Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1·1 The Goal of Finance: Relative Valuation 2
The Law of One Price, 2;
1·2 Investments, Projects, and Firms 3
1·3 Firms vs. Individuals 5
I Value and Capital Budgeting
(in a Perfect Market under Risk-Neutrality) 9
Chapter 2 The Time Value of Money and Net Present Value 13
2·1 Our Basic Scenario: Perfect Markets, Certainty, Constant Interest Rates 14
2·2 Loans and Bonds 14
2·3 Returns, Net Returns, and Rates of Return 15
2·4 The Time Value of Money, Future Value, and Compounding 17
The Future Value of Money, 17; • Compounding and Future Value, 18; • How Banks Quote Interest Rates, 22;
2·5 Present Values, Discounting, and Capital Budgeting 23
2·6 Net Present Value 27
Application: Are Faster Growing Firms Better Bargains?, 30;
2·7 Summary 32
Chapter 3 Stock and Bond Valuation: Annuities and Perpetuities 37
3·1 Perpetuities 38
The Simple Perpetuity Formula, 38; • The Growing Perpetuity Formula, 39;
• Perpetuity Application: Stock Valuation with A Gordon Growth Model, 41;
3·2 Annuities 43
Annuity Application: Fixed-Rate Mortgage Payments, 44; • Annuity Application: A
Level-Coupon Bond, 44;
3·3 The Four Formulas Summarized 47
3·4 Summary 49
A Advanced Material 50
Projects With Different Lives and Rental Equivalents, 50; • Perpetuity and Annuity
Derivations, 53;
Chapter 4 A First Encounter With Capital Budgeting Rules 59
4·1 Net Present Value 60
Separating Investment Decisions and Consumption Choices: Does Project Value
Depend on When You Need Cash?, 60;
4·2 The Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 63
Projects with Multiple or No IRRs, 66; • IRR as a Capital Budgeting Rule, 68;
• Problems with IRR as a Capital Budgeting Rule, 69;
4·3 The Profitability Index 70
4·4 The Payback Capital Budgeting Rule 72
4·5 How do Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) Decide? 73
4·6 Summary 74
Chapter 5 Time-Varying Rates of Return and the Yield Curve 79
5·1 Working With Time-Varying Rates of Return 80
Compounding Different Rates of Return, 80; • Annualized Rates of Return , 81;
• Present Values With Time-Varying Interest Rates, 84;
5·2 Inflation 85
Defining the Inflation Rate, 85; • Real and Nominal Interest Rates, 87; • Inflation in
Net Present Values, 88;
5·3 Time-Varying Interest Rates in Bonds: U.S. Treasuries and The Yield Curve 90
Yield Curve Shapes, 90; • An Example: The Yield Curve on December 31, 2004, 92;
• Bond Payoffs and Your Investment Horizon, 94; • The Effect of Interest Rate
Changes on Short-Term and Long-Term Bonds, 94;
5·4 Why is the (Nominal) Yield Curve Usually Upward-Sloping? 98
Does It Predict Higher Future Inflation?, 98; • Does It Predict Higher Future Interest
Rates?, 99; • Does It Mean Bargains on the Long End?, 100; • Does It Compensate
Investors For Risk?, 100; • Corporate Insights About Time-Varying Costs of Capital
From the Yield Curve, 100;
5·5 Summary 101
A The Finer Points of Bonds 104
Extracting Forward Interest Rates, 104; • Shorting and Locking in Forward Interest
Rates, 106; • Bond Duration, 108; • Duration Similarity, 109; • Duration
Hedging, 110; • Continuous Compounding, 111; • Some Institutional Knowledge:
Price Quotes and STRIPS, 112; • Appendix Summary, 113;
Chapter 6 Uncertainty, Default, and Risk 117
6·1 An Introduction to Statistics 118
Random Variables and Expected Values, 118; • Variance, and Standard
Deviation, 120; • Risk-Neutrality (and Risk-Aversion Preview), 121;
6·2 Interest Rates and Credit Risk (Default Risk) 122
Risk-Neutral Investors Demand Higher Promised Rates, 122; • A More Elaborate
Example With Probability Ranges, 124; • Deconstructing Quoted Rates of Return —
Time and Default Premiums, 125; • Credit Ratings and Default Rates, 126;
• Differences in Quoted Bond Returns in 2002, 128; • Credit Default Swaps, 129;
6·3 Uncertainty in Capital Budgeting 130
Present Value With State-Contingent Payoff Tables, 130;
6·4 Splitting Uncertain Project Payoffs into Debt and Equity 133
The Loan, 133; • The Levered Equity, 134; • Reflections On The Example: Payoff
Tables, 135; • Reflections On The Example: Debt and Equity Risk, 136; • What
“Leverage” Really Means — Financial and Operational Leverage, 137; • Working More
Than Two Possible Outcomes, 138;
6·5 Summary 141
II Investments: Risk Vs. Expected Returns
(in a Perfect Market under Risk-Aversion) 147
Chapter 7 A First Look at Investments 151
7·1 Stocks, Bonds, and Cash, 1970–2004 152
Graphical Representations of Historical Returns, 152; • Historical Investment
Performance, 155; • Comovement, Market-Beta, and Correlation, 159; • The Big
Picture Take-aways, 161; • Will History Repeat Itself?, 162;
7·2 A Brief Overview of Equities Market Institutions and Vehicles 164
Brokers, 164; • Exchanges and Non-Exchanges, 164; • Investment Companies
(ADRs and Funds), 166; • How Securities Appear and Disappear, 166;
7·3 Summary 168
Chapter 8 Investor Choice: Risk and Reward 171
8·1 Measuring Risk and Reward 172
Measuring Reward: The Expected Rate of Return, 174; • Measuring Risk: The
Standard Deviation of the Rate of Return, 174;
8·2 Portfolios, Diversification, and Investor Preferences . . 175
Assume Investors Care Only About Risk and Reward, 178;
8·3 How To Measure Risk Contribution . 179
An Asset’s own Risk is not a Good Measure for Risk Contribution To a Portfolio, 179;
• Beta Is a Good Measure for Risk Contribution to a Portfolio, 181; • Why not
Correlation or Covariance?, 186; • Interpreting Typical Stock Market Betas, 186;
8·4 Expected Rates of Return and Market-Betas For (Weighted) Portfolios and Firms 188
8·5 Spreadsheet Calculations For Risk and Reward . 191
Statistical Nuances, 191;
8·6 Summary . 193
A An Investor’s Specific Trade-Off of Risk vs Reward 196
A Short-Cut Formula For the Risk of a Portfolio, 198; • Graphing the Mean-Variance
Efficient Frontier, 200; • Adding a Risk-Free Rate, 203;
Chapter 9 The Capital Asset Pricing Model . . 213
9·1 What You Already Know And What You Want To Know 214
9·2 The Capital-Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) — A Cookbook Recipe Approach 215
The Security Market Line (SML), 216;
9·3 The CAPM Cost of Capital in the Present Value Formula 219
Deconstructing Quoted Rates of Return — Risk Premiums, 219;
9·4 Estimating the CAPM Inputs 221
The Equity Premium, 221; • The Risk-Free Rate and Multi-Year Considerations, 225;
• Investment Projects’ Market Betas, 226;
9·5 Empirical Reality 232
The Relationship Between Beta and Expected Rates of Return If the CAPM Does Not
Work, 232; • Does the CAPM Work?, 234;
9·6 Summary . 240
A Application: Certainty Equivalence 243
Valuing Goods Not Priced at Fair Value, 243; • Application: The CAPM Hurdle Rate
For a Project With Cash Flow History Only, 246;
B Theory: CAPM Background 248
Portfolio Separation, 248; • The Mean-Variance Efficient Frontier and CAPM-type
Formulas, 248; • CAPM Logic Recap, 250;
C Theory: CAPM Alternatives!? 251
The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) and Intertemporal CAPM (ICAPM), 251; • The
Fama-French-Momentum (-And-More) Model , 253;
III Value and Market Efficiency in an Imperfect Market 259
Chapter 10 Market Imperfections . . 263
10·1 Causes and Consequences of Imperfect Markets 264
Perfect Market Assumptions and Violations, 264; • Application: How Perfect is the
Market for PepsiCo Shares?, 265; • Ambiguous Value in Imperfect Markets, 266;
• Some Imperfect Market Examples, 267; • Do You Always Get What You Pay
For?, 267; • Social Value and Surplus, 268;
10·2 The Effects of Disagreements . . 269
Expected Return Differences vs. Promised Return Differences, 269; • Corporate
Finance vs. Entrepreneurial Finance: The Firm’s Credit Quality, 270; • Covenants,
Collateral, and Credit Rating Agencies, 271;
10·3 Market Depth and Transaction Costs 272
Typical Costs When Trading Real Goods—Real Estate, 272; • Typical Costs When
Trading Financial Goods—Stocks, 273; • Transaction Costs in Returns and Net
Present Values, 275; • The Value of Liquidity, 276;
10·4 An Introduction to The Tax Code 277
The Basics of (Federal) Income Taxes, 277;
10·5 Working With Taxes . 279
Taxes in Rates of Returns, 279; • Tax-Exempt Bonds and the Marginal Investor, 279;
• Taxes in Net Present Values, 280; • Tax Timing, 282;
10·6 Stated Yields and Premiums in Imperfect Markets 283
Deconstructing Quoted Rates of Return — Liquidity and Tax Premiums, 284;
10·7 Multiple Effects: How to Work Problems You Have Not Yet Encountered . . 286
Solving a Problem With Inflation and Taxes, 286; • Taxes on Nominal Returns?, 287;
10·8 Summary . 288
Chapter 11 Efficient Markets, Classical Finance, and Behavioral Finance . 295
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