Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management
FIN 630
- A ___ dollar is worth more than a ___ dollar.
- Silver; gold
- Safe; risky
- Far; near
- Depreciated; appreciated
- The semi-annual bond interest payment is best associated with which of the following time value of money concepts?
- Present value
- Future value
- Annuity
- All of Above
- Which of the following is a secured bond?
- Treasury note
- Convertible Bond
- General obligation bond
- Mortgage bond
- Which of the following statements is associated with improved operational efficiency of financial markets?
- New information quickly spreads via the Internet
- Competition among companies reduces their product/service prices and increases their profitability
- Competition and technology applications have reduced trading commissions to under $10 per trade
- Companies have investor relations specialists to communicate with stock analysts and news reporters
- When the final details of a security issue are not known at the time of the prospectus mailing, a preliminary prospectus is made available to potential investors. This preliminary prospectus is known as
- The 10Q report
- Form 144
- A red herring
- Schedule 14A
- When a stock index is price-weighted, the index is composed of:
- The total number of shares outstanding for each company in the index
- One share value of each of the index components
- Weights based upon the total market value of each company
- None of these
- In which stage of the industry life cycle is a specific company likely to be generally more attractive to the majority of investors?
- Pioneering stage
- Expansion stage
- Stabilization stage
- Declining stage
- A zero coupon security:
- Earns no interest
- Pays no interest
- Earns no return
- Is a defaulted security
- What is the usual number of interest-paying periods for a ten-year bond?
- Ten
- Forty
- Twenty
- One at maturity
- What type of information Moody's publication would provide financial statements of many companies?
- Moody's Bond Record
- Moody's Manuals
- Moody's Handbook of Common Stocks
- Moody's Dividend Record
