Stackhouse Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investment of $4.5 million. The project
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Stackhouse Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investment of $4.5 million. The project will provide unlevered cash flows of $675,000 per year for the next 20 years. The company will finance the project with a debt-to-value ratio of .40. The company’s bonds have a YTM of 6.8 percent. The companies with operations comparable to this project have unlevered betas of 1.15, 1.08, 1.30, and 1.25. The risk-free rate is 3.8 percent, and the market risk premium is 7 percent. The company has a tax rate of 34 percent. What is the NPV of this project?
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Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-0077861759
10th edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe
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NPV stands for \"Net Present Value,\" which is a financial concept used to determine the value of an investment or project. It measures the difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows over a given period of time, using a specific discount rate. To calculate the NPV of an investment, you need to first estimate the cash inflows and outflows associated with the investment, and then discount them back to their present values using a discount rate. The discount rate represents the cost of capital or the expected rate of return required by investors. The formula for calculating NPV is: NPV = sum of (cash inflows / (1 + discount rate)^t) - sum of (cash outflows / (1 + discount rate)^t) Where: Cash inflows: the expected cash received from the investment Cash outflows: the expected cash paid out for the investment Discount rate: the required rate of return or the cost of capital t: the time period in which the cash flow occurs If the NPV is positive, it means that the investment is expected to generate a return higher than the required rate of return or the cost of capital, and it may be considered a good investment. If the NPV is negative, it means that the investment is not expected to generate a return higher than the required rate of return or the cost of capital, and it may be considered a bad investment.
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