Good Company is a regional chain department store. It will remain in business for one more year.
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Good Company is a regional chain department store. It will remain in business for one more year. The probability of a boom year is 70 percent and the probability of a recession is 30 percent. It is projected that the company will generate a total cash flow of $186 million in a boom year and $77 million in a recession. The company's required debt payment at the end of the year is $111 million. The market value of the company's outstanding debt is $84 million. The company pays no taxes.
a.
What payoff do bondholders expect to receive in the event of a recession? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars (e.g. 1,234,567).)
Payoff $
b.
What is the promised return on the company's debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).)
Promised return %
c.
What is the expected return on the company's debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).)
Expected return %
Good Time Company is a regional chain department store. It will remain in business for one more year. The probability of a boom year is 70 percent and the probability of a recession is 30 percent. It is projected that the company will generate a total cash flow of $186 million in a boom year and $77 million in a recession. The company's required debt payment at the end of the year is $111 million. The market value of the company's outstanding debt is $84 million. The company pays no taxes. a. What payoff do bondholders expect to receive in the event of a recession? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars (e.g. 1,234,567).) Payoff $ b. What is the promised return on the company's debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) Promised return % c. What is the expected return on the company's debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) Expected return %.
Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-0077861759
10th edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe