Suppose you have been hired as a financial consultant to Defense Electronics, Inc. (DEl), a large, publicly traded firm that is the market share leader in radar detection systems (RDSs). The company is looking at setting up a manufacturing plant overseas to produce a new line of RDSs. This will be a five-year project. The company bought some land three years ago for 54.9 milion in anticipation of using it as a toxic dump site for waste chemicals, but it built a piping system fo safely discard the chemicals instead. If the land were sold today, the net proceeds would be 557 million after taxes. In five years, the land will be worth $6.4 million after taxes. The company wants to bulld its new manufacturing plant on this land, the plant will cost $25.7 million to build. The following market data on DEl's securities are current Debt 70,0005.8 percent coupon bonds outstanding. 25 years to maturity, selling for 98 percent of par, the bonds have a $1,000 par value each and make semiannual payments. Common stock 1,450,000 shares outstanding. selling for $97 per share, the beta is 110 Preferred stock: 90.000 shares of 5.4 percent preferred stock outstanding. par value of $100, selling for $95 per share Market: 7 percent expected market risk premium; 3.8 percent risk-free fate. DEl's tax rate is 25 percent. The project requires $925,000 in initial net working capital investment to get operational o. Caiculate the project's Time 0 cash flow, taking into account all side effects. Assume that any NWC raised does not require flotation costs. Note: A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not million, of doliars, rounded to the nearest whole number, e.9., 1,234,567. b. The new RDS project is somewhat risker than a typical project for DEl, primarily because the plant is being located overseas. Management has told you to use an adjustment factor of +2 percent to account for this increased riskiness. Calculate the appropriate discount rate to use when evaluating DErs project. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal ploces, e.9., 32.16. c. The manufacturing plant has an eightyear tax life, and DEl uses straight-line depreciation. At the end of the project (i.e., the end of Year 5), the plant can be scrapped for $3.5 millon. What is the aftertox salvage value of this manufacturing plant? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to the nearest whole number, e.9., 1,234,567. d. The company will incur $3.8 million in annual fixed costs. The plan is to manufacture 13,500 ROSs per year and sell them at $11.200 per machine, the variable production costs are $10,100 per ROS. What is the annual operating cash flow, OCF, from this project? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and enter vour answer in dollars. not millions of doliars. rounded to the nearest. e-1. Calculate the net present value. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89. e-2. Calculate the internal rate of return. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16
