Finance Final Review 2

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Final Review personal finance 2

Question 1: "Own a corporation". They elect directors via proxies, who hire a CEO
Common Stockholders
Corporations
Preferred Stockholders

Question 2: Why do Corporations issue common stock?
All of the above
To pay for ongoing business expenses
To raise money, start or expand a business
They don't have to repay the money
They don't have to pay interest

Question 3: How do you make money on stocks?
Capital Gains and dividends
Dividends
Capital Gains

Question 4: (Current Quarterly dividend x 4)/Current stock price=
Yield to Maturity
Current Stock Yield
Current Dividend Yield

Question 5: How do you make money on stocks?
Appreciation of stock price or capital gain
Depreciation of stock price or capital loss
Current Dividend Yields

Question 6: Stock splits:
Double the price but halve the stock
Halve the stock and halve the price
Double the stock but halve the price
Double the stock and double the price

Question 7: Includes dividends plus capital gain (loss) on a stock during the holding period
Average Annual Return
Total Annual Return
Geometric Annual Return

Question 8: The most meaningful type of annual return:
Geometric
Total
Average

Question 9: A hybrid security with characteristics of both a stock and a bond, where you receive cash dividends before common stockholders are paid any cash dividends.
Bonds
Common Stock
Preferred Stock
Dividends

Question 10: Unpaid cash dividends accumulate and must be paid before any cash dividends are paid to the common stock holders
Conversion Feature
Cumulative Feature
Risk

Question 11: Can be traded for shares of common stock (Preferred stock)
Risk
Conversion feature
Cumulative Feature

Question 12: Safe investment in strong and respected companies, attracts conservative investors
Initial public offerings
Income Stock
Value stocks
Growth Stock
Blue chip stock

Question 13: Pays higher than average dividend yield
Initial public offerings
Blue Chip Stock
Growth Stock
Income stock
Value stocks

Question 14: Earns above average profits of all firms in the economy, less than 30% of profits are paid out as dividends, balance is reinvested in the firm. Investors realize appreciation in stock price
Blue Chip stock
Value Stock
IPOs
Growth Stock
Income Stock

Question 15: Stocks where the underlying value of the assets is worth more than current trading price, sum of the part is>whole
Growth stock
Blue chip stock
IPO
Value Stocks
Income Stock

Question 16: Companies Issuing shares in the primary market for the first time, typically a highly prized investment. However returns on these are not that good.
Income stock
Value stock
Initial public Offerings (IPOs)
Blue chip stock
Growth stock

Question 17: Follows the business cycle of advances and declines in the economy
Cyclical Stock
IPO
Value Stock
Defensive Stock

Question 18: Remains stable during declines in the economy
Defensive stock
IPO
Value Stock
Cyclical Stock

Question 19: _____ The value of all securities, stocks and bonds issued by a corporation
____ The value of the common stock
Cyclical Capitalization, Defensive Capitalization
Total capitalization, market Capitalization
Market Capitalization, Total Capitalization

Question 20: Classification of common stocks are:
Long, Medium, Short and Penny
Large, Mid, Small, and Penny
Outer, Inner, Investor, and Nickel

Question 21: Very high risk and volatile, susceptible to fraudulent manipulation
Penny stocks
Small Cap Stocks
Mid Cap Stocks
Large Cap Stocks

Question 22: EAFE is typical benchmark index of:
Also these are best bought through a mutual fund
Penny Stocks
Foreign Stocks
Domestic Stocks

Question 23: Corporation's after tax earnings divided by the number of outstanding shares of common stock
Earnings Per Share
Betas
Price to Earnings Ratio

Question 24: Price one share stock divided by the earnings per share of stock over the last 12 months
Price to Earnings (PE) ratio
Betas
Earnings Per Share

Question 25: Used to measure stock risk. If it's lest than one it's riskier, greater than one less risky
Betas
Earnings err Share
Price to Earnings Ratio

Question 26: Based on the assumption that a stock's intrinsic or real value is determined by the company's future earnings and cash flow
Technical Theory
Fundamental Theory
Efficient Market Theory

Question 27: Based on the assumption that a stock's value is determined by the forces of supply and demand in the stock market as a whole
Fundamental Theory
Investment Theory
Technical theory

Question 28: A stock's current market price reflects its true value, sometimes called the random walk theory
Technical Theory
Fundamental Theory
Efficient market Theory

Question 29: Investors are optimistic, more investors are buying stock and the stock market increases
Knight Market
Bull Market
Bear Market

Question 30: Pessimistic Views on economy, more investors are selling stock and so the stock market declines.
Bear Market
Knight Market
Bull Market

Question 31: The additional return investors receive by investing in higher risk stocks vs. risk free investments such as treasury bonds.
Average Return Premium
Market risk Premium
Market Segmentation Premium

Question 32: A market in which an investor purchases financial securities via an investment bank, or other representative, from the issuer of those securities.
Primary Market
Bear Market
Bull Market
Secondary Market

Question 33: A market for existing financial securities that are currently traded among investors
Bull Market
Secondary Market
Bear Market
Primary Market

Question 34: T/F: The Securities and exchange commission registers securities, licenses brokers, and prosecutes for stock fraud and insider trading.
False
N/A
True

Question 35: Excessive buying and selling of securities to generate commissions
Commission charges
Churning
Stock Brokering

Question 36: T/F: Most folks can successfully day trade due to commission costs
True
False
N/A

Question 37: A Request to buy or sell stock at the current market value
Stop order
Discretionary order
Limit order
Market order

Question 38: A request to buy or sell a stock at a specified price or price range
Stop order
Market Order
Discretionary Order
Limit order

Question 39: A request to sell a stock at the next available opportunity after its market price reaches a specified amount
Discretionary order
Stop order
Market order
Limit order

Question 40: Let's the account executive decided when to execute the transaction and at what price
Limit Order
Market Order
Discretionary order
Stop order

Question 41: You must pay the dividend, sell high buy low
Selling short
Option Contract
Futures contracts
Buying on the margin

Question 42: Buy and hold, dollar cost average, direct investment and dividend investment
Tax Considerations
Long term techniques
Short term techniques

Question 43: These are not recommended: Buying stock on margin, selling short, trading in options
Tax Considerations
Longer term techniques
Short term techniques

Question 44: What type of fund should you buy first?
Index
Options
Futures

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