Effects of a company buyin back its bonds?
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Generally speaking, it should have no impact on the market value of the firm since enterprise value is defined by the following formula: E/V = market value of equity plus market value of net debt (debt minus excess cash). However, it can redistribute the market value of each component in the company's capital structure. \n\nIn repaying the debt with excess cash, the company's liquidity is reduced, but net debt is unchanged. Overall leverage is reduced, which is a positive from a bond holder's perspective, and mildly nuetral to positive from a stockholder's perspective. \n\nIn repaying debt with proceeds of less expensive expensive debt, leverage is unchanged, but it is still a positive from a bond holder's perspective (since interest coverage will likely improve somewhat) and mildly positive from a stockholder's perspective (lower interest expense results in higher net income).
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Companies with debt can and do invest in bonds for several reasons:\n\n1) Lack of liquidity on debt issued.  Unlike your car or home loan which commonly has an option to prepay a loan, company bonds sometimes lack a "call option" that allows them to buy back their own bonds. As a result, they must keep the bonds outstanding. \n\n2) Yield pickup.  While you as a person would likely have a "negative spread", where your debt cost more than your investment - a company can get yield pickup by investing in something riskier than their own corporate debt.  This is almost never done, but it is within the realm of possibility.\n\n3) Duration management. Bonds mature at different times.  Let's say you are a company that has a project that will come on stream in four years.  You have financed the project with a 10 year bond.  You probably aren't going to pay someone the entire balance of the bond all up front, so the company would want to invest some of the bond proceeds in a ladder of maturities ahead of the payment calendar before the project can start self-financing after year four. \n\n4) Liquidity on the invested bonds. Unlike bonds that the company issued under its own name, company bonds can be bought and sold on the secondary market - making them relatively liquid investments.  Bonds are a relatively safe, liquid investment that offers better returns (less liquidity) than cash and money market.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GBPUSD=X&t=2y
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i believe is the same as reverse takeover. It is when a private held company buys the mayority interest in a publicly trated company. They do that to avoid the burocratic process that involves filling a new company with the SEC, and the other regulators.
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If the bond was bought at issue the price paid would be RM2 mil.\n\nBut you say it yieled 6.5% and this is equivilent to RM12000 *2 (because it is semi annual) so it must have been bought for 369230.  (i.e. 24000 is 6.5% of 369230).\n\nA yield of 6.1% (24000) is equivilent to a value of 393442.\n\nSo profit is \n\n24000 * 5 = 120000 (coupon payments)\n393442-369230 = 24212 \n\n24212+120000= RM144212 = profit.\n\nThe original yield on the face value is 1.2%
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Try http://www.etrade.com\n\nSimply put: you buy a part of the company looking to profit either in the long (investment) or short term (a short term trade).
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When the interest rates rise companies that have loans will have to pay more in interest. In other words their profits will decrease. Hence the stock in such companies become less attractive and are sold off.\n\nThis can create a domino effect as many investors start to dump the stocks that are not affected by the interest rate rises without fully understanding the fundamentals.\n\nThe global markets are watching closely the US markets and usually will take the lead from it.\n\nThe recent fall was not triggered by interest rates alone but also a sharp decline in commodity prices. Markets such as Australia are immediately affected because of the mining companies in that country. In India there were other factors like rumors regarding Foreign Investors and taxation applicable to them which may have forced them to sell their holdings in India.\n\nFear and greed control the stock markets and sometimes logic does not prevail.
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It deals with the capital structure of the company.  As the company has more debt and less equity, it's more highly levered and thus more risky, leading to a higher P/E.  With more stock than equity, there's less risk, which would probably trade at a lower P/E.
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Definitely not. While the interest you'll have to pay is fixed, the gains from investing in stocks are not (especially IPOs which are extremely risky, usually individual investors stay away from those). If you're going to invest in anything, buy a bond (assuming it's coupon rate is a lot higher than the interest you'll be paying on your loan, which is probably unlikely). As a rule of thumb, investing is for people who have extra money.
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Most important is probably the S&P/Moody's ranking.  The higher/safer the ranking, the lower the interest rate that it has to pay.  Over time, if the ranking changes, then the value of the bond changes.  Changes can come from the company doing well/poorly over time.\n\nGeneral interest rates also determine the value.
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advantages:  \n\nif the companies whose stock you own make more money than generally the price of the stock goes up. \n\nsometimes companies whose stock you own will raise their dividend providing you with more money and causing the price of the stock to rise. \n\nIn the past the average increase in stock values has outperformed the yields in debt instruments.\n\nThere is the chance that by buying a particular stock you could hit a real winner, as buying MSFT during the early 80's or INTC or CSCO. \n\nInvestments in common stocks are very liquid. They can normally be liquidated at a moments notice unlike real estate investments.\n\nOne can invest in common stocks with very little capital. \n\nDisadvantages:\n\nThe companies one invests in may go bankrupt and  one may loose all of the investment\n\nCommon stock investments are subject to market fluctuations that have nothing to do with the particular stocks but instead with other events such as panics. \n\nInvestments in common stocks are effected by government policy which may adversely effect the value of the stocks, such as wage price controls, price caps, interest rate increases, tax increases, etc. \n\nInvestments in a particular company may be impacted by changes in technology.  \n\nInvestments in a particular company may be impacted by management ineptitude, incompetence, and illegal activity
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Probably zero.  If the company truly has no assets, it is likely that it will be treated as having liquidated for federal income tax purposes.  Even if it has not been liquidated, there are tax rules that are designed to make it difficult or impossible to derive a benefit from buying a company that has nothing but a NOL.  I doubt you will find a well-informed buyer who is willing to take a chance that the NOL will be usable in the future.\n\nIf you (or whoever the present owner is) were to start up a new business in the company, and assuming it is not considered to have liquidated, then you might be able to use the loss carryforward.
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Companies do not set a specific amount to purchase per year. Oxy announced plans to repurchase 10 millions shares of its common stock. However, based on market conditions, they may add another 20 million shares to the buyback. Share buybacks are always done at times when the company believes its shares are undervalued, so they are in essence cheap. Also, by taking shares off the market, they increase the EPS (earnings per share) that will be reported the following year.
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No.  You will get some of the collateral back if you request it from the bail bonds office.  Once the premium is paid, no refund.
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If interest rates drop, the company can pay off the bondholders and float a new issue at lower rates. Some bonds are not callable at all or after a certain time frame. This is an important point to check prior to buying bonds.
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I suggest you visit Yahoo finance and check some of the info from the companies that sell their stock shares.
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By buying back its shares in the market and then cancelling them. Often done in UK and US as it then increases earnings per share