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Bob is evaluating the merits of a potential investment in a drone manufacturing company. He already...

Bob is evaluating the merits of a potential investment in a drone manufacturing company. He already owns the land for the facility, but he would need to purchase and install the assembly machinery for $240,000. The machine falls into the MACRS 5-year class, and it will cost $20,000 to modify it for Bob's particular needs. A consultant, who charged Bob's $10,000 for his services, already completed the process of restructuring the facility for the required zoning and industry standards. The facility require additional net working capital of $5,000. Drone sales are expected to yield before tac revenues of $450,000 per year with labor costs of $200,000 per year and fixed costs of $175,000 per year. Bob expects the machine to be used for 5 years and then sold for $55,000.

Bob has asked you to evaluate his proposed project, and he has provided you with the following information about the investment.

Bob's firm has a target capital structure of 25% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 70% common equity. Its bonds have a 9% coupon, paid semiannually, a current mature of 20 years, and sell at par for $1,000. The firm could sell, at par, $100 preferred stock that pays a 5.75% annual dividend, but flotation costs of 4% would be incurred. The firm's beta is 1.25, the risk-free rate is 3%, and the expected rate of return on the market portfolio is 9.4%. The company is a constant growth firm that just paid a dividend of $2.00, sells for $30 per share, and has a growth rate of 5%. The firm's policy is to use a risk premium of 4% when using the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium method to find the cost of equity. The firm's marginal tax rate is 42%.

In addition to finding the firm's average-risk cost of capital, Bob has also asked you to calculate a risk-adjusted cost of capital. He believes that the project's cash flows for years 1 through 5 will increase by 10% in particularly good market, and the cash flows will decrease by 10% in a particularly bad market. He estimates that there is a 15% probability of a good market occurring, a 25% probability of a bad market occurring, and a 60% probability of an "average" market occurring.

To complete this task of calculating a risk-adjusted cost of capital, you will need to find the expected NPV, its standard deviation, and its coefficient of variation (CV). Bob informs you that his average project has a CV in the range of 1.0 to 2.0. If the CV of a project being evaluated is greater than 2.0, 2 percentage points are added to the cost of capital for the evaluation. Similarly, if the CV is less than 1.0, 1 percentage point is deducted from the cost of capital for the evaluation.

In the end, Bob wants to know whether to accept or reject the project. He expects you to make your conclusion using 3 techniques: discounted payback method, NPV analysis, and IRR analysis.

Throughout your analysis, you are to be as thorough as possible, documenting all of your work to support your conclusion. Please show the following calculations:

1) Bob's WACC for an average-risk project

2) Annual cash flow estimates for the project (including the initial outlay)

3) A Risk- adjusted cost of capital for this project

4) An accept/reject decision based on the above 3 techniques

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