MINICASE SoftTec Products Company The SoftTec Products Company is a successful, small, rapidly growing, closely held corporation. The equity owners are income statement (2016) and projected income statements for the next four years (2017-2020). Sales are expected to considering selling the firm to an outside buyer and want to estimate the value of the firm. Following is last year's grow at an annual 7 percent rate beginning in 2021 and continuing thereafter. PROJECTED ACTUAL 2018 2019 2017 2016 2020 INCOME STATEMENTS [$ THOUSANDS] $150.0 $200.0 $250.0 $300.0 $350.0 Net sales -75.0 -100.0 -125.0 -150.0 -175.0 Cost of goods sold 100.0 125.0 150.0 75.0 175.0 -50.0 -60.0 Gross profit -40.0 -30.0 -70.0 SG&A expenses -10.0 -12.5 -15.0 -7.5 -17.5 Depreciation 50.0 62.5 75.0 87.5 37.5 Earnings before interest and taxes -3.5 -3.5 -3.5 -3.5 -3.5 Interest 46.5 59.0 71.5 34.0 84.0 Earnings before taxes -18.6 -23.6 728.6 -33.6 -13.6 Taxes (40% rate) $ 20.4 $ 27.9 $ 35.4 $ 42.9 $ 50.4 Net income Selected balance sheet accounts at the end of 2016 were as follows. Net fixed assets were $50,000. The sum of the required cash, accounts receivable, and inventories accounts was $50,000. Accounts payable and accruals totaled $25,000. Each of these balance sheet accounts was expected to grow with sales over time. No changes in interest-bearing debt were projected, and there were no plans to issue additional shares of common stock. There are currently 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding. Data have been gathered for a comparable publicly traded firm in the same industry that Soft Tec operates in. The cost of common equity for this other firm, Wakefield Products, was estimated to be 25 percent. SoftTec has survived for a period of years. Management is not currently contemplating a major financial structure change and believes a single dis- count rate is appropriate for discounting all cash flows. A. Project SoftTec's income statement for 2021. B. Determine the annual increases in required net working capital and capital expenditures (CAPEX) for SoftTec for the years 2017 to 2021. C. Project annual operating free cash flows for the years 2017 to 2021. D. Estimate SoftTec's terminal value cash flow at the end of 2020. E. Estimate SoftTec's equity value in dollars and per share at the end of 2016. F. Soft Tec's management was wondering what the firm's equity value (dollar amount and on a per-share basis) would be if the cost of equity capital were only 20 percent. Recalculate the firm's value using this lower discount rate. G. Now assume that the $35,000 in long-term debt (and therefore interest expense at 10 percent) is expected to grow with sales. Recalculate the equity using the original 25 percent discount rate.