Sora Industries has 66 million outstandingshares, $125 million indebt, $49 million incash, and the following projected free
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Sora Industries has 66 million outstandingshares, $125 million indebt, $49 million incash, and the following projected free cash flow for the next four years
Years: 0 1 2 3 4
Earnings& FCF Forecast($ million)
- Sales 433.0 468.0 516.0 547.0 574.3
- Growth vs. Prior Year 8.1% 10.3% 6.0% 5.0%
- Cost of Goods Sold (313.6) (345.7) (366.5) (384.8)
- Gross Profit 154.4 170.3 180.5 189.5
- Selling, General& Admin. (93.6) (103.2) (109.4) (114.9)
- Depreciation (7.0) (7.5) (9.0) (9.5)
- EBIT 53.8 59.6 62.1 65.2
- Less: Income tax at40% (21.5) (23.8) (24.8) (26.1)
- Plus: Depreciation 7.0 7.5 9.0 9.5
- Less: Capital Expenditures (7.7) (10.0) (9.9) (10.4)
- Less: Increases in NWC (6.3) (8.6) (5.6) (4.9)
- Free Cash Flow 25.3 24.6 30.8 33.3
a. SupposeSora's revenue and free cash flow are expected to grow at a 4.9% rate beyond year 4. IfSora's weighted average cost of capital is 11.0%, what is the value ofSora's stock based on thisinformation?
b.Sora's cost of goods sold was assumed to be67% of sales. If its cost of goods sold is actually70% ofsales, how would the estimate of thestock's valuechange?
c. Let's return to the assumptions of part (a) and suppose Sora can maintain its cost of goods sold at67% of sales.However, now suppose Sora reduces itsselling, general, and administrative expenses from20% of sales to16% of sales. What stock price would you estimatenow? (Assume no otherexpenses, excepttaxes, areaffected.)
d. Sora's net working capital needs were estimated to be18% of sales(which is their current level in year0). If Sora can reduce this requirement to12% of sales starting in year1, but all other assumptions remain as in part (a), what stock price do you estimate forSora? (Hint: This change will have the largest impact onSora's free cash flow in year1.)
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