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Could the DCF method be applied if the growth rate was not constant? How?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of capital to
What is the cost of equity based on the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium method?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of capital
What is your final estimate for the cost of equity, rs?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of capital to make many capital
What is Harry Davis’ weighted average cost of capital (WACC)?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of capital to make many
What factors influence Harry Davis’ composite WACC?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of capital to make many capital
Should the company use the composite WACC as the hurdle rate for each of its projects?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of
What procedures are used to determine the risk-adjusted cost of capital for a particular division? What approaches are used to measure a division’s beta?MINI CASE During the last few years,
Harry Davis is interested in establishing a new division, which will focus primarily on developing new internet-based projects. In trying to determine the cost of capital for this new division, you
What are three types of project risk? How is each type of risk used?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of capital to make
Explain in words why new common stock that is raised externally has a higher percentage cost than equity that is raised internally by reinvesting earnings.MINI CASE During the last few years,
Harry Davis estimates that if it issues new common stock, the flotation cost will be 15 percent. Harry Davis incorporates the flotation costs into the DCF approach. What is the estimated cost of
Suppose Harry Davis issues 30-year debt with a par value of $1,000 and a coupon rate of 10%, paid annually. If flotation costs are 2 percent, what is the after-tax cost of debt for the new
What four common mistakes in estimating the WACC should Harry Davis avoid?MINI CASE During the last few years, Harry Davis Industries has been too constrained by the high cost of capital to
Define “incremental cash flow.”MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is being conducted by Sidney
Should you subtract interest expense or dividends when calculating project cash flow?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital
Suppose the firm had spent $100,000 last year to rehabilitate the production line site. Should this cost be included in the analysis? Explain.MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering
Now assume that the plant space could be leased out to another firm at $25,000 a year. Should this be included in the analysis if so how?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding
Finally, assume that the new product line is expected to decrease sales of the firm’s other lines by $50,000 per year. Should this be considered in the analysis If so how?MINI CASE Shrieves
Disregard the assumptions in part a. What is Shrieves’ depreciable basis?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting
Calculate the annual sales revenues and costs (other than depreciation). Why is it important to include inflation when estimating cash flows?
Calculate the annual sales revenues and costs (other than depreciation). Why is it important to include inflation when estimating cash flows?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering
Construct annual incremental operating cash flow statements.MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is being
Estimate the required net operating working capital for each year, and the cash flow due to investments in net operating working capital.MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding
Calculate the after-tax salvage cash flow.MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is being conducted by Sidney
Calculate the net cash flows for each year? Based on these cash flows, what are the project’s NPV, IRR, MIRR, and payback? Do these indicators suggest that the project should be undertaken?MINI
What does the term “risk” mean in the context of capital budgeting, to what extent can risk be quantified, and when risk is quantified, is the quantification based primarily on statistical
What are the three types of risk that are relevant in capital budgeting? 2. How is each of these risk types measured, and how do they relate to one another?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is
How is each type of risk used in the capital budgeting process?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is
What is sensitivity analysis?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is being conducted by Sidney Johnson, a
Perform a sensitivity analysis on the unit sales, salvage value, and cost of capital for the project. Assume that each of these variables can vary from its base case, or expected, value by plus and
What is the primary weakness of sensitivity analysis? What is its primary usefulness?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital
What is scenario analysis?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is being conducted by Sidney Johnson, a
What is the worst-case NPV the best-case NPV? Use the worst-, most likely, and best-case NPVs and probabilities of occurrence to find the project’s expected NPV, standard deviation, and coefficient
Are there problems with scenario analysis? Define simulation analysis, and discuss its principal advantages and disadvantages.MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line
Assume that Shrieves’ average project has a coefficient of variation in the range of 0.2-0.4. Would the new line be classified as high risk, average risk, or low risk? What type of risk is being
Shrieves typically adds or subtracts 3 percentage points to the overall cost of capital to adjust for risk. Should the new furniture line be accepted?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is
Are there any subjective risk factors that should be considered before the final decision is made?MINI CASE Shrieves Casting Company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the
What are some types of real options?MINI CASE Assume that you have just been hired as a financial analyst by Tropical Sweets Inc., a mid-sized California company that specializes in creating
What are five possible procedures for analyzing a real option?MINI CASE Assume that you have just been hired as a financial analyst by Tropical Sweets Inc., a mid-sized California company that
Tropical Sweets is considering a project that will cost $70 million and will generate expected cash flows of $30 per year for three years. The cost of capital for this type of project is 10 percent
Now suppose this project has an investment timing option, since it can be delayed for a year. The cost will still be $70 million at the end of the year, and the cash flows for the scenarios will
Use decision tree analysis to calculate the NPV of the project with the investment timing option.MINI CASE Assume that you have just been hired as a financial analyst by Tropical Sweets Inc., a
Use a financial option pricing model to estimate the value of the investment timing option.MINI CASE Assume that you have just been hired as a financial analyst by Tropical Sweets Inc., a
Now suppose the cost of the project is $75 million and the project cannot be delayed. But if Tropical Sweets implements the project, then Tropical Sweets will have a growth option. It will have the
Tropical Sweets will replicate the original project only if demand is high. Using decision tree analysis, estimate the value of the project with the growth option.MINI CASE Assume that you have
Use a financial option model to estimate the value of the growth option.MINI CASE Assume that you have just been hired as a financial analyst by Tropical Sweets Inc., a mid-sized California
What happens to the value of the growth option if the variance of the project’s return is 14.2 percent? What if it is 50 percent? How might this explain the high valuations of many dot.com
What is a stock option in a compensation plan?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value. KFS has asked you to
What are assets-in-place? How can their value be estimated?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value. KFS has
What are growth options? How can their value be estimated?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value. KFS has
What are non-operating assets? How can their value be estimated?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value.
The first acquisition target is a privately held company in a mature industry. The company currently has free cash flow of $20 million. Its WACC is 10% and it is expected to grow at a constant rate
What is the total value of a corporation? Who has claims on this value?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its
What is its total corporate value? What is its value of equity?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value. KFS
What is its MVA (MVA = total corporate value – total book value)?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value.
The second acquisition target is a privately held company in a growing industry. The target has recently borrowed $40 million to finance its expansion; it has no other debt or preferred stock. It
What is its value of equity on a price per share basis?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value. KFS has
KFS is also interested in applying value-based management to its own divisions. Explain what value-based management is.MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies
What are the four value drivers? How does each of them affect value?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its
What is return on invested capital (ROIC)? Why is the spread between ROIC and WACC so important?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is
KFS has two divisions. Both have current sales of $1,000, current expected growth of 5%, and a WACC of 10%. Division A has high profitability (OP=6%) but high capital requirements (CR=78%). Division
What is the ROIC of each division for 5% growth and for 6% growth? How is this related to MVA?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is
The managers at KFS have heard that corporate governance can affect shareholder value. List for them the three mechanisms of corporate governance.MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to
Why is entrenched management potentially harmful to shareholders?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value.
List three provisions in the corporate charter that affect takeovers.MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its
Explain the difference between insiders and outsiders on the board of directors. What are interlocking boards?MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a
List the three types of assets that companies own.MINI CASE You have been hired as a consultant to Kulpa Fishing Supplies (KFS), a company that is seeking to increase its value. KFS has asked
Business Week recently ran an article on companies’ debt policies, and the names Modigliani and Miller (MM) were mentioned several times as leading researchers on the theory of capital structure.
Assume that firms U and L are in the same risk class, and that both have EBIT = $500,000. Firm U uses no debt financing, and its cost of equity is rsU = 14%. Firm L has $1 million of debt
Graph (a) the relationships between capital costs and leverage as measured by D/V, and (b) the relationship between value and D.MINI CASE David Lyons, CEO of Lyons Solar Technologies, is
Using the data given in part B, but now assuming that firms L and U are both subject to a 40 percent corporate tax rate, repeat the analysis called for in B(1) and B(2) under the MM with-tax
Now suppose investors are subject to the following tax rates:TD = 30% and TS = 12%.What is the gain from leverage according to the miller model?MINI CASE David Lyons, CEO of Lyons Solar
How does this gain compare to the gain in the MM model with corporate taxes?MINI CASE David Lyons, CEO of Lyons Solar Technologies, is concerned about his firm’s level of debt financing. The
What does the Miller model imply about the effect of corporate debt on the value of the firm, that is, how do personal taxes affect the situation?MINI CASE David Lyons, CEO of Lyons Solar
What capital structure policy recommendations do the three theories (MM without taxes, MM with corporate taxes, and Miller) suggest to financial managers? Empirically, do firms appear to follow any
How is the analysis in part C different if firms U and L are growing? Assume that both firms are growing at a rate of 7 percent and that the investment in net operating assets required supporting
What if L’s debt is risky? For the purpose of this example, assume that the value of L’s operations is $4 million—which is the value of its debt plus equity. Assume also that its debt consists
What is the value of L’s stock for volatilities between 0.20 and 0.95? What in-centives might the manager of L have if she understands this relationship? What might debt holders do in response?MINI
What is meant by the term “distribution policy”?MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to exploit a new continuous-casting process. SSC’s founders, Donald Brown
The terms “irrelevance,” “bird-in-the-hand,” and “tax preference” have been used to describe three major theories regarding the way dividend payouts affect a firm’s value. Explain what
What do the three theories indicate regarding the actions management should take with respect to dividend payout?MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to exploit a
What results have empirical studies of the dividend theories produced? How does all this affect what we can tell managers about dividend payouts?MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was
Discuss (1) the information content, or signaling, hypothesis, (2) the clientele effect, and (3) their effects on distribution policy.MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5
Assume that SSC has an $800,000 capital budget planned for the coming year. You have determined that its present capital structure (60 percent equity and 40 percent debt) is optimal, and its net
In general terms, how would a change in investment opportunities affect the payout ratio under the residual payment policy?MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the residual policy? (Hint: don’t neglect signaling and clientele effects.)MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to
What are stocks repurchases? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a firm’s repurchasing its own shares.MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to exploit a new
Describe the series of steps that most firms take in setting dividend policy in practice.MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to exploit a new continuous-casting
What are stock dividends and stock splits? What are the advantages and disadvantages of stock dividends and stock splits?MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to
What is a dividend reinvestment plan (drip), and how does it work?MINI CASE Southeastern Steel Company (SSC) was formed 5 years ago to exploit a new continuous-casting process. SSC’s founders,
What agencies regulate securities markets?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion throughout the entire southeast is
How start-up firms are usually financed?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion throughout the entire southeast is
Differentiate between a private placement and a public offering.MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion throughout the
Why would a company consider going public? What are some advantages and disadvantages?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where
What are the steps of an initial public offering?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion throughout the entire southeast
What criteria are important in choosing an investment banker?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion throughout the
Would companies going public use a negotiated deal or a competitive bid?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion
Would the sale be on an underwritten or best efforts basis?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion throughout the entire
Without actually doing any calculations, describe how the preliminary offering range for the price of an IPO would be determined?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in
What is a road show? What is book building?MINI CASE Randy’s, a family-owned restaurant chain operating in Alabama, has grown to the point where expansion throughout the entire southeast is
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