F2 Q13-15

13.

You are working on a big new idea for your firm. You have projected an EBIT of $5 million starting next year (t = 1) with a growth rate of 3.50% over the foreseeable future thereafter. This endeavor will require a substantial investment and you will have to convince investors to provide you the capital to do so. Your firm will consider all types of financing options, but the first critical step in your analysis is figuring out the present value of the cash flows of the new business. Your research has revealed the following information: similar businesses have a beta asset of 2.00, the risk-free rate is 2.00% and the expected market risk premium (the average difference between the market return and the risk-free rate) is 3.50%. The corporate tax rate is 35% and interest payments on debt are tax deductible. You are tasked to figure out the value of the business under various financing alternatives, including long-term loan/debt. You first consider a loan of $25 million in perpetuity at an interest rate of 4%. Assuming that the chances of bankruptcy are negligible with this amount of ongoing debt on your balance sheet, if you finance the new idea with this amount of debt and the remainder with equity, the value of the new business will be:

a. Lower than an all-equity financed business.

b. Identical to an all-equity financed business.

c. Higher than an all-equity financed business.

14.

You are working on a big new idea for your firm. You have projected an EBIT of $5 million starting next year (t = 1) with a growth rate of 3.50% over the foreseeable future thereafter. This endeavor will require a substantial investment and you will have to convince investors to provide you the capital to do so. Your firm will consider all types of financing options, but the first critical step in your analysis is figuring out the present value of the cash flows of the new business. Your research has revealed the following information: similar businesses have a beta asset of 2.00, the risk-free rate is 2.00% and the expected market risk premium (the average difference between the market return and the risk-free rate) is 3.50%. The corporate tax rate is 35% and interest payments on debt are tax deductible. You are tasked to figure out the value of the business under various financing alternatives, including long-term loan/debt. You are considering a loan of $25 million in perpetuity at an interest rate of 4%. Realizing that the chances of bankruptcy are negligible with this amount of ongoing debt on your balance sheet, and the riskiness of the tax shield of debt is the same as the riskiness of debt, you are seriously contemplating recommending taking on the debt. An estimate of the value of new business will be (Enter the nearest rounded dollar number without any $ or comma sign):

15.

You are working on a big new idea for your firm. You have projected an EBIT of $5 million starting next year (t = 1) with a growth rate of 3.50% over the foreseeable future thereafter. This endeavor will require a substantial investment and you will have to convince investors to provide you the capital to do so. Your firm will consider all types of financing options, but the first critical step in your analysis is figuring out the present value of the cash flows of the new business. Your research has revealed the following information: similar businesses have a beta asset of 2.00, the risk-free rate is 2.00% and the expected market risk premium (the average difference between the market return and the risk-free rate) is 3.50%. The corporate tax rate is 35% and interest payments on debt are tax deductible. You are tasked to figure out the value of the business under various financing alternatives, including long-term loan/debt. You are considering a loan of $25 million in perpetuity at an interest rate of 4%. Realizing that the chances of bankruptcy are negligible with this amount of ongoing debt on your balance sheet, and the riskiness of the tax shield of debt is the same as the riskiness of debt, you are seriously contemplating recommending taking on the debt. What will be the price per share of equity of the firm if you still issue 1,500,000 shares? (Enter the nearest rounded dollar number without any $ or comma sign):

Answers to previous questions

. What is the value of the cash flows of this new business assuming it is all equity financed?	59,090,909
. You are tasked to figure out the value of the business under various financing alternatives, starting with an all-equity structure with 1,500,000 shares outstanding. Your calculations suggest that the P/E ratio of the new business will be	18.18