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Chapter 40 The Stock Market Crashes. Chapter Outline. Stock Prices Efficient Markets Stock Market Crashes The Accounting Scandals of 2001 and 2002 Rebound of 2006-2007 and the Drop of 2008-2009. What are Stocks?.
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Chapter Outline • Stock Prices • Efficient Markets • Stock Market Crashes • The Accounting Scandals of 2001 and 2002 • Rebound of 2006-2007 and the Drop of 2008-2009
What are Stocks? • If a company has “N” shares of stock, each one entitles the owner to a fraction (1/Nth) of • The vote in determining membership on the board of directors. • The declared dividends of the company. • The proceeds from a sale of the company.
Stock Prices: How they are Determined • Fundamentals • Earnings projections • Interest rates • Non-fundamental • The expected price of the share in the future.
The Fundamental Value of a Share of Stock • The fundamental value of a share of stock is the present value of the projected earnings at an expected interest rate. • An increase in earnings increases stock values. • A decrease in the interest rate increases stock value.
What Stock Markets Do • An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is whena company sells stock for the first time in an attempt to raise money for expansion and is a very small part of everyday market activity. • Most sales of stock do not involve the company receiving or paying money. They are simply the transfer of the asset from one holder to another. • Non-IPO stock markets are necessary for IPO markets to exist. They allow liquidity, the ability of the investor to get money back out again.
The Function of Trading • Regular trading of stock serves to equate the risk-adjusted return to investors across assets.
Efficient Markets • Any market is called efficient if all information is taken into account by participants. • Under the Efficient Markets Hypothesis the contention is that an average investor with no inside information will fare no better or worse making choices than a someone who spends a great deal of time contemplating their portfolio.
Stock Indexes • Stock indexes are a weighted average of stock prices in a particular group and serve to measure the state of the stock market as a whole. • Examples include • Dow Jones Industrials • Standard and Poor’s • NASDAQ
Stock Market Crashes • October 1929 • Stock market lost more than 25% of its value in a few days. It was not permanently above its Oct. 1929 high until after World War II. • October 1987 • Stock Market lost 20% of its value in one day. It rebounded quickly.
Bubbles • A bubble is the state of a market where the current price is far above its value determined by fundamentals. • Prices rise which • creates the expectation that prices will rise further which • Repeat steps 1 and 2
Examples of Bubbles • The Asian Financial Crisis of 1998-1999 • Share prices increased dramatically through the 1980s and 1990s. • Currency devaluations and risky investments caused precipitous declines. • NASDAQ 2000 • The “tech-heavy” nature of the NASDAQ fueled unrealistic expectations for earnings growth. When that growth did not materialize, the NASDAQ lost 50% of its value in a year. It lost more in 2001.
Why Tech Stocks Lost Value • Fundamental Reasons • Earnings projections dropped • Interest rates rose through 2000; they fell substantially in 2001 but that was due to recession concerns. • Realism strikes • The projected growth path of earnings was not realistic.
Accounting Scandals of 2001 and 2002 • K-Mart-poor performance • Global Crossing-fraud and very high risk • Enron-fraud
Bankruptcy • A legal status entered into when a company or individual cannot pay its debt. • Bankruptcy is necessary because • creditors acting in their own interest will seek immediate payment/foreclosure. • It is in the interests of all creditors that debtors have time to make their payments • Varieties of Corporate Bankruptcies • Chapter 11 - allows for reorganization • Chapter 13 – allows for orderly sale of all assets
Enron Case • Accounting fraud was employed so that the management of the company could overstate profits. • Managers were paid in stock options to combat the principal-agent problem • The problem that occurs when the owner of an asset and the manager of that asset are different and have different preferences. • The Enron-type fraud was of more concern to investors because it introduced a new variety of risk.
Rebound in 2006-2007 & Drop in 2008-2009 • All international stock markets rose substantially between 2006 and 2007. • The Dow Jones set a record above 14,000 • The Global Financial Crisis in 2008-2009 • Dow Jones fell to 6,500