Stock Valuation. Start-up Industries is a new firm which has raised $100 million by selling shares of

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Stock Valuation. Start-up Industries is a new firm which has raised $100 million by selling shares of stock. Management plans to earn a 24 percent rate of return on equity, which is more than the 15 percent rate of return available on comparable-risk investments. Half of all earnings will be reinvested in the firm.

a. What will be Start-up’s ratio of market value to book value?

b. How would that ratio change if the firm can earn only a 10 percent rate of return on its investments?

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Study Guide To Accompany Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 9780073012421

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Authors: Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Alan Marcus

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