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Comment by halayli

4 months ago

if you have $100M and you need a $1M, you'd use your credit line and borrow $1M and pay it back from interests coming from $100M. it's not that different in corp.

That doesn't make any sense.

You'll be paying a higher rate of interest on your loan than you're receiving on your cash.

You'd be better off taking the $1m directly out of your cash pile.

  • That depends heavily on the terms of the loan you can secure and how you choose to invest the cash.

    When you borrow $1M against $100M in cash or assets its generally considered a very low risk loan, meaning you'll likely get good terms and comparatively low rates.

  • Not necessarily. You can get an interest rate lower than your investment return rate.

    • When interest rates were particularly low years ago, we saw a large number of companies issuing bonds and then using the money to just do stock buybacks.

  • You need to consider secured line of credit vs unsecured and the interest rate is significantly different as one is backed by collateral and the other is not.