HI5002 Finance for Business

Subject Code :
HI5002
Country :
AU
University :
Holmes Institute

Comparison of three key financial products common stocks, bonds and preferred stocks from the perspective of an investor

Criteria for comparison include: (1) ownership status; (2) nature of funding; (iii) risks; (iv) income; (v) voting right, (vi) maturity and (vii) priority in liquidation. Your research should be supported by real life examples of common stocks, bonds and preferred stocks issued by any company with relevant data of first issuance, trading market, trading volume, market capitalization and market price.

Example: On May 18, 2012, Facebook first issued their common stock in the largest technology IPO in US financial market history. In that issue Facebook offered 421,233,615 shares at a price of $38 per share and raised $16.007 billion. Facebook share is traded on Nasdaq market. As of 29 October 2019, Facebook common share has the trading volume of 13,574,856 shares, market previous close of $189.40, market open price of $191.50 and market cap of 540,092,058,776. A graph of five year trading data should be provided for each example

Analysis of five basis principles of finance

Define the five basic principles finance and justify your analysis by illustrating examples: Choose one or more events described by media (CNN Business, Financial Times, Dow Jones financial news etc.) about companies and financial market. Analyse that event (s) applying the five basis principles of finance. Note: Each principle is to be illustrated by at least one event. Example of an event in media that reflect one of five basic principle of finance: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average was clinging to a small gain, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slipped back into negative territory after The Wall Street Journal said U.S.-China trade talks hit a snag over purchases of agricultural products. The Dow DJIA, +0.33% was up 24 points, or 0.1%, at 27,716, while the S&P 500 SPX, +0.07% edged down 0.1% to 3,089. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.05% was off 0.3% at 8,464.

Posted on : December 20th, 2019

HI5002 Finance for Business

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