The Measurement of Stock Development
There are three variables that help measure the stock development in a country; Stock market capitalization to nominal GDP, Stock traded to nominal GDP, Turnover ratio.
First, with respect to measuring the stock market development, Stock trading (stock traded to nominal GDP) can be used. A rapid increase in the trading volume/value of security on an exchange is indicative of interest in the security or the market. The trading volume and value is an important indicator of the level of liquidity, the efficiency of the infrastructural facilities of a stock market and the investment culture of the populace. Liquidity is the ease with which a security is converted into cash. The activities of portfolio managers, pension funds manager, and unit trust managers are capable of stimulating trading and improving liquidity. The level of awareness of investors and the number of listings could have favorable impact on the trading volume. The market float which is the proportion of number of shares available for trading is another influencing factor on trading activities.
Second, Market capitalization is perhaps the most important criterion in assessing the size of a capital market. Market capitalization equals to stock market capitalization divided by nominal GDP. To assess how big a stock market is within the national economy, the market capitalization is usually compared with the nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This depicts the saying that capital market is a barometer with which to measure the state of a national economy. For individual quoted Companies, the size of market capitalization is an indicator of the market value (i.e. investor’s perception or assessment) of the Company. Thus ma...
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...ael Todaro sees three objectives of development.
Producing more ‘life sustaining’ necessities such as food, shelter, and health care and broadening their distribution
Raising standards of living and individual self esteem
Expanding economic and social choice and reducing fear
The UN has developed a widely accepted set of indices to measure development against a mix of composite indicators. UN’s Human Development Index (HDI) measures a country’s average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development:
Life expectancy
Educational attainment
Adjusted real income ($PPP per person).
UN’s Human Poverty Index (HPI) measures deprivation
The percent of people expected to die before age 40
The percent of illiterate adults
The percent of people without access to health services and safe water
The percent of underweight children under five.
Indicators. United Nations, 7 July 2011. Web. 16 Nov. 2011. This data sheet shows the
The first financial ratio of the analysis is the Price to Earnings ratio (“P/E ratio”). The ratio is computed by dividing the price of one share of common stock, by the earnings per share of common stock. This analysis uses diluted earnings per share which assumes the issuance of new stock for all existing stock options. Also, the price of the stock was computed as an average of the fourth quarter high and low stock prices published in the 10K report of each company, because the year end stock prices were not listed for all the companies. Because the P/E ratio measures the relative costliness of different stocks, in relation to their income, it provides a useful place to begin the analysis.
The estimates of cost of capital for equity 6.14% are making by using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to generate forecast of DDM and RIM. This method is defined by the sum of risk free rate plus beta that multiplied with a risk premium. Particularly, the beta, which is a quantitative measure of the volatility of company stock relative to the unstable of the overall market, found in JB HI-FI case at 0.56 (JB HI-FI financial statement 2016). It
Assessing the capital structure of any firm is important for investors attempting to determine if...
The Human Development Index rates each country with a score between 0 and 1, with 1 being the most advanced, globalized country. Factors that are involved in determining a country's HDI are gross domestic production per capita, life expectancy at birth, adult literacy, and the number of persons enrolled in educational institutions. In 1975, Peru's Human Development Index was 0.643. By 2003, the Human Development Index had risen more than one tenth to 0.762. The substantial increase in Peru's HDI is a clear indication that globalization has made a positive impact.
In theory, market capitalisation weighted indices are preferred as compared to equally weighted indices due to the fact that they are superior proxies and are consistent with the true market portfolio. Some practitioners argue that there is a perceived segmentation between the Resources, Financial and Industrial sectors on the JSE and consequently prefer to use the Financial and Industrial Index as an overall market proxy for stocks belonging to this category. Choosing the correct market index in order to regress against, is a vital aspect. Stambaugh (1982) identifies that the CAPM tests are generally insensitive to the choice of market proxy. However, many believe that the broader the selected indices, the better the market proxies. In the UK market, the two main indices used are the FT 100 which is made up of the top 100 companies and the FT All Share Index which is made up of all companies traded on the exchange.
In turn everything in the present and the future is judged through the stocks as they hold a high importance in industrialized economies showing the healthiness of said countries economy. As investing discourages consumer spending over all decreases, it lead...
Entering the 21st. Century – World Development Report 1999/2000. World Bank 2000. Oxford University Press. New York, NY 2000.
The companies I have selected for this assignment is Malaysia Steel Works (KL) Bhd (5098) and Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd. (7153), both of the company is from industrial products sector and its share is traded in main market.
In international parlance, development encompasses the need and the means by which to provide better life for people in poor countries and it includes not only economic growth, although that is crucial, but also human development like...
This essay will detail will examine how development is defined and the relative inaccuracies which surround it. Good, you define terms and introduce the purpose of the essay. As mentioned above, many economists use GNP or GDP to measure. development. The. GNP may be defined as the total value, or output of goods.
Choosing two profitable stocks amongst a myriad of potential alternatives is a daunting task to say the least. In order to narrow my choices from thousands to two, I examined several aspects of companies I was interested in. Among these were, company overview, alpha and beta ratings, price ratios, price charts, and company headlines. After evaluating this information, I chose Intuit INC (INTU) listed on the NASDAQ and Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) listed on the NYSE.
United Nations, (2013) the millennium development goals report 2013 [ONLINE] United Nations. Available at: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/publications/mdgs-report-2013.html [Accessed on 26 December 2013]
What is the stock market? Businesses share part of the company by selling stock, or shares of ownership. When investors own shares of a company, that company is considered public because the general public has an ownership stake in that company. At the high ranks of the companies are the board of directors, whose job it is to make sure the business’s managers are working in the best interests of the multiple owners and shareholders. Companies sell shares so they can expand their businesses and make them better, such as by building manufacturing plants, buying other companies, and developing new and improved products to keep their business profitable. America’s railroads, steel manufacturers, car companies, and telephone companies all started with the help of money from opening up their business to the Stock Market. The Stock Market started in the 1920’s. People who were smart enough to buy them back then could build up a fortune since the market was growing so rapidly. One wh...
United Nations Development Program (UNDP). (2000). Human development report 2000. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.