You run a perpetual encabulator machine, which generates revenues averaging $20 million per year. Raw material costs are 50% of revenues. These costs are variablethey are always proportional to revenues. There are no other operating costs. The cost of capital is 9%. Your firms long-term borrowing rate is 6%. Now you are approached by Studebaker Capital Corp., which proposes a fixed price contract to supply raw material at $10 million per year for 10 years.

A. What happens to the operating leverage and business risk of the encabulator machine if you agree to this fixed-price contract?

B. Calculate the present value of the encabulator machine with and without the fixed price contract.