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3.1. Common shares
•Voting right
▪Statutory voting
▪Cumulative voting
•Proxy voting
•Class
•Options in shares
▪Callable common share
▪Puttable common share08-guidelines-for-elections-at-the-agm-2020-637268850416081739.pdf
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3.3. Private equity
•Non-listed
•Venture capital: “seed”/ startup/ mezzanine financing to early stage
•A leverage buyout (LBO): a group of investors used a large amount of debt
to purchase all shares of public company => make company private or
restructuring => target is high asset value or strong cash flow
•Private Investment in Public Company (PIPE): public company in distress
(high level of debt, high need for capital) might do private placement to sell
large ownership stake at discount price
=> long term & high risk; small but growth market
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5. Company value
•The ultimate goal of management
•Management can directly change book value
•Management can only indirectly change market value
=> Accounting ROE
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5. Company value
Return on equity (ROE):
•The primary measure that equity investors use to determine whether the
management of a company is effectively and efficiently using the capital
they have provided to generate profits.
•Computed as net income available to ordinary shareholders (i.e., after
preferred dividends have been deducted) divided by the average total book
value of equity (BVE).
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Whether an increasing ROE is always good?
•(1) net income increases at a faster rate than shareholders’ equity or
(2) net income decreases at a slower rate than shareholders’ equity
•company issues debt and then uses the proceeds to repurchase some
of its outstanding shares = increase the company’s leverage and make
its equity riskier
Examine the source of changes
Using DuPont formula
5. Company value
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6. Cost of capital
•Market capitalization:
•Price/Book ratio: compare market valuation to company accounting
value of book (equity)
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Example 1: Return on equity?
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Solution
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Example 2: Market to book ratio?
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•Cost of debt
•Cost of equity
=> Estimated by?
•WACC: weighted average cost of capital
6. Cost of capital