Session:11 Stocks and Stock Valuation
Review Questions
Principles of Finance | Leadership Development – Micro-Learning Session
Rice University 2020 | Michael Laverty, Colorado State University Global Chris Littel, North Carolina State University| https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-finance
1 . Briefly discuss one of the primary benefits of using comparative P/E ratios.
2 . Name an important characteristic of companies for which the price-to-book (P/B) ratio does not work well.
3 . Briefly describe the main type of scenario in which the two-stage DDM approach might be used to value a firm and its stock.
4 . Briefly describe a major shortcoming of the zero growth DDM model.
5 . Briefly describe the required inputs for the discounted cash flow (DCF) model.
6 . Briefly describe preferred stock and some of its ownership advantages compared to common stock.
7 . Briefly explain what is meant by the terms cumulative and noncumulative as they relate to preferred stocks.
8 . What were SuperDOT and SOES, and what were they designed to do?
9 . What are operational efficiency and informational efficiency, and how do they differ in terms of trading markets?
10 . What is meant by informational efficiency, and how does it affect the price of a stock?