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(5-8) Thatcher Corporation's bonds will mature in 10 years. The bonds have a face value of $1,000 Yield to Maturity and an 8% coupon rate, paid semiannually. The price of the bonds is $1,100. The bonds and Call with are callable in 5 years at a call price of $1,050. What is their yield to maturity? What is Payments their yield to call? a. What are investment returns? What is the return on an investment that costs $1,000 and is sold after 1 year for $1,060 ? b. Graph the probability distribution for the bond returns based on the 5 scenarios. What might the graph of the probability distribution look like if there were an infinite number of scenarios (i.e., if it were a continuous distribution and not a discrete distribution)? c. Use the scenario data to calculate the expected rate of return for the 10 -year zero coupon Treasury bonds during the next year. d. What is the stand-alone risk? Use the scenario data to calculate the standard deviation of the bond's return for the next year. e. Your client has decided that the risk of the bond portfolio is acceptable and wishes to leave it as it is. Now your client has asked you to use historical returns to estimate (5-7) Renfro Rentals has issued bonds that have a 10% coupon rate, payable semiannually. The Bond Valuation bonds mature in 8 years, have a face value of $1,000, and a yield to maturity of 8.5%. with Semiannual What is the price of the bonds? Payments (7-13) Dozier Corporation is a fast-growing supplier of office products. Analysts project the Free Cash Flow following free cash flows (FCFs) during the next 3 years, after which FCF is expected to Valuation grow at a constant 7% rate. Dozier's weighted average cost of capital is WACC =13%. a. What is Dozier's horizon value? (Hint: Find the value of all free cash flows beyond Year 3 discounted back to Year 3.) b. What is the current value of operations for Dozier? c. Suppose Dozier has $10 million in marketable securities, $100 million in debt, and 10 million shares of stock. What is the intrinsic price per share? You have also gathered historical returns for the past 10 years for Blandy and Gourmange Corporation (a producer of gourmet specialty foods), and the stock market. The risk-free rate is 4%, and the market risk premium is 5%. calculated the rate of return on 10-year zero coupon Treasury bonds for each scenario. The probabilities and returns are shown here: the standard deviation of Blandy's stock returns. (Note: Many analysts use 4 to 5 years of monthly returns to estimate risk, and many use 52 weeks of weekly returns; some even use a year or less of daily returns. For the sake of simplicity, use Blandy's 10 annual returns.) f. Your client is shocked at how much risk Blandy stock has and would like to reduce the level of risk. You suggest that the client sell 25\% of the Blandy stock and create a portfolio with 75% Blandy stock and 25% in the high-risk Gourmange stock. How do you suppose the client will react to replacing some of the Blandy stock with highrisk stock? Show the client what the proposed portfolio return would have been in each year of the sample. Then calculate the average return and standard deviation using the portfolio's annual returns. How does the risk of this two-stock portfolio compare with the risk of the individual stocks if they were held in isolation? g. Explain correlation to your client. Calculate the estimated correlation between Blandy and Gourmange. Does this explain why the portfolio standard deviation was less than Blandy's standard deviation? h. Suppose an investor starts with a portfolio consisting of one randomly selected stock. As more and more randomly selected stocks are added to the portfolio, what happens to the portfolio's risk? i. (1) Should portfolio effects influence how investors think about the risk of individual stocks? (2) If you decided to hold a one-stock portfolio and consequently were exposed to more risk than diversified investors, could you expect to be compensated for all of your risk; that is, could you earn a risk premium on that part of your risk that you could have eliminated by diversifying? j. According to the Capital Asset Pricing Model, what measures the amount of risk that an individual stock contributes to a well-diversified portfolio? Define this measurement. k. What is the Security Market Line (SML)? How is beta related to a stock's required rate of return? (7-16) Crisp Cookware's common stock is expected to pay a dividend of $3 a share at the end Constant Dividend of this year (D1=$3.00); its beta is 0.8 . The risk-free rate is 5.2%, and the market risk Growth Valuation premium is 6%. The dividend is expected to grow at some constant rate g, and the stock currently sells for $40 a share. Assuming the market is in equilibrium, what does the market believe will be the stock's price at the end of 3 years (i.e., what is P^3 )? Assume that you recently graduated and landed a job as a financial planner with Cicero Services, an investment advisory company. Your first client recently inherited some assets and has asked you to evaluate them. The client owns a bond portfolio with $1 million invested in zero coupon Treasury bonds that mature in 10 years. 47 The client also has $2 million invested in the stock of Blandy, Inc., a company that produces meat-and-potatoes frozen dinners. Blandy's slogan is, "Solid food for shaky times." Unfortunately, Congress and the president are engaged in an acrimonious dispute over the budget and the debt ceiling. The outcome of the dispute, which will not be resolved until the end of the year, will have a big impact on interest rates one year from now. Your first task is to determine the risk of the client's bond portfolio. After consulting with the economists at your firm, you have specified five possible scenarios for the resolution of the dispute at the end of the year. For each scenario, you have estimated the probability of the scenario occurring and the impact on interest rates and bond prices if the scenario occurs. Given this information, you have