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Treynor Pie Company is a food company specializing in
high-calorie snack foods. It is seeking to diversify its food
business and lower its risks. It is examining three companies—a
gourmet restaurant chain, a baby food company, and a nutritional
products firm. Each of these companies can be bought at the same
multiple of earnings. The following represents information about
all the companies.
Company | Correlation with Treynor Pie Company |
Sales ($ millions) |
Expected Earnings ($ millions) |
Standard Deviation in Earnings ($ millions) |
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Treynor PieCompany | + | 1.0 | $ | 197 | $ | 9 | $ | 4.0 | ||||||
Gourmet restaurant | + | .6 | 64 | 4 | 1.3 | |||||||||
Baby food company | + | .3 | 54 | 2 | 1.8 | |||||||||
Nutritionalproducts company | − | .7 | 75 | 3 | 3.2 | |||||||||
a-1. Compute the coefficient of variation for each
of the four companies. (Enter your answers in millions
(e.g., $100,000 should be entered as ".10"). Round your answers to
3 decimal places.)
a-2. Which company is the least risky?
Nutritional products company | |
Treynor Pie Company | |
Baby food company | |
Gourmet restaurant |
a-3. Which company is the most risky?
Baby food company | |
Treynor Pie Company | |
Nutritional products company | |
Gourmet restaurant |
b. Which of the acquisition candidates is most
likely to reduce Treynor Pie Company's risk?
Nutritional products company | |
Gourmet restaurant | |
Baby food company |