Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis
H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz
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Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis
H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz
About This Book
Sharpen your understanding of the financial markets with this incisive volume
Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis brings together many of the leading practitioner and academic voices in finance to produce a comprehensive and empirical examination of equity markets.
Masterfully written and edited by experts in the field, Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis introduces the basic concepts and applications that govern the area before moving on to increasingly intricate treatments of sub-fields and market trends. The book includes in-depth coverage of subjects including:
Ā· The latest trends and research from across the globe
Ā· The controversial issues facing the field of valuation and the future outlook for the field
Ā· Empirical evidence and research on equity markets
Ā· How investment professionals analyze and manage equity portfolios
This book balances its comprehensive discussion of the empirical foundations of equity markets with the perspectives of financial experts. It is ideal for professional investors, financial analysts, and undergraduate and graduate students in finance.
Frequently asked questions
CHAPTER 1
Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis: An Overview
INTRODUCTION
- Dividend discount method. Dividend discount valuation uses the present value of future dividend payments to compute a stock's fundamental value. This model requires estimating the growth patterns for dividends, cost of capital, and the last dividend paid. Some models, such as the Gordon constant growth model, assume that the historical dividend growth rate continues in the future, whereas others make different assumptions.
- Free cash flow method. If a firm does not pay dividends, an alternative valuation technique, called free cash flow valuation, uses a firm's free cash flow, which is the cash flow available in a company after considering investment in fixed capital, working capital, and other expenses to keep the company going. Although positive free cash flow is desirable and an optimistic sign for a firm's financial health, negative free cash flow is not necessarily an unfavorable signal as it may indicate that a firm is making substantial investments.
- Comparables method. Market-based valuation focuses on comparing similar businesses to value a firm's stock. This valuation is known as comparables or comps valuation and can be based on the type of business, transaction, or industry averages. The key element of the approach is to find a value-based characteristic relative to the value of the business.
- Other valuation methods. Additional valuation techniques include residual income valuation, which focuses on excess income above the costs measured relative to the equity used, and technical analysis, which values a firm or stock using the data from trading activities, including price and volume changes.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Purpose of the Book
Distinguishing Features
- The book provides an introduction to this broad, complex, and competitive field. It skillfully blends the contributions of a global array of academics and practitioners into a single review of some of the most important topics in this area. The varied backgrounds of the contributors assure different perspectives and a rich interplay of ideas. The book also reflects the latest trends and research in a global context and discusses several controversial issues as well as the future outlook for this field.
- While retaining the content and perspectives of the many contributors, the book follows an internally consistent approach in format and style. Similar to a choir that contains many voices, this book has many contributing authors, each with their separate voices. A goal of both a choir and this book is to have the many voices sing together harmoniously. Accomplishing this task for the book requires skilled editing by the co-editors to assure a seamless flow when moving from chapter to chapter. Hence, the book is collectively much more than a compilation of chapters from an array of different authors.
- The book presents theory without unnecessary abstraction, quantitative techniques using basic mathematics, and conventions at a useful level of detail. It also incorporates how investment professionals analyze and manage equity portfolios.
- The book places a strong emphasis on empirical evidence involving equity markets, valuation, and analysis. When discussing the results of various studies, the objective is to distill them to their essential content and practical implications so they are understandable to a wide array of readers.
- The end of each chapter contains four to six discussion q...