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Look back to the cash flows for projects F and G in Section 5-3. The cost of capital was assumed to be 10%. Assume that the forecasted cash flows for projects of this type are overstated by 8% on
1. What is the project's NPV, given the projections in Table 10.8?2. Conduct a sensitivity and a scenario analysis of the project. What do these analyses reveal about the project's risks and
Demand for concave utility meters is expanding rapidly, but the industry is highly competitive. A utility meter plant costs $50 million to set up, and it has an annual capacity of 500,000 meters. The
Sulphur Ridge Mining is considering the development of a new calonium mine at Moose Bend in northern Alberta. The mine would require an upfront investment of $110 million and would produce 100,000
Suppose the current price of gold is $1,200 an ounce. Hotshot Consultants advises you that gold prices will increase at an average rate of 12% for the next two years. After that the growth rate will
Use the Beyond the Page feature to access the Excel program for measuring the profitability of the Nodhead project. Reconstruct Table 12.4 assuming a steady-state growth rate of 10% per year. Your
Ohio Building Products (OBP) is considering the launch of a new product which would require an initial investment in equipment of $30,800 (no investment in working capital is required). The forecast
Use the Beyond the Page feature to access the Excel program for calculating the profitability of the Nodhead project. Now suppose that the cash flows from Nodhead's new supermarket are as follows:a.
Column (A) in Table 13.1 shows the monthly return on the British FTSE 100 index from June 2013 through January 2015. Columns (B) and (C) show returns on the stocks of two firms-Executive Cheese and
True or false? a. Most managers tend to be overconfident. b. Psychologists have found that, once people have suffered a loss, they are more relaxed about the possibility of incurring further
Here again are the five lessons of market efficiency. For each lesson give an example showing the lesson's relevance to financial managers. a. Markets have no memory. b. Trust market prices. c. Read
In 2015 Beta Corporation earned gross profits of $760,000.a. Suppose that it is financed by a combination of common stock and $1 million of debt. The interest rate on the debt is 10%, and the
Associated Breweries is planning to market alcohol-free beer. To finance the venture it proposes to make a rights issue at $10 of one new share for each two shares held. (The company currently has
In 2012, the Pandora Box Company made a rights issue at €5 a share of one new share for every four shares held. Before the issue there were 10 million shares outstanding and the share price was
Suppose that in April 2019 Van Dyck Exponents offered 100 shares for sale in an IPO. Half of the shares were sold by the company and the other half by existing shareholders, each of whom sold exactly
In 2014, Entergy paid a regular quarterly dividend of $.83 per share.a. Match each of the following dates.(A1) Friday, July 25 ........................................(B1) Record date(A2) Monday,
Little Oil has outstanding one million shares with a total market value of $20 million. The firm is expected to pay $1 million of dividends next year, and thereafter the amount paid out is expected
Here are key financial data for House of Herring, Inc.:Earnings per share for 2018 .....................................$5.50Number of shares outstanding ..............................40
Which of the following U.S. investors have tax reasons to prefer companies that pay out cash by repurchases instead of cash dividends? Which should not care? a. A pension fund b. An individual
Halfshell Seafood is still generating good profits, but growth is slowing down. How should its CFO decide when to start up a program of paying out cash to stockholders? What questions should the CFO
Investors and financial managers focus more on changes in cash dividends than on the level of cash dividends. Why?
What is meant by "the information content of dividends"? Explain.
Does the good news conveyed by the announcement of a dividend increase mean that a firm can increase its stock price in the long run simply by paying cash dividends? Explain.
MM insisted that payout policy should be analyzed holding debt and investment policy constant. Why? Explain.
Look back one last time at Problem 17. How would you value Little Oil if it paid out $500,000 in cash dividends year in and year out, with no expected growth or decline? Remaining free cash flow
Generous dividend payouts and high price-earnings multiples are correlated positively. Does this imply that paying out cash as dividends instead of repurchases increases share price?
Seashore Salt Co. has surplus cash. Its CFO decides to pay back $4 per share to investors by initiating a regular dividend of $1 per quarter or $4 per year. The stock price jumps to $90 when the
Look again at Problem 3. Assume instead that the CFO announces a stock repurchase of $4 per share instead of a cash dividend. a. What happens to the stock price when the repurchase is announced?
Go back to the first Rational Demiconductor balance sheet. Now assume that Rational wins a lawsuit and is paid $1 million in cash. Its market capitalization rises by that amount. It decides to pay
Dividends and stock price go back to the first Rational Demiconductor balance sheet one more time. Assume that Rational does not win the lawsuit (see Problem 5) and is left with only $1 million in
Mr. Milquetoast admires Warren Buffet and believes that Berkshire Hathaway is a good investment. He wants to invest $100,000, but hesitates because Berkshire Hathaway has never paid a dividend. He
Some types of investors prefer dividend-paying stocks because dividends provide a regular, convenient source of income. Does demand from these investors necessarily lift the prices of dividend-paying
Suppose that Congress sets the top personal tax rate on interest and dividends at 35% and the top rate on realized capital gains at 15%. The corporate tax rate stays at 35%. Compute the difference
Look back at the Johnson & Johnson example in Section 18-1. Suppose Johnson & Johnson increases its long-term debt to $30 billion. It uses the additional debt to repurchase shares. Reconstruct Table
Rajan and Zingales identified four variables that seemed to explain differences in debt ratios in several countries. What are the four variables?
Calculate the weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) for Federated Junkyards of America, using the following information: • Debt: $75,000,000 book value outstanding. The debt is trading at 90%
Consider another perpetual project like the crusher described in Section 19-1. Its initial investment is $1,000,000, and the expected cash inflow is $95,000 a year in perpetuity. The opportunity cost
In December 2014, a 13-month call on the stock of Amazon.com, with an exercise price of $305, sold for $42.50. The stock price was $305. The risk-free interest rate was 1%. How much would you be
Note Figure 20.13 below. Match each diagram, (a) and (b), with one of the following positions:∙ Call buyer∙ Call seller∙ Put buyer∙ Put seller
Use the Black-Scholes program from the Beyond the Page feature to value the Owens Corning warrants described in Section 21-4. The standard deviation of Owens Corning stock was 41% a year and the
Use the put-call parity formula (see Section 20-2) and the one-period binomial model to show that the option delta for a put option is equal to the option delta for a call option minus 1.
In Section 21-1 we used a simple one-step model to value two Google options each with an exercise price of $530. We showed that the call option could be replicated by borrowing $233.22 and investing
Look back at the Malted Herring option in Section 22-2. How did the company's analysts estimate the present value of the project? It turns out that they assumed that the probability of low demand was
Take another look at the perpetual crusher example in Section 22-3. Construct a sensitivity analysis showing how the value of the abandonment put changes depending on the standard deviation of the
What variables are required to use a market-based approach to calculate the probability that a company will default on its debt?
You own a 5% bond maturing in two years and priced at 87%. Suppose that there is a 10% chance that at maturity the bond will default and you will receive only 40% of the promised payment. What is the
You have a B-rated bond. On past evidence, what is the probability that it will continue to be rated B in one year's time? What is the probability that it will have a lower rating?
In 1996, Marriott International made an issue of unusual bonds called liquid yield option notes, or LYONS. The bond matured in 2011, had a zero coupon, and was issued at $532.15. It could have been
Zenco, Inc. is financed by 3 million shares of common stock and by $5 million face value of 8% convertible debt maturing in 2026. Each bond has a face value of $1,000 and a conversion ratio of
True or false? Briefly explain in each case. a. It is better to hold unsecured bonds than secured bonds in the event of default. b. Many new and exotic debt securities are triggered by government
Suppose that the Greymare lease gives the company the option to purchase the bus at the end of the lease period for $1. How would this affect the tax treatment of the lease? Recalculate its value to
In December 2014, 6-month futures on the Australian S&P/ASX 200 Index traded at 5,376. Spot was 5,442. The interest rate was 2.5%, and the dividend yield was about 4.7%. Were the futures fairly
The following table shows 2014 gold futures prices for varying contract lengths. Gold is predominantly an investment good, not an industrial commodity. Investors hold gold because it diversifies
In September 2020 swap dealers were quoting a rate for five-year euro interest rate swaps of 4.5% against Euribor (the short-term interest rate for euro loans). Euribor at the time was 4.1%. Suppose
Price changes of two gold-mining stocks have shown strong positive correlation.Their historical relationship isAverage percentage change in A = .001 + .75 (percentage change in B)Changes in B explain
The following table shows interest rates and exchange rates for the U.S. dollar and the Lilliputian nano. The spot exchange rate is 15 nanos = $1. Complete the missing entries:1 Month 3 Months 1
It is the year 2021 and Pork Barrels Inc. is considering construction of a new barrel plant in Spain. The forecasted cash flows in millions of euros are as follows:The spot exchange rate is $1.2 =
Penny Farthing, the treasurer of International Bicycles, Inc., has noticed that the interest rate in Japan is below the rates in most other countries. She is, therefore, suggesting that the company
In November 2014, an American investor buys 1,000 shares in a Mexican company at a price of 500 pesos each. The share does not pay any dividend. A year later she sells the shares for 550 pesos each.
Suppose that in 2023 one- and two-year interest rates are 5.2% in the United States and 1.0% in Japan. The spot exchange rate is ¥120.22/$. Suppose that one year later interest rates are 3% in both
Airlux Antarctica has current assets of $300 million, current liabilities of $200 million and a crash-sorry-cash ratio of .05. How much cash and marketable securities does it hold?
On average, it takes Microlimp's customers 60 days to pay their bills. If Microlimp has annual sales of $500 million, what is the average value of unpaid bills?
Magic Flutes has total receivables of $3,000, which represent 20 days' sales. Total assets are $75,000. The firm's operating profit margin is 5%. Find the firm's sales-to-assets ratio and return on
In fiscal 2012 and 2013, Caterpillar's financial statements included the following items. What was Caterpillar's cash cycle?$ Millions
Table 29.19 shows the 2016 financial statements for the Executive Cheese Company. Annual depreciation is 10% of fixed assets at the beginning of the year, plus 10% of new investment. The company
Table 29.12 summarizes the 2017 income statement and end-year balance sheet of Drake's Bowling Alleys. Drake's financial manager forecasts a 10% increase in sales and costs in 2018. The ratio of
In 2006 agency bonds sold at a yield of 5.32%, while high-grade tax-exempts of comparable maturity offered 3.7% annually. If an investor receives the same after-tax return from corporate and
Define the following terms: a. LBO b. MBO c. Spin-off d. Carve-out e. Asset sale f. Privatization g. Leveraged restructuring
The Sealed Air leveraged restructuring is described in the Chapter 18 beyond the Page feature. Outline the similarities and differences between the RJR Nabisco LBO and the Sealed Air restructuring.
Suppose that a shareholder can gain effective control of a company with 30% of the shares. Explain how a shareholder might gain control of company Z by setting up a holding company X2 that holds
What is tunneling? Why does the threat of tunneling impede the development of financial markets?
Kampfire, Inc., a very successful manufacturer of camping equipment, is considering going public next month to raise funds to help finance the company's future growth. The financial manager of
The Taussig Company, whose stock price is currently $28, needs to raise $15 million by issuing common stock. Underwriters have informed Taussig's management that it must price the new issue to the
WonderWorld Widgets (WWW) needs to raise $75 million in debt. To issue the debt, WWW must pay its underwriter a fee equal to 3 percent of the issue. The company estimates that other expenses
According to statistics provided by the Federal Reserve, total reserves of commercial banks currently equal $45.4 billion. Required reserves are $45.1 billion, so excess reserves total approximately
Suppose today is January 3, 2012, and investors expect the annual risk-free interest rates in 2016 and 2017 to be: Year 1-Year Rate
The following yields on U.S. Treasury securities were published in The Wall Street Journal on January 28, 2011: Term Rate 6 months........................0.17% 1
Today is January 1, 2012, and according to the results of a recent survey, investors expect the annual interest rates for the years 2015 through 2017 to be: Year One-Year
Donald Jefferson and his wife, Maryanne, live in a modest house located in a Los Angeles suburb. Donald has a job at Pittsford Cast Iron that pays him $50,000 annually. In addition, he and Maryanne
This problem requires you to rework Problem 6-7 using the information that follows. Use the spreadsheet model in File C06 to solve this problem. a. Suppose Kate decides to pay out (1) 50 percent or
The projected taxable income of the Glasgo Corporation, formed in 2012, is indicated in the following table. (Losses are shown in parentheses.) What is the corporate tax liability for each year? Use
Kate Brown has operated her small repair shop as a sole proprietorship for several years, but projected changes in her business's income have led her to consider incorporating. Kate is married and
Margaret Considine has the following situation for the year 2012: salary of $60,000; dividend income of $10,000; interest on IBM bonds of $5,000; interest on State of Florida municipal bonds of
Following are the balance sheets for Batelan Corporation for the fiscal years 2011 and 2012. In the column to the right of the balance sheet amounts, indicate whether the change in the account
Indicate the effects of the transactions listed in the following table on total current assets, current ratio, and net income. Use (+) to indicate an increase, (-) to indicate a decrease, and (0) to
The consolidated balance sheets for Lloyd Lumber Company at the beginning and end of 2012 follow. The company bought $50 million worth of fixed assets. The charge for depreciation in 2012 was $10
Montejo Corporation expects 2012 sales to be $12 million. Operating costs other than depreciation are expected to be 75 percent of sales, and depreciation is expected to be $1.5 million in 2012. All
Data for Argile Textiles' 2011 financial statements are given in Tables 7-1 and 7-2 in the chapter.a. Compute the 2011 values of the following ratios:b. Briefly comment on Argile's 2011 financial
Data for Campsey Computer Company and its industry averages follow.a. Calculate the indicated ratios for Campsey.b. Construct the DuPont equation for both Campsey and the industry.c. Outline
The Finnerty Furniture Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler of high-quality home furnishings, has experienced low profitability in recent years. As a result, the board of directors has replaced the
Cary Corporation's forecasted 2013 financial statements follow, along with industry average ratios.a. Calculate Cary's 2013 forecasted ratios, compare them with the industry average data, and
Donna Jamison was recently hired as a financial analyst by Computron Industries, a manufacturer of electronic components. Her first task was to conduct a financial analysis of the firm covering the
W. F. Bailey Company had a quick ratio of 1.4, a current ratio of 3.0, an inventory turnover of five times, total current assets of $810,000, and cash and equivalents of $120,000 in 2012. If the cost
Noso Textile's 2012 financial statements follow.Noso Textile: Income Statement for December 31, 2012 ($ thousand) Sales....................................................$ 36,000 Operating
Following is Van Auken Lumber's 2012 income statement. Van Auken Lumber: Income Statement for December 31, 2012 ($ thousand) Sales..........................................................$
Following are the 2012 balance sheet and income statement for the Woods Company.Woods Company: Income Statement for the Year EndingDecember 31, 2012 ($
Carol Moerdyk, owner of Carol's Fashion Designs, Inc., is planning to request a line of credit from her bank. She has estimated the following sales forecasts for the firm for parts of 2013 and
Sue Wilson is the new financial manager of Northwest Chemicals (NWC), an Oregon producer of specialized chemicals that are sold to farmers for use in fruit orchards. She is responsible for
Use the model in File C08 to solve this problem. Stendardi Industries' 2012 financial statements are shown in the following table.Stendardi Industries: Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2012 ($
Gordon's Plants has the following partial income statement for 2012: Earnings before interest and taxes.............$ 4,500 Interest.............................................(2,000) Earnings
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