1. You are the CEO of a table lamp manufacturing company. Investment bankers have approached you...

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1. You are the CEO of a table lamp manufacturing company. Investment bankers have approached you with the opportunity to acquire a competitor firm for $350 million. You will need to raise capital to complete the acquisition, and you have been told that the hurdle rate of the investors you would use to do this transaction is 14%. Your company's current WACC is 7%. Your team ran a variety of forecasts, and you expect that transaction would generate a 14.7% IRR and an NPV of $62 million using WACC as your discount rate. All else equal, what should be your decision regarding the transaction? (F&E) Do the deal Recalculate the forecasts using a lower WACC Ask your investors to reconsider what their hurdle rate expectations are All of these are correct Don't do the deal 3. A company is considering investing in a new project. They calculated the likely financial returns of the investment which are summarized as follows. - • The NPV using WACC as the discount rate was $4,013 • The IRR of the project is 7.2% What does the data tell us about the value of WACC? (F&E) (You don't need to calculate anything here. You can reach a conclusion just by looking at the data provided.) O It is less than 7.2% O It is above 7.2% O It is greater than $4,013 O It equals $4,013 OIt is equal to 7.2% 1. You are the CEO of a table lamp manufacturing company. Investment bankers have approached you with the opportunity to acquire a competitor firm for $350 million. You will need to raise capital to complete the acquisition, and you have been told that the hurdle rate of the investors you would use to do this transaction is 14%. Your company's current WACC is 7%. Your team ran a variety of forecasts, and you expect that transaction would generate a 14.7% IRR and an NPV of $62 million using WACC as your discount rate. All else equal, what should be your decision regarding the transaction? (F&E) Do the deal Recalculate the forecasts using a lower WACC Ask your investors to reconsider what their hurdle rate expectations are All of these are correct Don't do the deal 3. A company is considering investing in a new project. They calculated the likely financial returns of the investment which are summarized as follows. - • The NPV using WACC as the discount rate was $4,013 • The IRR of the project is 7.2% What does the data tell us about the value of WACC? (F&E) (You don't need to calculate anything here. You can reach a conclusion just by looking at the data provided.) O It is less than 7.2% O It is above 7.2% O It is greater than $4,013 O It equals $4,013 OIt is equal to 7.2%

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