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Virginia Tech

FIN-3144: Investments: Debt, Equity and Derivatives

Description: Risk, return and portfolio modeling theory, knowledge of financial securities and markets and the information and data contained within them. Introduction to mutual funds, financial securities, and markets. Application of financial computation and modeling through portfolio analysis, market efficiency and performance evaluation, bond valuation, term structure of interest rates, interest rate risk, security analysis and stock valuation, options, Black-Scholes option pricing model, and futures. Pre: Sophomore standing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 73

Average GPA: 2.91 (rounds to B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 15.28%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 3.69%

Daniel Rodriguez202418.6%40.1%18.6%10.6%3.0%9.2%2.632
Jesse R Lineberry202426.3%31.5%31.6%5.3%0.0%5.3%2.821
Tyler J Beason202431.6%39.3%24.3%1.0%0.7%3.0%3.0211
Raman Kumar202426.7%45.1%21.7%3.7%1.1%1.7%2.967
Gregory B Kadlec202427.2%36.5%32.2%0.5%0.0%3.5%2.9221
Derek D Klock202217.8%48.6%22.1%4.6%1.3%5.6%2.8216
Nikolaos Artavanis202023.8%39.6%27.2%8.0%0.0%1.4%2.814
Staff Edelen202423.2%47.9%22.9%1.4%1.8%2.7%2.907
Pengfei Ye202235.1%40.4%19.2%0.8%1.4%3.0%3.084

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Summer I 2024Fall 2024Term050% W