Corporate Financing
2. Financial instruments
2.1 Financial markets
2.2 Equity and Debt
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Finance economies;
Majority voting system: managers are voted for one by one (sequentially), and therefore
the elected candidate will be the one chosen by the majority shareholder. Minority
shareholders have no chance to make their candidate win if the majority shareholder
choses someone else.
Example: A company has to elect 4 candidates. There are only two shareholders in this
company, a majority shareholder with 79 shares and a minority shareholder with 21 shares
(# total shares is 100).
With the accumulated system
Candidates 1 2 3 4 5
Issued shares are registered at their Nominal Value (or Face Value)
Share price:
Issue at par value: the share price is equal to the nominal value
Fiscal aspects:
Contrary to debt, dividend payments are not deductible
Fiscal advantage to some investors: companies that hold preferred
shares from other companies do have the right to deduct a certain
percentage of those dividends
Retained earnings: The part of the net earnings (income) that is not
distributed as dividends.
Earnings per share (EPS): Net earnings / number of shares
Payout Ratio: proportion of earnings distributed as dividends
Book value of equity (BVE): accounting value of equity
Return on Equity (ROE): Earnings generated by every dollar/euro of
equity (book value)
Market Capitalization: share price x number of shares issued (=
market value of equity).
Remark: market value of equity can be different from book value of equity!!
Retained earningst:
Year t = 1 Year t = 2
BVEt-1 10 10,8
NEt 2 2,16
2. Bearer or registered
With bearer bonds the bondholder is not known to the firm. Whoever holds the
bond is entitled to the coupons and principal.
Registered bonds (more common): the firm knows the names of the holders of
the bonds it issued.
A bond with face value 100 that is listed at 100,75, is listed at a premium
A bond with face value 100 that is listed at 100, is listed at par
Zero coupon bonds do not give any coupons ever. These bonds are usually
sold at a discount of their face value. Compute the yield of a zero coupon bond
with face value F=1000 euros on the 15/06/2009 that matures the 15/12/2009
and price at issue of 977 euros:
Effective annual yield (rD) = ((1,000 / 977 )^(12 / 6)) -1 = 4.76%
Coupon bonds give interests regularly (coupons): consider a coupon bond with
a 5% coupon that is paid on March 15th every year, face value = 1000 euros,
actual date is 15/03/2000, and maturity 15/03/2003 and price 992.5 euros.
Effective annual yield (rD ) = 5.28%
7. Collateral
Protects debtholders in case of bankruptcy: they can seize the collateral
The more collateral the firm provides, the lower will be the interest rate of debt (lower risk).
Unsecured debt:
Simple bonds (long term)
Commercial paper (short term)
Secured debt: debt may be guaranteed in different ways.
Debt may be secured with a mortgage, the bondholder has proprietary rights on a
real estate asset in case of default;
Debt may be backed by securities: the portfolio of titles the firm has secures debt.
E.g. Holding companies can obtain debt backed by the shares they own on their
subsidiary companies;
Debt may be backed with fixed assets or inventories of a company: naturally, the
more tangible and liquid the assets of the firm are, the higher is the collateral value
they have for securing debt;
Governments sometimes may provide guarantees for some debt issues (e.g. deposit
insurance);
Rules that define the access to funds, whenever the firm is in distress or
when it goes through liquidation.
Debt can be senior or junior. Senior debt has priority over junior debt.
Only if senior debtors are paid in full will junior debtors receive any
funds.
Stocks Debt
In the case of debt issues, a private issue pays higher interests relatively
to a public issue.
Private issue: lower direct issuance costs but a higher coupon rate
(riskier bonds due to asymmetries of information and lower liquidity);
Hard to value other aspects (e.g. Recognition effects, increased
efficiency) because they are firm and sector specific.
Example: The firm Alfa is looking to issue bonds with a 20 year maturity to
raise 20 Million (VN). Its presented with two alternatives:
Public issue: Issuance costs representing 1% of the amount issued and
investors require a coupon rate of 7% (rC1) paid annually;
Private issue: Issuance costs representing 0.25% of the amount issued
and investors require a coupon rate of 7.1% (rC2) paid annually;
Assume that the opportunity cost of det (rD) is 7% (i.e. lowest coupon).
What is the best option for the firm?
Solution:
A. The underwriter margin was 21- 19,69 = 1,31 * 2,8 M = 3,7 M$
Following an IPO, firms might need more funds and thereby issue more
shares or bonds.
After an IPO, there are other differences between public issues:
Single issue: the firm prepares and makes a single issue.
Seasoned issues: with a single registry and prospect the firm plans
several issues (very advantageous: lower costs for several issues, short
notice).
Open issue: issue that targets all investors.
Rights issue: issue limited to existing shareholders. With rights issues,
the firm offers its shareholders options to buy new shares at an
attractive price.
a: # of old shares;
N = a/q.
Conclusion: Issuing shares with an issuance price lower than the market
price does not harm the shareholder value when there are subscription
rights.