting 1 0.9091 0.8264 0.7513 0.6830 0.6209 0.5645 0.5132 0.4665 0.4241 0.3855
Discounted Numbers -600,000 90,909 82,645 75,131 68,301 62,092 56,447 51,316 46,651 42,410 38,554 14,457
My profit is doubling!
This means that if the duration of your investment is the same, and you only double the investment amount and benefits you will get from it, your profits today are also double!
The key here is to keep your duration to only 10 years!
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Question A firm gets the below cash flows over the next 10 years. Analyse and understand where the firm is profitable or not.
Assume a cost of capital of 8%, and analyse whether the firm is profitable or not.
Discount at Cost of Capital
Answer 1 Today (2021) -2,500,000 1 -2,500,000
2 2022 500,000 0.9259259259 462,963
3 2023 500,000 0.8573388203 428,669
4 2024 500,000 0.793832241 396,916
5 2025 500,000 0.7350298528 367,515
6 2026 -350,000 0.680583197 -238,204
7 2027 200,000 0.6301696269 126,034
8 2028 200,000 0.5834903953 116,698
9 2029 200,000 0.5402688845 108,054
10 2030 200,000 0.5002489671 100,050
-631,305
Since the total value for the firm is in negatives, the firm is actually losing money! Therefore, this is not a good investm
So for example, Mr Ambani can choose to open a hotel in two places - either in Chennai, which is more of a temple tourism city, or in Mumbai, which is more
Based on that, you need to analyze which option is the better option, and which one he needs to go with
So let us look at the cost - benefit analysis for the two options!
Chennai Mumbai
Investment 6,000,000 9,000,000
Benefits for the next 25 years 500,000 750,000
Maintenance costs for the hotel/ yr 125,000 200,000
Salary Costs/ yr 90,000 100,000
Rent cost 65,000 75,000
For both the options, Mr Ambani has to take a loan from Citibank @ 11% rate of interest. Find out which option is more profitable, and analyze whyyyy this o
Both projects are not profitable, but if you have to choose one of these projects, choose the one with the least loss - C
Analysis
1 Why is our project for Mumbai profitable without discounting, but not profitable after discounting?
2 At what discount rate will Mumbai break even?
3 Is there an issue with our assumptions or our calculations? Are we doing something wrong?
Let us assume 10% inflation
As long as our inflation< discount rate - we will be making losses. If inflation > discount rate, we will make profits.
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CAPM, FF and WACC
It gives you a relationship between the expected price of the equity we have, the risk free rate, BE
Expected Price of the equity is a function of risk free rate, beta and risk premium.
RF = given in the question, this will be the minimum rate fixed by the Central Bank of the country.
B = sensitivity of the security to the market
If the security moves by 1 Re for every 1 Re move of the general market (index), then we say B =
Market = the general stock market. A good substitute / indicator is an index in the market.
RP = MRP or Market Risk Primuum or RP = M Return minus RF Return
RFR = 6%
SENSEX = 9%
For very 1% move in SENSEX, INFY moves by 1.5%
What is INFY's BETA? 1.5/1 = 1.5
ER = RFR + B (RP)
ER = 6 + 1.5(9-6)
ER = 6 + 1.5*3
ER = 6 + 4.5
ER = 10.5%
It means if you buy INFY today, you should be expecting a return of 10.5% annualized.
If INFY adheres to CAPM - understand what its price one year down the line could be - 350 + 10.5
386.75
Question Assume you are now valuing BOB - and you have to find out the expected return for this stock.
Same Risk Free Rate and Sensex performance as the last question. But BOB falls by 1% for eve
RFR 6%
RP 3%
Beta -1 It has something called as a perferct negative correlation with the market
Which means everytime the market moves in a particular direction, the stock w
it moves in the opposite direction of the market! Therefore, if you expect a sto
market will go down!
ER 3 3%
Now in the next year, the stock is still in our portfolio, but this time, the market has crashed by 10%
RP -16
ER 22 22%
The expected return from stocks is basically how much a shareholder will expect from the equity f
There is an obligation from the company to deliver this to the shareholder (this is according to the
Technically, this CAPM ER that we calculated is a cost to the company - and is called the cost of r
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CAPM has a fancy terminology asociated in it called the Beta!
Positive Beta - means the stock is rising when the market rises, and the stock is falling when the ma
Negative Beta - means that the stock is going in the opposite direction to the market.
Zero Beta? It means that the stock never moves irrespective of what happens in the market.
How is Beta Calculated = Covariance between the stock and the market
Variance of the Market
MARKET = A representation of the market - index, SENSEX, NIFTY, NASDAQ, NIKKEI, DAX, FTSE e
A concept - Beta!
There are two types of risk for every stock! The general risks of the market, and the specific stock r
General Risks - crude oil prices, tension in the Middle East, electric vehicles, natural resource depl
Specific Risks - key person risks, financial statemtn risks, reputation risks. Etc
By diversification.
By following the above portfolio - you have gotten rid of all systematic risks.
It is the duty of all investors to get rid of all systematic risks in their portfolio!
Higher the risk, higher the return!
Higher the unsystematic risk, higher the return! You will not get any reward for holding on to system
The only risk you will be exposed to is unsystematic risk!
And it is only basis this unsystematic risk that we will actually find out expected return.
Therefore, Beta is also called the unsystematic risk of a company!
Leverage!
Two or more companies will have different amounts of debt and therefore will have different leverag
Beta = Asset Beta
Debt beta
You might not have the equity beta for your company!
So you might have to use a comparible equity beta number for your analysis
In order to get your company's equity beta from a comparible equity beta,
1 Unlever the comparible equity beta, so you are left with the asset beta for the
2 We know that the asset beta for the comparible = asset beta for our company
3 Re-level the asset beta using our debt numbers
4 so now you have the equity beta for our company!
Suppose I am trying to find out the Eq Beta for INFY. There is no Eq Beta for INFY available in the m
the Eq B for INFY from WIPRO's Eq B.
1 Unlever Wipro's EQ B, so you are left with the A Beta for Wipro.
2 Now you have WIPRO A Beta = INFY A Beta
3 Re lever INFY's A Beta , so now you have INFY's DEBT Component added
4 INFY's Eq B
You can next use this Eq B from INFY into our INFY's CAPM calculation.
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What is the the WACC or Weighted Avg Cost of Capital?
What are the other forms of capital? We just saw equity, can you think of how else capital can be raised?
What do you mean by capital, it is nothing but the raising of money (either with a promise of payment or with no promise
promise of participation.
Participation
Yes No
Promis
ed Yes Prefence Share Debt
Return No Equities unsecured creditor
Debt
Debt is basically everything that involves a fixed repayment and no participation!
1 Bonds
2 Debentures
3 Loans
These are all having an inherent cost - what is the cost? The cost of interest payment!
So you have to pay interest for this debt! That is the cost for the company!
But there is a small benefit that the company gets because of this debt!
What is this benefit? Tax benefits!
Tax - is generally calculated on your net profits after deducting all expenses …. More the expenses, less the net profits a
Interest expenses are included within the scope of expenses for reducing your tax burder.
Therefore, the actual cost of debt =/= I
Actual Cost of Debt = I (1 - T)
Lets assume you have a loan of 1L, with interest payments at 10% (10k/ year). The company has a profit before interes
Calculate the interest that you will pay, the net profit, the net tax liability and the cost of debt.
8%
They get a fixed rate of Income - the only difference between a bondholder and a preference shareholder is that…..
Bondholders get interest, which is tax deductible.
Preference shareholders get dividends, which are not tax deductible.
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Application of the cost of capital!
WACC will tell you how much cost the capital has - and this will determine how much return you must get at a m
Because -
It is the capital you raised that is basically being deployed in a lot of projects!
Return from the project you are using the capital for > cost of the capital
Suppose I take a loan for 5% and use it to start a business. My minimum return from the business must be 5%.
WACC = Prop. Of Eq x Cost of Eq + Prop of Debt x Cost of Debt + Prop of Pref x Cost of Pref
Amount Cost Weights WACC
Example Equity 100,000 9% 0.33 3.00%
Pref 100,000 5% 0.33 1.67%
Debt 100,000 6% 0.33 2.00%
Total Cap 300,000 6.67%
Question ABC Industries need to raise 10L of capital in order to invest in a project that will give them a return of 8%.
ABC raises 5L via equities, through a follow-on public offer, assume ABS has a sensitivity of 1.25 to the market
ABC raises 3L via debt, promising to pay 6% interest. Assume tax rate for ABC is 20%.
ABS raises 2L via preference shares paying the same 6%.
Find out the WACC for ABC, and if the project is a good proposal or not!
Cost Amounts Weights WACC New Weights
Answer Cost of Eq = RFR + B x (MR - RFR) = 9 500,000 0.50 4.50
Cost of Debt = D x (1 - T) = 4.8 300,000 0.30 1.44 0.60 2.88
Cost of PS = Dividends Rate = 6 200,000 0.20 1.20 0.40 2.40
1,000,000 7.14 5.28
WACC 7.14
We need to compare WACC to return on the project, and then determine if profitable or not!
Project 8
WACC 7.14
You remember? We spoke about a discount rate for discounted cash flows?
The best discount rate you can use for your DCF calc is the WACC!
But be selective when you use the WACC - if the company is using only equities to fund a project, do not use th
For example, in our previous question, assume the company wanted only 5L for the project and they use only t
Same return 8%
WACC 7.14
It is wrong!
Because the debt and PS were not used to fund the project…. You have to use only the comp
WACC 9
We will say that the project is not profitable!
Assume the project is only giving a return of 7%, and only needs 5L for funding it. The company decides to fun
Determine if the project is profitable or not!
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Fama French Model
Two blokes - Fama and French discovered this model, and this is basically and asset pricing model. We saw another asse
If the red portion of your formula is +, it means Market is doing better than RFR, and we have +ve correlation to the marke
OR
It means the market is doing badly, that is MR < RFR, and we have negative correlation to the market.
If the green portion of your formula is +, it means small cap stocks are doing better than large cap stocks, and you have a
OR
it means SC stocks are doing worse than LC stocks, SC<LC, but you have a negative correlation to small cap stocks.
If the brown portion of your formula is +, it means value stocks are doing better than growth stocks, and you have a +ve co
OR
It means value stocks are doing worse than growth stocks, VS< GS and you have a negative correlation to value stocks.
Question XR is a long only investor who wants to position a trade in the NIFTY based on NIFTY returns. XR expects NIFTY to crash i
using a FF model.
Question ABC Incorporated are looking to invest in the stock market, and are particularly focussed only small cap stocks. Their inde
Even though they expect the index to go up vs the NIFTY 50, which is the large cap index, they want a position in individua
What would you advise?
Answer Inside the bracket, the index is moving up vs the large cap index, which means there is a +ve effect. Therefore, it makes se
If you need a positive beta, you should be heavily correlated to the small cap stocks.
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Dividend Discount Model
This model basically arrives at the value of equity by using the discounted cash flow model.
Discounted cash flow - basically said - the value of anything that you own today, is the present valu
So, the present value of the cash flows that you get from a particular stock is called the intrinsic val
Using the dividend discount model - we will arrive at the instrinsic value, and then decide whether to
Under the discounted cash flow model - the main cash flow for equities -> dividend!
We discount the dividends to the present value to arrive at the Intrinsic value!
Ideally, what you should be having as denominator should be the discount rate for the period!
Dividend 1 = X
1.1^1
Dividend 2 = X
1.1^2
This is a simple idea, or a simple expression, but what if the rate increases over time?
It means your present value should also be higher!
So, you will reduce the growth from the rate of discounting.
Example We own stocks of INFY - and expect to get 1000/- per year for the rest of our life. Our expectation (
= 1000
0.1
= 10,000
= 1000
.1-.02
= 12,500
Major assumptions -
1 Growth rate can never be more than discount rate!
= 1000
10% - 15%
= -20,000
Question You have shares of REL currently trading at 15000/ share. You expect REL to give out a dividend o
The cost of equity for REL is determined to be 13%.
Find out the instrinsic value of REL shares, and if REL is a buy/ sell according to Gordon Growth M
= 1450
13% - 3%
= 14500
The intrinsic value of one share in REL is 14,500 while the MV is 15,000! What does this mean? Th
1 One Period Model tells you, you will receive dividends for one period alone and then you
V = 2000 + 4500
1.1^1 1.1^1
= 1818.181 + 4090.909
= 5,909
Assume the share is selling in the market for 5000 - will you buy or not? BUY!
2 Multiperiod model - these are genetally more complicated to calculate, since the
But realistically, multi period models are the most practical way of doing DD calc
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Relative Valuation Models
The models we saw till now - CAPM, FAMA FRENCH and Dividend Discount are all standalone models!
When we say these are standalone models, what we mean is that these models only look at the fundamen
CAPM - Beta!
Fama French, 3 Betas!
Dividend Discount - Dividends, and the discount rates!
All of the above pertain ONLY to the stock that we are valuing!
But that changes, when we see something called as Relative Value Models!
Single Valuation Models - fundamentals of the stocks vs the price of the stock!
Relative Value Models - fundamentals of the stocks vs other stocks in our portfolio!
When I say other stocks in the portfolio, I mean other stocks in the industry, the industry avg, etc.
1 Equity Multiple!
2 Enterprise Multiples, or Enterprise Value Multiples!
Equity Multiples!
Minority Interest - if you own less than a particular % of shares, you don’t really control the company!
When you don’t control the company, you must value the shares as if you want to sell them at any time.
Through the PE ratio, we are trying to understand what the Price of the Share is, for every rupe
If EPS is 5, MP = 50
If EPS is 7, MP = 70
Ideally, for a PE ratio, we compare the Market Price of the equity and earnings, with the competitors and i
Small exercise…
PE Industry Avg is EPS MP
INFY 31.28 43.65 1,365
WIPRO 22.54 33.3 18.53 418
32.14 14 450
That means, on an average, all tech stocks have a PE of 33.3.
If you use relative valuation, your INFY is correctly valued, while WIPRO is undervalued
If PE < Sector avg, it means your market price can increase till it hits the sector avg.
WIPRO can go up to 600 without becoming overvalued. In other words, if I have to reword this, W
For any relative valuation, there are two components - numerator and the denominator
We assumed that the denominator would be the same over time. Is this the case?
Technically, the denominator is OLD!
BE VERY VERY VERY CAREFUL, your analysis can go for a toss if denominator changes.
SELL INFY
BUY WIPRO
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Dividend Yield
This ratio is majorly useful for investors who are interested in dividends!
A company with high dividends necessarily does not mean it has good profits, or lets say good fu
Once a company gets a net profit - they have two options, they can either
1 give this proft back to the shareholders - dividend
2 reinvest this profit back into the company - no dividend.
Advantage of dividend - it will attract shareholders who want steady stream of income!
Disadvantage - will not have any reinvestment opportunities. Excess profits due to new products,
Advantage of reinvestment - TESLA, APPL etc. which reinvest and don’t pay a dividend - better p
Disadvantage - not attractive to people who want a steady stream of income!
= 1.5 = 50%
3
DY
INFY 1.60%
Sector 1.98%
Market Price Share = Market Price that the share is trending on that particular d
Assume a company is able to sell 10 Rs per share. Then technically, the value of the sh
But the share is selling for 45Rs, which means for every rupee of sale, the market is exp
Enterprise Value = Total Market Value of Shares + Market Value of Debt - Cash
Enterprise Value = It should you how much EV is generated per rupee of revenue/ sale
Revenue
Enterprise Value = Before considering Interest, Tax, Dep, Amortization and (rental).
EBITDA/R
1 If you are confused between how much to invest and which companies to invest in, then
2 M&A - we will see this in more details later, for M&A strategies.
3 Compare divisions!
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IPO Valuation
What is an IPO?
Initial Public Offer!
It is called an initial public offer - which means this is mainly for companies which have not gone p
If a company is already public, and is raising extra money by issuing shares, it is not called an IPO
It is called an FPO, or Follow On Public Offer, or Further Public Offer.
These companies have to approach SEBI and stock exchanges for launching their IPO.
Companies have to fulfil basic requirements - minimum profits, good reputation, etc.
If SEBI is happy that basic requirements are fulfilled, they will OK the IPO.
Imagine you started up, you put 10K of your own money, and want to make your business huge.
Its been 10 years, the 10K has now become 1 cr. Your company has become famous, and you wa
How do you make the 1cr worth company = 1 cr in your bank?
Monetization!
Exit Strategy for investors - basically, how do you get out of the investment.
Selling the shares to the public - how do you sell shares? Through an IPO.
A. Exit Strategy
B. Grow the business further - how?
You will raise extra cash by IPO, and use that cash to expand the business.
When companies raise cash through an IPO, they will need to specify the price at which the IPO s
This price is usually a band, that is, there is a minimum to max price and the epople can quote wh
Investors can quote any value between 250 and 350 for the IPO. Companies will generally give p
How is this band arrived at?
It is arrived at by a process of valuation - by merchant bankers.
If the valuation/ price for IPO is too high, nobody will buy - IPO will become a failure.
If the valuation/ price for IPO is too low, then company will lose money - this is called an underpric
Minimum subscription - the minimum amount of shares that will have to be subscribed for the IPO
In India, minimum subscription is 90%.
If minimum subscription is not achieved, IPO is a failure.
Under allotment, the company will try to make maximum profits possible.
So they will allot to the highest bidders first, then to the next highest etc.
Question A company wants to issue 10K shares at 800 - 1000 bandwidth. Min sub = 90%. If you owned the
Scenario 1
Shares Amount
8000 950
500 975
1000 775
But how many were received within the bad? That is only accepted subscriptions.
8500 within the bandwidth
9000 Minimum subscription
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Scenario 2
ABC Ltd wants to issue 2000 shares to the public at 10000-12000 price!
Shares Value
800 12000 800
600 11850 600
800 11500
2200 1400
Out of the 800 shares that were subscribed to at 11,500 - I need to choose 600 shares.
The method of choosing is called as pro rating - or lottery.
Lottery' system is random, you will randomly choose 600 share application.
But, pro rating is a little more scientific!
What is underwriting?
The worst thing that can happen to a company is if they fall below minimum subscription in an IPO.
So what they do is they get into an agreement with the merchant bankers to ask them to subscribe to their IP
This is only if they fall below minimum subscription!
For example, if a company XYZ is going for an IPO and has 50,000 it wants to sell!
How much is the minimum subscription amount? 45000
Assume, the company gets only 42000 applications, and has fallen below minimum subscription!
Now - it needs the merchant bankers help!
The merchant banker will help by subscribing to just enough shares so it hits minimum subscription!
How many shares?
Scenario 3
UYT is a IPO hopeful company! They are currently looking to sell 10000 shares in the market at 50-75 rupee
They are not very confident about getting minimum subscription. So they appoint an underwriter to underwri
Based on the below, how many shares does the underwrites have to buy?
Shares Value
5000 72
2500 69
2000 65
1000 48
10500
Therefore, when it comes to IPO valuation, striking the right balance is extremely important!
What is a merger?
One, is obviously for better branding, better looking companies, more market share.
A 15%
B 45%
AB 60%
Types of mergers!
Type 1
A Ind
B Ind AB Merged
Type 2
A Ind
B Ind A
Kinds of Mergers
2 Congeneric - Is a product extention. Two companies with the same market but different
Eg - Walmart and Flipkart
3 Market Extention - where two companies sell the same products but in different markets
Eg - banks merge - to form a single bank!
4 Horizontal merget - this is between companies that sell products in the same industry! C
Eg - Vodafone and Idea.
5 vertical Merger - is when you buy out/ merge with companies in the same supply chain!
Eg - if a restaurant buys out its raw material suppliers.
Example!
Anheuser-Bush Inbev
Bud Light - Budweiser, etc - are all produced by Anheuser Bush Inev!
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Valuation Methodologies for Mergers!
Basically, during a merger, one company buys another. How? By providing shares of the company to the shareholders o
A Buys B
A
When A buys B,
A Acquiring Company
B Acquired Company
A will have its own shareholders - B will have its own shareholders -
A1 B1
A2 B2
A3 B3
A4 B4
A5 B5
YOU have to give shareholders of B adequate compensation to convince them to sell the company to A.
Cost of a merger = How much is paid to the sharehodlers of the acquired company (B's sharehold
Benefit of a merger?
= Synergy that is created!
3 If Jaguar and LR managed to expand luxury driving to the SUV and sedan space!
1 Cash payment!
2 Equity shares of the acquiring company!
How do you find out how much to pay? = the value of the company you are buying!
Net Asset Value (NAV) of a company = Fair Value of Assets minus Fair Value of Liabilities
Net Asset Value / Share = Net Asset Value/ Number of Shares O/s
Fair Value of Assets = Value that can be generated from these assets by selling the assets in the market!
Fair Value of Liabilities = Value that you need to pay your liabilities
Example ABC Ltd want to acquire XYZ Ltd which is in the same business and is the same competitor in the market
How much will you be paying the shareholders of XYZ Ltd for selling their shares to ABC Ltd?
Note - If companies are direct competitors of each other, it is not easy to buy one other out!
You must pay a premium in order to acquire the other company!
What is a premium? It is a certain % over and above the value determined by your company!
Assets Rs FV
Fixed Assets
Machinery 10L 11L
Buildings 5L 4.5L
Current Assets
Cash 3L 3L
Debtors 5L 4.9L
Bank 2L 2L
Receivable from Others 1L 1L
Liabilities
Creditors 4L 4L
Debt Borrowings (Debentures) 8L 9.2L
1 Machinery can be sold at 10% profit, while buildings can only be sold at a 5% loss.
2 Debtors are expected to default by 2%.
3 Debt Borrowings need to be paid with a premium of 15%.
50% of the amount paid to SH will be cash, and the rest in Equities of ABC Ltd.
Determine -
1 What is the value of payments? 13.2/ share
2 What is the composition of cash vs equities?
Merger Arbitrage!
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Debt Valuation!
So when a company wants to raise money, it can raise money in two ways - either as equity, or as debt!
Equity - no fixed commitment, don’t have to worry about interest payments, etc.
Debt - there is a fixed commitment, irrespective of whether you like it or not, whether you make profits or not - you have
You can issue debt in the market, and you can get people to subscribe to debt!
1 Guaranteed returns
2 Debt has a negative correlation with equity…..or very less correlation with equity.
Now, what do you mean by correlation?
Correlation is a measure of sensitivity - it tells us how sensitive debt is to equity.
Now, what happens if there is a strong correlation between debt and equity?
If equity rises, debt will also rise!
1 During summer, ice cream business does well, and umbrella business bad.
negative correlation!
2 During monsoon, Ice cream business does bad, and umbrella does well.
negative correlation
Inflation
1 Commodities
2 Real estate
3 Bonds
Normal Bonds - you purchase the bond for 1000, at 10% interest. You receive payment of 100.
This payment is received in 2019, 2020 and 2050. Same 100 rupees.
Wont help you to beat inflation!
Inflation Linked Bonds - where the principal amount, increases with inflation.
You purchased a bond for 1000, and you get 10% interest. If inflation goes up by 15%, the
So the interest you get will be 172.5
Floatin rate bond - where the principal remain the same - so if you purchased for 1000, this will also
But the coupon rate adjusts itself, from 10% if inflation goes up by 2%, co
P I
Normal No No
Floating No Yes
Inflation Linked Yes Yes
End of the day, your net returns will always remain the same!
Question KAI Enterprises has three types of bonds outstanding in the market.
FV
Normal 1000
INFLi 1000
Float 1000
Calculate and present, how much will the investor pay for these bonds when he purchases them?
How much will the interest amounts be for these bonds for the first 3 years when inflation is 0
How much will the interest amounts be for these bonds for the next 3 years when inflation is 2%
How much will the interest amounts be for these bonds for the last 4 years when inflation is 3%
Calculate how much will the investor receive on these bonds when he redeems them?
1 Normal 1100
InfLi 1500
Float 1350
3 Inflation = 2%
5 The investor will receive the final FV on these bonds as of the date of redemption!
FV
Normal 1000
INFLi 1030
Float 1000
Liquidity
What is liquidity?
Liquidity = the ability to buy and sell bonds as and when required!
INFY = Infosys
INFY
2011 100 cr 12% It will be more expensive in the market, because everybody wants to buy
2016 75 cr 8%
2020 90 cr 7.50%
US Treasuries
20 yr
10 yr
5 yr
Is how much the delaer or the broker will pay/ receive for a particular bond.
Thin bid ask spread - a thin bid ask spread means there is lesser issued of liquidity.
More liquidity is available.
Buy 100
Sell 140
Spread -40
Wider bid ask spread - basically means that the bonds have a larger spread to work with
More difficult to buy, less liquidity.
Question Havertz Enterprises have 4 bond issues outstanding. See their bid ask spreads below according to the larges
Explain -
1 Which bonds are the most liquid
2 Which bonds are the least liquid
3 Which bonds were issued recently
4 Which bonds were issued in the past
5 Which bonds are the most expensive
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Common Bond Valuation Terminologies - and how to calculate these!
1 Issued at par, premium or discount - this means the bond is issued at a rate above the FV of the bond (premium), or below t
Remember - your coupon would be calculated only based on your FV - irrespective of when/ how much you bought the bond
Now, once you invest, your money is locked in for 5 years - you cant take the money out, you cant sell it, or you cant do any
If interest rates increase in FDs to 10% after you make the investment, what happens to the value of your investment?
Your investments value will reduce - why? Because you invested in a FD at lower interest, when everyone else is investing a
This connection - this answer of how much will my bond value move - this is basically called duration!
This is a sensitivity value of the bond to the market rates!
Beta - the eq to the market
Duration - the bond to the market!
1 Modified is normally used for all securities
2 Effective is normally used for option based securities
3 Macaulay is normally used for cash flow yield related securities
If we say INFY bonds have a duration of 1 - it means, for every 1% increase in market interest rates, there will be a 1 rupee
3 Yield
Yield = Return!
This is how much money a bond makes after you invest in it!
MV Int FV
A 150 10% 100
B 100 10% 100
Maybe -
1 Bond B has a lower credit quality
2 Bond A might be inflation linked
YTM is the present value of a bond calculated based on the future cash flows of the bond.
If the PV > MV = Buy
If the PV < MV = Sell/ Don’t Buy
Example Assume INFY is issuing a Bond at 10% Interest Rate.
The external market interest is 12%.
Assume you want to purchase 1000/- worth of bonds, calculate if the bond is a good buy if the bond is sold at PAR
Tenure - 5 years
If Market Rate > Int Rate Market Rate!
Tenure Cash Flow Amount Discount Rate Discounting V Discounted Cash Flow
P= 1000 1 Int 100 12% 0.8928571429 89.28571429
Int = 10% 2 Int 100 12% 0.7971938776 79.71938776
Int = 100 3 Int 100 12% 0.7117802478 71.17802478
4 Int 100 12% 0.6355180784 63.55180784
5 Int 100 12% 0.5674268557 56.74268557
5 Principle 1000 12% 0.5674268557 567.4268557
1500 927.904476
Points
1 Market Rate is not constant - will keep changing, so we need to change our analysis accordingly
2 Market Rate is always an assumption!
3 When do you make assumption?
Summarizing!
1 Inflation!
2 Liquidity!
3 Interest Rates !
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Preference Share Capital!
Cummulative/ Non-Cummulatvie = PSC that is expected to accrue dividends even if the company
Non Cumulative PSC = if in any particular year, you do not get a dividend, that dividend is forfeite
Simple - you pay an x amount and you get a dividend as a portion of the FV of the capital!
FV 100
MV 110
Div 10%
Amount 10
Question INFY usually pays a fixed dividend of 100 Rs for every 1000 Rs of share capital.
INFY PS are currently in the market, and are demanded by a lot of people.
You need to find out if INFY is a good buy at inflated rates in the market - MV - 1200
Dividend = 100
Cost of Capital = D/ FV = 100/1000 = 10%
Mrket Value = 1200
Value = Dividend
Cost of Capital
= 100
10%
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Derivatives!
Imagine you are running a restaurant in Delhi - your main product is the chole bhatura!
You have receive a huge order of 10,000 plates of chole bhatura, in 2 months!
Jan-31
Mar-31
Let me enter into a contract to buy this chole today (Jan 31) for March 31 - but I will fix the price today!
When is cotnract entered? Jan-31
When do I pay? Mar-31
When I price decided? Jan-31
Price that will be decided 160/ kg
MV 150
I make a profit!
Sell makes a loss!
Futures contracts - regulated by exchanges? Stock exchanges! Make sure to regulate this!
Futures contracts are safer!
But, they will be in denominations decided by the exchange!
Options
Options Contracts give you the right to buy something, but not an obligation.
What does it mean? It means you are allowed to legally say I don’t want to buy it at expiry.
I will buy an option to buy chole at 160/kg. I will buy a call option!
I will pay a premium of 2/ kg
Payment MV = 17,500
Profit 1,300
Swaps Contract!
You can swap something you have for something someone else has!
Mr A Mr B
Loans Fixed Floating
Interest 5% RBI + 1% = 4 + 1 = 5
Expectation Int will go down! Int will go up!
Wants Floating Fixed
Plain Vanilla Swap
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