Essays on Maturity Date

Rationale for the stock selection

Since the shares of preferred stocks have dividends that must be paid out before bonuses to the common shareholders, they are the class of ownership in a corporation. Thereby, possessing high claims on the company's assets, common stock, and earnings. It does not carry voting rights. Additionally, the preferred shares more rights as compared to the ordinary shares. Therefore, the rationale for selecting this stock rely on the ability of companies to retain the issue options of buying the common shares at an exercise price with a reasonable discount from the prices of the preferred securities. The accounting and ...

Introduction to Convertible Bonds

Convertible bonds consist of the bonds that are easily converted into the stocks. These convertible bonds are issued by the company and like any other normal bonds it has maturity date and face value. The convertible bondholder has all the rights of converting the bond into the predetermined share numbers of the respective company in an identified period. The factors influencing the bondholder converting or not depend on the stock interest rates and prices.

Contract conditions and Payoffs

The convertible bonds market conditions are not standardized and hence making it differ depending on every contract case. The maturity date being one of the ...

Arguments in favour of presenting redeemable preferred stock as a liability

According to SFAS 150, a mandatorily redeemable preferred stock should be reported as liabilities in the statement of financial position. This is unlike other types of preferred stock that are reported as equity in the stockholders’ equity section of the balance sheet. There are several arguments for the presentation of preferred stock as equity. Below is a discussion of why redeemable preferred stock should be presented as equity in the balance sheet. Firstly, the definition of redeemable preferred stock shows that it is more of equity than debt. It is defined as preferred stock that allows the issuer to ...