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principles corporate finance

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Consider Alcatel-Lucent’s project in Problem 6.a. What is Alcatel-Lucent’s unlevered cost of capital?b. What is the unlevered value of the project?c. What are the interest tax shields from the
Consider Alcatel-Lucent’s project in Problem 6.a. What is the free cash flow to equity for this project?b. What is its NPV computed using the FTE method? How does it compare with the NPV based on
In year 1, AMC will earn $1600 before interest and taxes. The market expects these earnings to grow at a rate of 3% per year. The firm will make no net investments (i.e., capital expenditures will
XL Sports is expected to generate free cash flows of $10.9 million per year. XL has permanent debt of $40 million, a tax rate of 25%, and an unlevered cost of capital of 10%.a. What is the value of
How does the assumption on future improvements in working capital affect your answer to Problem 13?
Use your answers from Problems 17 and 18 to infer the value today of the projected improvements in working capital under the assumptions that Ideko’s market share will increase by 0.5%per year and
Redo Problem 13, but assume that Kay must pay a corporate tax rate of 35%, and that investors pay no taxes.
What is AMC’s share price prior to the share repurchase?AMC Corporation currently has an enterprise value of $400 million and $100 million in excess cash. The firm has 10 million shares outstanding
What would AMC’s share price be after the repurchase if its enterprise value goes up? What would AMC’s share price be after the repurchase if its enterprise value declines?AMC Corporation
Suppose AMC management expects good news to come out. Based on your answers to Problems 17 and 18, if management wants to maximize AMC’s ultimate share price, will they undertake the repurchase
Given your answer to Problem 19, what effect would you expect an announcement of a share repurchase to have on the stock price? Why?AMC Corporation currently has an enterprise value of $400 million
In your role as a consultant at a wealth management firm, you have been assigned a very powerful client who holds 1 million shares of Cisco Systems, Inc., purchased on February 28, 2003. In
What is the difference between internal growth rate and sustainable growth rate?
Jim’s expects sales to grow by 10% next year. Using the percent of sales method, forecast (see MyFinanceLab for the data in Excel format)·.a. Costsb. Depreciationc. Net incomed. Cashe. Accounts
Assume that Jim’s pays out 90% of its net income. Use the percent of sales method to forecast (see MyFinanceLab for the data in Excel format):a. Stockholders’ equityb. Accounts payable Use the
What is the amount of net new financing needed for Jim’s (see MyFinanceLab for the data in Excel format)?Use the following income statement and balance sheet for Jim ’s Espresso: Income Statement
If Jim’s adjusts its payout policy to 70% of net income, how will the net new financing change?Use the following income statement and balance sheet for Jim ’s Espresso: Income Statement Balance
Global expects sales to grow by 8% next year. Using the percent of sales method, forecast (see MyFinanceLab for the data in Excel format):a. Costs except depreciationb. Depreciationc. Net incomed.
What is the amount of net new financing needed for Global (see MyFinanceLab for the data in Excel format)?Use the following income statement and balance sheet for Global Corp.: Figures in $ millions
If Global decides that it will limit its net new financing to no more than $9 million, how will this affect its payout policy (see MyFinanceLab for the data in Excel format)?Use the following income
The following information is from Dell’s 2012 Income statement and balance sheet (numbers are in $ millions). Use it to compute Dell’s cash conversion cycle. Sales 56,940 Cost of Goods Sold
Describe “just-in-time” inventory management.
Does an increase in a firm’s cash cycle necessarily mean that the firm is managing its cash poorly?
Explain “just-in-time” (JIT) inventory management and its associated impact on the firm’s inventory turnover?
Assume Evco, Inc., has a current price of $50 and will pay a $2 dividend in one year, and its equity cost of capital is 15%. What price must you expect it to sell for right after paying the dividend
Anle Corporation has a current price of $20, is expected to pay a dividend of $1 in one year, and its expected price right after paying that dividend is $22.a. What is Anle’s expected dividend
Suppose Acap Corporation will pay a dividend of $2.80 per share at the end of this year and $3 per share next year. You expect Acap’s stock price to be $52 in two years. If Acap’s equity cost of
Krell Industries has a share price of $22 today. If Krell is expected to pay a dividend of $0.88 this year, and its stock price is expected to grow to $23.54 at the end of the year, what is Krell’s
NoGrowth Corporation currently pays a dividend of $2 per year, and it will continue to pay this dividend forever. What is the price per share if its equity cost of capital is 15% per year?Appendix
Summit Systems will pay a dividend of $1.50 this year. If you expect Summit’s dividend to grow by 6% per year, what is its price per share if its equity cost of capital is 11%?Appendix
Dorpac Corporation has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Dorpac’s equity cost of capital is 8%, and its dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate.a. What is the expected growth rate of Dorpac’s
In mid-2018, some analysts recommended that General Electric (GE) suspend its dividend payments to preserve cash needed for investment. Suppose you expected GE to stop paying dividends for two years
In 2006 and 2007, Kenneth Cole Productions (KCP) paid annual dividends of $0.72. In 2008, KCP paid an annual dividend of $0.36, and then paid no further dividends through 2012. KCP was acquired at
Cooperton Mining just announced it will cut its dividend from $4 to $2.50 per share and use the extra funds to expand. Prior to the announcement, Cooperton’s dividends were expected to grow at a 3%
Procter and Gamble (PG) paid an annual dividend of $3.40 in 2021. You expect PG to increase its dividends by 8% per year for the next five years (through 2026), and thereafter by 3% per year. If the
Colgate-Palmolive Company has just paid an annual dividend of $1.76. Analysts are predicting dividends to grow by $0.12 per year over the next five years. After then, Colgate’s earnings are
What is the value of a firm with initial dividend Div, growing for n years (i.e., until year n + 1) at rate g1 and after that at rate g 2 forever, when the equity cost of capital is r ?Appendix
Halliford Corporation expects to have earnings this coming year of $3 per share. Halliford plans to retain all of its earnings for the next two years. For the subsequent two years, the firm will
Alphabet (GOOGL) has yet to pay a dividend, but in spring 2022 it announced it would repurchase$70 billion worth of shares over the year. If the amount spent on share repurchases were expected to
Maynard Steel plans to pay a dividend of $3 this year. The company has an expected earnings growth rate of 4% per year and an equity cost of capital of 10%.a. Assuming Maynard’s dividend payout
Benchmark Metrics, Inc. (BMI), an all-equity financed firm, reported EPS of $5.00 in 2008.Despite the economic downturn, BMI is confident regarding its current investment opportunities.But due to the
Heavy Metal Corporation is expected to generate the following free cash flows over the next five years:After then, the free cash flows are expected to grow at the industry average of 4% per
You notice that PepsiCo (PEP) has a stock price of $170.51 and EPS of $7.31. Its competitor, the Coca-Cola Company (KO), has EPS of $2.37. Estimate the value of a share of Coca-Cola stock using only
Consider the following data for the airline industry for July 2018. Discuss the potential challenges of using multiples to value an airline.Appendix Market Enterprise Forward Company Name
Suppose Alaska Air (ALK) had 123 million shares outstanding in July 2018. Estimate Alaska Air’s share value using each of the five valuation multiples in Problem 28, based on the median valuation
You read in the paper that Summit Systems from Problem 6 has revised its growth prospects and now expects its dividends to grow at 3% per year forever.a. What is the new value of a share of Summit
In early 2022, Coca-Cola Company (KO) had a share price of $64, and had paid a dividend of$1.68 for the prior year. Suppose you expect Coca-Cola to raise this dividend by approximately 6% per year in
Roybus, Inc., a manufacturer of flash memory, just reported that its main production facility in Taiwan was destroyed in a fire. While the plant was fully insured, the loss of production will
Apnex, Inc., is a biotechnology firm that is about to announce the results of its clinical trials of a potential new cancer drug. If the trials were successful, Apnex stock will be worth$70 per
The figure on page 357 shows the one-year return distribution for RCS stock. Calculatea. The expected return.b. The standard deviation of the return.Appendix Probability (%) 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0
The following table shows the one-year return distribution of Startup, Inc. Calculatea. The expected return.b. The standard deviation of the return.Appendix Probability Return 40% 20% 20% 10% 10%
Characterize the difference between the two stocks in Problems 1 and 2. What tradeoffs would you face in choosing one to hold?Appendix
You bought a stock one year ago for $50 per share and sold it today for $55 per share. It paid a$1 per share dividend today.a. What was your realized return?b. How much of the return came from
Repeat Problem 4 assuming that the stock fell $5 to $45 instead.a. Is your capital gain different? Why or why not?b. Is your dividend yield different? Why or why not?Appendix
Using the data in the following table, calculate the return for investing in Boeing stock (BA)from January 2, 2008, to January 2, 2009, and also from January 3, 2011, to January 3, 2012, assuming all
The last four years of returns for a stock are as follows:a. What is the average annual return?b. What is the variance of the stock’s returns?c. What is the standard deviation of the stock’s
Assume that historical returns and future returns are independently and identically distributed and drawn from the same distribution.a. Calculate the 95% confidence intervals for the expected annual
Using the data in Table 10.2,a. What was the average annual return of Microsoft stock from 2005–2021?b. What was the annual volatility for Microsoft stock from 2005–2021?Appendix
Using the data in Table 10.2,a. What was the average dividend yield for the S&P 500 from 2005–2021?b. What was the volatility of the dividend yield?c. What was the average annual return of the S&P
Consider an investment with the following returns over four years:a. What is the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for this investment over the four years?b. What is the average annual return of the
Download the spreadsheet from MyLab Finance that contains historical monthly prices and dividends (paid at the end of the month) for Ford Motor Company stock (Ticker: F) from August 1994 to August
Using the same data as in Problem 12, compute thea. Average monthly return over this period.b. Monthly volatility (or standard deviation) over this period.Appendix
Explain the difference between the average return you calculated in Problem 13(a) and the realized return you calculated in Problem 12. Are both numbers useful? If so, explain why.Appendix
Compute the 95% confidence interval of the estimate of the average monthly return you calculated in Problem 13(a).Appendix
How does the relationship between the average return and the historical volatility of individual stocks differ from the relationship between the average return and the historical volatility of large,
Download the spreadsheet from MyLab Finance containing the data for Figure 10.1.a. Compute the average return for each of the assets from 1929 to 1940 (The Great Depression).b. Compute the variance
Using the data from Problem 17, repeat your analysis over the 1990s.a. Which asset was riskiest?b. Compare the standard deviations of the assets in the 1990s to their standard deviations in the Great
What if the last three decades had been “normal”? Download the spreadsheet from MyLab Finance containing the data for Figure 10.1.a. Calculate the arithmetic average return on the S&P 500 from
Using the data in Problem 20, calculatea. The expected overall payoff of each bank.b. The standard deviation of the overall payoff of each bank.Appendix
Consider an economy with two types of firms, S and I. S firms all move together. I firms move independently. For both types of firms, there is a 60% probability that the firms will have a 15% return
Using the data in Problem 23, plot the volatility as a function of the number of firms in the two portfolios.Appendix
Explain why the risk premium of a stock does not depend on its diversifiable risk.Appendix
Identify each of the following risks as most likely to be systematic risk or diversifiable risk:a. The risk that your main production plant is shut down due to a tornado.b. The risk that the economy
Download the spreadsheet from MyLab Finance containing the realized return of the S&P 500 from 1929–2008. Starting in 1929, divide the sample into four periods of 20 years each. For each 20-year
What is an efficient portfolio?Appendix
What does the beta of a stock measure?Appendix
You turn on the news and find out the stock market has gone up 10%. Based on the data in Table 10.6, by how much do you expect each of the following stocks to have gone up or down:(1) Starbucks, (2)
Based on the data in Table 10.6, estimate which of the following investments you expect to lose the most in the event of a severe market down turn: (1) A $2000 investment in Hormel, (2) a$1500
Suppose the market portfolio is equally likely to increase by 30% or decrease by 10%.a. Calculate the beta of a firm that goes up on average by 43% when the market goes up and goes down by 17% when
Suppose the risk-free interest rate is 4%.a. i. Use the beta you calculated for the stock in Problem 33(a) to estimate its expected return.ii. How does this compare with the stock’s actual expected
Suppose the market risk premium is 5% and the risk-free interest rate is 4%. Using the data in Table 10.6, calculate the expected return of investing ina. Starbucks’s stock.b. Hormel’s stock.c.
Given the results to Problem 35, why don’t all investors hold Avis Budget Group’s stock rather than Hormel’s stock?Appendix
Suppose the market risk premium is 6.5% and the risk-free interest rate is 5%. Calculate the cost of capital of investing in a project with a beta of 1.2.Appendix
State whether each of the following is inconsistent with an efficient capital market, the CAPM, or both:a. A security with only diversifiable risk has an expected return that exceeds the risk-free
Consider a world that only consists of the three stocks shown in the following table:a. Calculate the total value of all shares outstanding currently.b. What fraction of the total value outstanding
There are two ways to calculate the expected return of a portfolio: either calculate the expected return using the value and dividend stream of the portfolio as a whole, or calculate the weighted
Using the data in the following table, estimate (a) the average return and volatility for each stock,(b) the covariance between the stocks, and (c) the correlation between these two stocks.Appendix
Using your estimates from Problem 5, calculate the volatility (standard deviation) of a portfolio that is 70% invested in stock A and 30% invested in stock B.Appendix
Using the data from Table 11.3, what is the covariance between the stocks of Alaska Air and Southwest Airlines?Appendix
Suppose two stocks have a correlation of 1. If the first stock has an above average return this year, what is the probability that the second stock will have an above average return?Appendix
Arbor Systems and Gencore stocks both have a volatility of 40%. Compute the volatility of a portfolio with 50% invested in each stock if the correlation between the stocks is (a) +1,(b) 0.50, (c) 0,
Suppose Wesley Publishing’s stock has a volatility of 60%, while Addison Printing’s stock has a volatility of 30%. If the correlation between these stocks is 25%, what is the volatility of the
Suppose Avon and Nova stocks have volatilities of 50% and 25%, respectively, and they are perfectly negatively correlated. What portfolio of these two stocks has zero risk?Appendix
Suppose Tex stock has a volatility of 40%, and Mex stock has a volatility of 20%. If Tex and Mex are uncorrelated,a. Construct a portfolio with positive weights in both stocks and that has the same
Using the data in Table 11.1,a. Compute the annual returns for a portfolio with 25% invested in North Air, 25% invested in West Air, and 50% invested in Tex Oil.b. What is the lowest annual return
Using the data from Table 11.3, what is the volatility of an equally weighted portfolio of Microsoft, Alaska Air, and Ford Motor stock?Appendix
Suppose the average stock has a volatility of 50%, and the correlation between pairs of stocks is 20%. Estimate the volatility of an equally weighted portfolio with (a) 1 stock, (b) 30 stocks,(c)
What is the volatility (standard deviation) of an equally weighted portfolio of stocks within an industry in which the stocks have a volatility of 50% and a correlation of 40% as the portfolio
Consider an equally weighted portfolio of stocks in which each stock has a volatility of 40%, and the correlation between each pair of stocks is 20%.a. What is the volatility of the portfolio as the
Stock A has a volatility of 65% and a correlation of 10% with your current portfolio. Stock B has a volatility of 30% and a correlation of 25% with your current portfolio. You currently hold both

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