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All of the following is information to solve the question in the bottom (In Millions of Dollars) Cash and marketable securities $ 7.6 Account payable

All of the following is information to solve the question in the bottom (In Millions of Dollars)

Cash and marketable securities

$

7.6

Account payable

$

5.7

Accounts receivable

39.6

Accrual

7.5

Inventory

9.1

Notes payable

1.9

Current assets

$ 56.3

Current Liabilities

$ 15.1

Long-term debt

61.2

Net fixed assets

114.5

Preferred stock

15.0

Common stock

79.5

Total assets

170.8

Total claims

170.8

To begin, Owen reviewed IBTECH's 2019 balance sheet, which is shown in Table 1. Next, she assembled the following data:

  • IBTECH's long-term debt consists of 9.5 percent coupon, semiannual payment bonds with fifteen year remaining to maturity. The bonds last traded at a price of $891 per $1,000 par value bond. The bonds are not callable and they are rated BBB.
  • The founders have an aversion to short-term debt, so the firm uses such debt only to fund cyclical working capital needs.
  • IBTECH' federal-plus-state tax rate is 25 percent.
  • The company’s preferred stock pays a dividend of $2.50 per quarter and has a par value of $100. It is non-callable and perpetual, and it is traded in over-the-counter market at a current price of $104 per share. A flotation cost of $2 per share would be required on a new issue of preferred stock.
  • The firm's last dividend (D0) was $1.09, and dividends are expected to grow at about a 10 percent rate in the foreseeable future. Some analyst expect the company' recent growth rate to continue, other expect it to go to zero as new competition enter the market, but the majority anticipate that a growth rate of about 10 percent will continue indefinitely.
  • An important minority of analyst have noted that over the last few years, the company has had a 14 percent average return on equity (ROE) and has paid out about 25 percent of its net income as dividends. They believe the firm' expected future growth rate, g should be based on this information and used to estimate the cost of capital.
  • The firm's per share dividend payment over the past five year has been a follow

Year

Dividend

2015

0.72

2016

0.75

2017

0.85

2018

1.00

2019

1.09

  • IBTECH’s common stock now sells at a price of about $25 per share. The company has 5 million common shares outstanding.
  • The current yield on long-term T-bonds is 8 percent, and a prominent investment-banking firm has recently estimated that the market risk premium is six percentage points over Treasury bond. The firm' historical beta, as measured by several analysts who follow the stock, is 1.2.
  • The required rate of return on an average (A-rated) company's long-term debt is 10 percent.
  • IBTECH is forecasting reinvested earnings of $1,800,000 and depreciation of 4,500,000 for the coming year.
  • IBTECH's investment banker believes that a new common tack issue would involve total flotation costs - including underwriting costs, market pressure from increased supply, and market pressure from negative signaling effect- of 30 percent.
  • The market value target capital structure call for 30 percent long-term debt, 10 percent preferred stock, and 60 percent common stock.
  • Question
  • Graph the Marginal Cost of Capital (see question 10) along with the Investment Opportunity Set (IOS).
    1. What is the optimal Capital Budget?
    2. Which projects should be accepted and which ones should be rejected? Explain

If you could show it in excel format that would be great.


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