Suppose your friend, Pat, approaches you with a plan to get in on the solar panel leasing
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Assume that due to the rapid rate of technological depreciation, there will be neither demand nor salvage value for these solar panels at lease expiry.
Assume you'll face a 40 percent tax rate. For tax purposes, you'll be able to depreciate the total cost of equipment and installation over 5 years in a straight-line manner.
Your required return can be estimated from Solarplex, a publicly traded pure-play solar panel leasing company with a beta of 2 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1. You estimate that returns on a balanced market portfolio are 12 percent and the risk-free rate of borrowing is 4 percent.
Suppose, first, that Pat proposes you form an all-equity enterprise to invest in this opportunity. What is the maximum price you should pay for this inventory of panels? Report annual cash flows, even if you decide to use a compact formula for direct calculation. Use the APV/WACC method (recall, they're the same for a firm w/ no debt).
Suppose the seller is asking $50,000 for the total inventory of solar panels. Additionally, assume you can borrow $25,000 at 8 percent in the form of a five-year, interest-only loan, with the total principal retired via a balloon payment due in year 5. Does this investment make sense? Report annual cash flows, even if you decide to use a compact formula for direct calculation. Briefly explain why you are using the computational method chosen. (Hint: you will need to decide to use the APV or WACC formula. It is possible to compute either
/ both. But be careful -- given the nature of the debt-share-of-value in this project, one of these approaches is much more complicated than the other.)
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