Calmex is situated in North India. It specialises in manufacturing overhead water tanks. The management of Calmex has identified a niche market in certain southern cities that need a particular size of water tank not currently manufactured by the company. The company is thus thinking of producing a new type of tank. The survey of companys marketing department reveals that the company could sell 1,20,000 tanks each year for 6 years at a price of Rs 700 each. The companys current facilities cannot be used to manufacture new tanks. Thus it will have to buy new machinery. A manufacturer has offered 2 options to the company. 1st option: Buy 4 small machines with the capacity of manufacturing 30,000 tanks each at Rs 15 million each. The machine operation and manufacturing cost of each tank will be Rs 535. 2nd option: Buy 1 large machine with the capacity of 120000 units p.a. for Rs 120 million. The machine operation and manufacturing cost of each tank will be Rs 400. The company is looking at raising the required capital through a mix of debt, equity and retained earnings in the proportion of 0.5, 0.25 and 0.25 respectively. The company has just declared a dividend of 15% on equity share of face value of Rs 100 each. The expected future growth rate in dividend is 12% p.a. The equity share is currently trading at a price of Rs 168. The bonds of face value Rs 1000 and coupon rate of 16% p.a. is currently trading at Rs 900. Five years remain to maturity and bonds are redeemable at Rs 1100. Assume the applicable tax rate to be 50%. Which option should the company accept? Use alternative techniques of evaluation (NPV, Payback period and Profitability index).

there is no flotation cost in orginal question