Security and Fixed Income Analysis

Catalog description

This course examines the analysis of equity and fixed income securities. Equity security analysis topics include characteristics of equity markets, types of equity securities and their characteristics, fundamental analysis, and valuation of individual equity using dividend discount, free cash flow, and relative valuation techniques. Fixed income securities analysis topics include the types and characteristics of fixed-income securities, fixed income markets, yield spread analysis, analysis of credit risk and interest rate risk, fixed income valuation and return analysis, and valuing bonds with embedded options. Prerequisite: FIN 360 with a grade of C or higher and FIN 370. (Offered spring term.)