CAPITAL BUDGETING CASE STUDY ANALYSIS ACME Inc. is a multinational conglomerate corporation providing a wide range of goods and services to its customers. As part of its budgeting process for the next year, it has several projects under consideration so it must decide which projects should receive capital budgeting investment funds for this year. As part of the financial analysis department, you have been given several projects to evaluate. However, before you can determine the appropriate valuations of these projects, you need to determine the weighted average cost of capital for the firm since it is used as a threshold of acceptability for projects. Remember that management has a preference in using the market values of the firm's capital structure and believes it current structure (target weight/market weight) is optimal. Market Values of Capital 1. The company has 60,000 bonds with a 30-year life outstanding, with 15 years until maturity. The bonds carry a 10 percent semi-annual coupon, and are currently selling for $874.78. 2. You also have 100,000 shares of $100 par, 9% dividend perpetual preferred stock outstanding. The current market price is $90.00. 3. The company has 5 million shares of common stock outstanding with a currently price of $17.00 per share. The stock exhibits a constant growth rate of 10 percent. The last dividend (Do) was $.65. 4. The risk-free rate is currently 6 percent, and the rate of return on the stock market as a whole is 13 percent. Your stock's beta is 1.22. 5. Your firm only uses bonds for long-term financing. 6. Your firm's federal + state marginal tax rate is 40%. (Ignore any carryforward implications) Depreciation Schedule Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) 5-Year Investment Class Ownership Year Depreciation Schedule 20% 1 2 32% 19% 12% 11% 6% Total = 100% 23456 Project K: This project requires an initial investment of $2,000,000 in equipment which will cost an additional $150,000 to install. The firm will use the attached MACRS depreciation schedule to expense this equipment. Once the equipment is installed, the company will need to increase net working capital by $90,000. The project will last 6 years at which time the market value for the equipment will be $60,000. The project will project a product with a sales price of $35.00 per unit and the variable cost per unit will be $15.00. The fixed costs would be $200,000 per year. Because this project is not close to current products sold by the business, management wants adjust the risk profile of this analysis by imposing a 2 percentage point increase over the firm's WACC. Years 2014 2015 2016 65,000 75,000 2017 2018 85,000 95,000 2019 85,000 Forecasted Units Sold 55,000 Project L: This project requires an initial investment of $2,000,000 in equipment which will cost an additional $75,000 to install. The firm will use the attached MACRS depreciation schedule to expense this equipment. Once the equipment is installed, the company will need to increase net working capital by $100,000. The project will last 6 years at which time the market value for the equipment will be $180,000. The project will project a product with a sales price of $32.00 per unit and the variable cost per unit will be $11.00. The fixed costs would be $110,000 per year. Because this project is very close to current products sold by the business, management wants you to apply the WACC as the discount rate to the project. Years 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2016 48,000 58,000 Forecasted Units Sold 32,000 45,000 75,000 90,000 CAPITAL BUDGETING CASE STUDY ANALYSIS ACME Inc. is a multinational conglomerate corporation providing a wide range of goods and services to its customers. As part of its budgeting process for the next year, it has several projects under consideration so it must decide which projects should receive capital budgeting investment funds for this year. As part of the financial analysis department, you have been given several projects to evaluate. However, before you can determine the appropriate valuations of these projects, you need to determine the weighted average cost of capital for the firm since it is used as a threshold of acceptability for projects. Remember that management has a preference in using the market values of the firm's capital structure and believes it current structure (target weight/market weight) is optimal. Market Values of Capital 1. The company has 60,000 bonds with a 30-year life outstanding, with 15 years until maturity. The bonds carry a 10 percent semi-annual coupon, and are currently selling for $874.78. 2. You also have 100,000 shares of $100 par, 9% dividend perpetual preferred stock outstanding. The current market price is $90.00. 3. The company has 5 million shares of common stock outstanding with a currently price of $17.00 per share. The stock exhibits a constant growth rate of 10 percent. The last dividend (Do) was $.65. 4. The risk-free rate is currently 6 percent, and the rate of return on the stock market as a whole is 13 percent. Your stock's beta is 1.22. 5. Your firm only uses bonds for long-term financing. 6. Your firm's federal + state marginal tax rate is 40%. (Ignore any carryforward implications) Depreciation Schedule Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) 5-Year Investment Class Ownership Year Depreciation Schedule 20% 1 2 32% 19% 12% 11% 6% Total = 100% 23456 Project K: This project requires an initial investment of $2,000,000 in equipment which will cost an additional $150,000 to install. The firm will use the attached MACRS depreciation schedule to expense this equipment. Once the equipment is installed, the company will need to increase net working capital by $90,000. The project will last 6 years at which time the market value for the equipment will be $60,000. The project will project a product with a sales price of $35.00 per unit and the variable cost per unit will be $15.00. The fixed costs would be $200,000 per year. Because this project is not close to current products sold by the business, management wants adjust the risk profile of this analysis by imposing a 2 percentage point increase over the firm's WACC. Years 2014 2015 2016 65,000 75,000 2017 2018 85,000 95,000 2019 85,000 Forecasted Units Sold 55,000 Project L: This project requires an initial investment of $2,000,000 in equipment which will cost an additional $75,000 to install. The firm will use the attached MACRS depreciation schedule to expense this equipment. Once the equipment is installed, the company will need to increase net working capital by $100,000. The project will last 6 years at which time the market value for the equipment will be $180,000. The project will project a product with a sales price of $32.00 per unit and the variable cost per unit will be $11.00. The fixed costs would be $110,000 per year. Because this project is very close to current products sold by the business, management wants you to apply the WACC as the discount rate to the project. Years 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2016 48,000 58,000 Forecasted Units Sold 32,000 45,000 75,000 90,000