After completing their degree at UTRGV in $1992,$ Jorge Lopez, Finance Major and James Marcos, IT major pursued their dream of launching a computer games design company. Early $1993,$ the friends started preparing Marco$$s house garage to become the first location of their company, Digital Studios partnership. Throughout the years, Digital Studios passed through several successes and failures. Within the period $1993-1996,$ Digital Studios exploded significantly with regard to sales and reputation. They specialized in producing and designing kids$$ games based on animation and cartoon characters. Early $1997,$ Digital Studios encountered a hard to reject opportunity. Disney Inc. was searching for a small company to partnership with in order to produce a computer game for their new star Hercules. Digital Studios did not have enough resources and capital to undertake this opportunity. However, with the unbelievably growing IT industry towards late $1990$s$,$ the friends immediately thought of going public.

It is May $1$st $1997,$ the most recent value estimate for Digital Studios is $$20$ Million. The company is going to be incorporated and part of its equity is going to be sold to the public. The friends decided to keep $60\%$ of the firm$$s voting rights. However, to raise the fund required to undertake Disney$$s opportunity, the company had to sell $80\%$ of its equity to the public. The underwriter proposed to register two types of shares to accommodate their request, Class A to be issued to the public and Class B to be issued to the founders. The company is going to issue $20$ million shares in total. If each share of Class A gets $1$ vote, how many votes does each share of Class B get?

$4$ votes

$6$ votes

$2$ votes

$8$ votes

at the initial public offering time, potential shareholders were trying to estimate a fair value $($fair price$)$ to digital studios share. Previous year earnings per share was $ $2.$ The price earnings ratio of Lion digital production Inc., the main competitor of digital studio, is $10.$ What would be a fair share price of digital studios?

$ $5$

$ $20$

$ $25$

$ no enough information

$1997,$ After paying all registration fees to the exchange, and also the costs of the IPO, Digital Studios Inc. management thought that additional funding is needed. Jorge suggested issuing corporate bonds to mature in $15$ years. The company issued the bonds at par, the total size of the bond issue was $$10$ million. If digital studios bond pays coupon semiannually, and the YTM at issuance is $5\%.$ What is the amount of the semiannual coupon payment?

$ $25$

$ $50$

$ $75$

$ $12\mathrm{.}5$

shortly after the digital studios incorporation went public, the management announced the following dividends policy. Dividends at year $1=$ $ $1.$ Dividends at year $2=$ $ $1\mathrm{.}5.$ Dividends at year $3=$ $ $1\mathrm{.}9.$ and after that the company is expected to increase its annual dividends by $3\%$ indefinitely. What is the stock price estimate at that time if the required rate of return was$7\%?$

$ $41\mathrm{.}12$

$ $43\mathrm{.}73$

$ $38\mathrm{.}77$

$ $23\mathrm{.}73$

at the beginning of $2002,$ Digital Studio dividends just paid was $ $1\mathrm{.}96.$ Digital Studios expected to grow at a higher rate and the management wanted to share the good days with shareholders. Digital Studios decided to increase dividends by $5\%$ annually. What is the stock price today if the required rate of return is $7\%?$

$ $98$

$ $29\mathrm{.}4$

$ $102\mathrm{.}9$

$ $41\mathrm{.}16$

in $2007,$ Mr$.$ David $$an investor and one of Digital Studios bondholders$$ wanted to sell his bonds that he acquired back in $1997.$ What would be the current market price for the bond assuming the following term structure of similar risk bonds?

$ $742\mathrm{.}39$

$ $539\mathrm{.}16$

$ $806\mathrm{.}96$

$ $957\mathrm{.}35$

if Mr$.$ David owns $1000$ bonds, how much money would he receive in total by selling all his bonds?

$ $742,390$

$ $539,157$

$ $806,956$

$ $957,349$

Mr$.$ David has an outstanding credit card payment of $ $20,000$ with APR of $6\%.$ If he is going to keep paying the minimum monthly payment of $ $250.$ How long will it take Mr$.$ David to pay off the entire credit balance?

$161\mathrm{.}75$ months

$102\mathrm{.}42$ months

$30\mathrm{.}17$ months

$67\mathrm{.}46$ months

Mr$.$ David is $35$ years old and wants to save for his retirement. He decided to save half the money that he got from selling his bonds at a portfolio that earns $3\mathrm{.}5\%.$ How much will he have in his retirement account when he turns $60?$

$ $1,131,225\mathrm{.}11$

$ $877,232\mathrm{.}99$

$ $794,265\mathrm{.}93$

$ $953,517\mathrm{.}36$

Mr$.$ David wants to give his daughter a gift when she turns $21.$ Currently she is $6$ years old. He is thinking of saving $ $1250$ a month in an investment that pays an annual rate of $4\%.$ How much will he gift her when she turns $21?$

$ $19,193\mathrm{.}43$

$ $307,613\mathrm{.}11$

$ $25,029\mathrm{.}48$

$ $363,447\mathrm{.}37$

Now it is $2008,$ the whole market is struggling to overcome the financial crisis. Digital studios decided to adopt a constant dividends policy. The management announced that it is going to pay $ $5$ annual dividends indefinitely. What is the stock price if the required rate of return is $12\%?$

$ $55\mathrm{.}56$

$ $83\mathrm{.}33$

$ $41\mathrm{.}67$

$ $166\mathrm{.}67$