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Chapter 7

Securities Markets

© 2003 John Wiley and Sons


Chapter Outcomes

Describe the processes and institutions used by
businesses to distribute new securities to the investing
public.
 Outline the recent difficulties and changes in
structure of the investment banking industry.
 Describe how securities are traded among
investors.
 Identify the regulatory mechanisms by which the
securities exchanges and the over-the-counter markets
are controlled.
 Explain influences that affect broker
commissions.
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Issuing Securities: Primary
Security Markets

 Primary versus secondary securities


markets
 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
 Investment Banks

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Functions of Investments Banks

 Three Main Functions:


– Origination
– Underwriting
– Selling
 Origination
– Public Offering
– Private Placement
– Prospectus
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Investment Bank Functions,
continued
 Underwriting
– “Carrying the risk”
– Best efforts
– Shelf registration
– Private placement
– Rights offerings
– Competitive bids

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Investment Bank Functions,
continued
 Selling
– Syndicate
– Tombstone Ad
– Aftermarket

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The Costs of Raising Capital

 The costs of issuing stocks and


bonds are called “flotation costs.”
– Out-of-pocket costs
– Spread
– Underpricing
 The sum of these costs can total 20-
30%..or more...of the funds raised
 Hot/cold IPO markets
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Innovations in Investment
Banking
 Security design to meet needs of
issuers/purchases
 Offering securities via internet
“dutch auctions”

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What else do Investment Banks
do?
 Commercial paper
 Mergers and acquisitions
 Manage investment funds (e.g.,
company pension funds)

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Investment Banking Regulations

 Securities Act of 1933


– Full, fair, and accurate disclosure
– Prevent fraud
 Securities Exchange Act of 1934
– Established SEC
– Brokers, dealers register with SEC
 State “blue sky” laws
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Investment Banking Regulations

 Glass-Steagall Act
– Commercial banks cannot underwrite
securities
 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
– Removed many restraints of Glass-
Steagall on financial services firms

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Trading Securities: Secondary
Securities Markets
 Organized Exchange versus Over-
the-Counter (OTC)

 Organized Exchange: NYSE

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Trading on the NYSE floor

 Members own “seats”


 Commission brokers
 Floor brokers
 Registered traders
 Specialists
 Companies need to meet listing
requirements, pay fees
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Ways to Trade Stock

 Market order
 Limit order
 Stop order
 Short sale
– Uptick rule
– 19.95 19.95 20.00 20.00
– 20.07 20.01 20.01

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Buying on Margin
 “Buying on margin” means to use
some of your money (equity) and
some borrowed funds to purchase a
security
 Margin: investor’s equity position
 Margin requirements: minimum
percentage of the purchase price
that the investor must pay from
his/her funds
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Margin’s effect on trading profits
Assume: 60% margin
Initially buy securities worth $50,000
Initial
position t=1 t=2
Mkt value $50,000 $55,000 $45,000
Less: borrowed
funds 20,000 20,000 20,000
Equity $30,000 $35,000 $25,000
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More investing terms
 Margin call
 Maintenance margin

Margin = equity/market value


= (MV - $ borrowed)/MV
= (price x # shares - $ borrowed)
price x # shares
Price for margin call:
$ borrowed/[# shares (1-maint. margin)]
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More terms…

 Round lot (ភាគហ៊ុនជូញដូរចំនួន ១០០ហ៊ុន)


 Odd lot (ភាគហ៊ុនលក់បញ្ចុះថ្)
 Program trading

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Over-The-Counter Market (OTC)

 NASDAQ
 Not just for small firms
– Intel, Apple, Microsoft
 Centralized versus non-centralized
location
 Specialists versus dealers

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Other Secondary Markets

 Third Market
– Large blocks (10,000 shares) traded
OTC

 Fourth Market
– Electronic trading, ECNs

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Commissions

Commission affected by:


 Type of broker

– Full service brokers


– Discount brokers
– On-line brokers
 Size of trade, security price
 Liquidity of securities traded
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Some issuing firms allow…

 Direct investing
– Buy shares directly from the firm
 Dividend Reinvestment Plan

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How’s the Market Doing?

 Security Market Indexes are used to


track overall market and sector
performance for stocks, bonds, and
other investments
 Well-known stock market indexes:
– Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Based on price
– Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500
• Based on market value
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Wandering from Home: Investing
Overseas
 Diversification benefits
 Harder to do trades
– Liquidity
– Currency differences
– Regulations, tax laws
 Solutions:
– American Depository Receipts
– Global Depository Receipts
– Mutual funds--professional investing
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Ethics Issues

 Insider trading
 An insider: someone with access to
important non-public information
 can be a corporate officer,
investment banker, major
shareholder
 blue-collar workers, too (e.g.,
printing press operators)
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Ethics

 Regulation FD
 Churning of accounts
 Professional designations (CFA®,
CFPTM) have ethics components as a
central feature of their certification
programs

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What will the future hold?

 Electronic and on-line trading


 Continued globalization

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Learning Extension 11A
Introduction to Futures and Options

 What is a derivative security?


 Why do they exist?
 Future Contracts
 Options

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What is a derivative security?

A derivative security has its value


determined by, or derived from, the
value of another investment vehicle.

They represent a contract on an


underlying security or asset

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Why do derivatives exist?

 Shift risk from those who don’t want


to carry risk to those who are willing
to do so.
 Bring additional information into the
market from hedgers, speculators,
market expectations.
 Lower commissions and margin
requirements than in spot market
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Futures contracts

 A futures contract obligates the


owner to purchase the underlying
asset at a specified price (the
exercise or strike price) on a
specified date

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Types of futures contracts

 Corn, wheat, soybeans…


 Stock indexes, interest rates, foreign
currency values…
 Gold, copper, silver, oil…
 Coffee, sugar, cocoa...

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Options

An options contract gives the owner


the choice of trading the underlying
asset at a specified price (the
exercise or strike price) on or before
a specified date or expiration date.

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Two basic types of options

 Call option: an option to buy the


underlying asset at the strike price

 Put option: an option to sell the


underlying asset at the strike price

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Call Options
 Suppose you buy an option to buy
100 shares of ExxonMobil stock at
$75 a share. How much is the option
worth if on the expiration date the
price of Exxon is:
 a) $60 a share?
 b) $75 a share?
 c) $80 a share?
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Put Options
 Suppose you buy an option to sell
100 shares of ExxonMobil stock at
$75 a share. How much is the option
worth if on the expiration date the
price of Exxon is:
 a) $60 a share?
 b) $75 a share?
 c) $80 a share?

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