Blooper Industries must replace its magnoosium purification system. Quick & Dirty Systems sells a relatively cheap purification system for $10 million. The system will last 5 years. Do-It-Right sells a sturdier but more expensive system for $16 million; it will last for 8 years. Both systems entail $1 million in operating costs; both will be depreciated straight-line to a final value of zero over their useful lives; neither will have any salvage value at the end of its life. The firm’s tax rate is 30%, and the discount rate is 15%. Either machine will be replaced at the end of its life.

a. What is the equivalent annual cost of investing in the cheap system? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a positive value. Enter your answer in millions rounded to 2 decimal places.)

b. What is the equivalent annual cost of investing in the more expensive system? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a positive value. Enter your answer in millions rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Assume that sales will grow at 5.00%. The following accounts (cash, accounts receivable, inventory, net fixed assets, accounts payable and accruals, as well as operating costs) are assumed to change with sales and will maintain their current percentage of sales rates into 2016. The dividend payout ratio will remain the same. Long-term debt and notes payable will remain constant into 2016 as will interest expense, as a result. The firm also does not plan to issue any additional common stock or conduct any share repurchases. The firm’s tax rate is 40%. Any additional funds needed will be sourced through a line-of-credit (LOC) and surpluses will be paid out through a special dividend.

BALANCE SHEET AS OF 12/31/2015:

In the following questions, determine the percentage-of-sale forecast factors:

WHAT IS ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUALS???

Assume that sales will grow at 5.00%. The following accounts (cash, accounts receivable, inventory, net fixed assets, accounts payable and accruals, as well as operating costs) are assumed to change with sales and will maintain their current percentage of sales rates into 2016. The dividend payout ratio will remain the same. Long-term debt and notes payable will remain constant into 2016 as will interest expense, as a result. The firm also does not plan to issue any additional common stock or conduct any share repurchases. The firm’s tax rate is 40%. Any additional funds needed will be sourced through a line-of-credit (LOC) and surpluses will be paid out through a special dividend.

BALANCE SHEET AS OF 12/31/2015:

Using the percent-of-sales forecast approach, forecast the 2016 income statement and balance sheet. Be sure the balance sheet balances.

What are the Projected Regular Dividends for 2016?

Assume that sales will grow at 5.00%. The following accounts (cash, accounts receivable, inventory, net fixed assets, accounts payable and accruals, as well as operating costs) are assumed to change with sales and will maintain their current percentage of sales rates into 2016. The dividend payout ratio will remain the same. Long-term debt and notes payable will remain constant into 2016 as will interest expense, as a result. The firm also does not plan to issue any additional common stock or conduct any share repurchases. The firm’s tax rate is 40%. Any additional funds needed will be sourced through a line-of-credit (LOC) and surpluses will be paid out through a special dividend.

BALANCE SHEET AS OF 12/31/2015:

Using the percent-of-sales forecast approach, forecast the 2016 income statement and balance sheet. Be sure the balance sheet balances.

What is the Projected LOC (if any)?

Enter 0 if none.

Consider the following information for three stocks, Stocks A, B, and C. The returns on the three stocks are positively correlated, but they are not perfectly correlated. (That is, each of the correlation coefficients is between 0 and 1.)

Fund P has one-third of its funds invested in each of the three stocks. The risk-free rate is 5.5%, and the market is in equilibrium. (That is, required returns equal expected returns.) The data has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file below. Open the spreadsheet and perform the required analysis to answer the questions below.

Open spreadsheet

1. What is the market risk premium (r_M - r_RF)? Round your answer to two decimal places.

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2. What is the beta of Fund P? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

3. What is the required return of Fund P? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

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4. Would you expect the standard deviation of Fund P to be less than 15%, equal to 15%, or greater than 15%?

   1. less than 15%
   2. greater than 15%
   3. equal to 15%

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How can I find out the tangency portfolio base on the info state.

Rini Airlines is considering two alternative planes. Plane A has an expected life of 5 years, will cost $100 million, and will produce after-tax cash flows of $35 million per year. Plane B has a life of 10 years, will cost $132 million, and will produce after-tax cash flows of $35 million per year. Rini plans to serve the route for 10 years. The company’s WACC is 15%. If Rini needs to purchase a new Plane A, the cost will be $110 million, but cash inflows will remain the same. Should Rinie acquire Plane A or Plane B? Explain your answer. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

Plane -Select- (A, B) is the better project and will increase the company's value by $   millions.

Brandon is an analyst at a wealth management firm. One of his clients holds a $7,500 portfolio that consists of four stocks. The investment allocation in the portfolio along with the contribution of risk from each stock is given in the following table:

Brandon calculated the portfolio’s beta as 0.878 and the portfolio’s expected return as 8.8290%.

Brandon thinks it will be a good idea to reallocate the funds in his client’s portfolio. He recommends replacing Atteric Inc.’s shares with the same amount in additional shares of Transfer Fuels Co. The risk-free rate is 4%, and the market risk premium is 5.50%.

According to Brandon’s recommendation, assuming that the market is in equilibrium, how much will the portfolio’s required return change? (Note: Do not round your intermediate calculations.)

0.5566 percentage points

0.3775 percentage points

0.4840 percentage points

0.6002 percentage points

Analysts’ estimates on expected returns from equity investments are based on several factors. These estimations also often include subjective and judgmental factors, because different analysts interpret data in different ways.

Suppose, based on the earnings consensus of stock analysts, Brandon expects a return of 6.85% from the portfolio with the new weights. Does he think that the required return as compared to expected returns is undervalued, overvalued, or fairly valued?

Fairly valued

Overvalued

Undervalued

Suppose instead of replacing Atteric Inc.’s stock with Transfer Fuels Co.’s stock, Brandon considers replacing Atteric Inc.’s stock with the equal dollar allocation to shares of Company X’s stock that has a higher beta than Atteric Inc. If everything else remains constant, the required return from the portfolio would _________ .

You are the CFO of Sunland, Inc., a retailer of the exercise machine Slimbody6 and related accessories. Your firm is considering opening up a new store in Los Angeles. The store will have a life of 20 years. It will generate annual sales of 4,800 exercise machines, and the price of each machine is $2,500. The annual sales of accessories will be $600,000, and the operating expenses of running the store, including labor and rent, will amount to 50 percent of the revenues from the exercise machines. The initial investment in the store will equal $29,300,000 and will be fully depreciated on a straight-line basis over the 20-year life of the store. Your firm will need to invest $1,000,000 in additional working capital immediately, and recover it at the end of the investment. Your firm’s marginal tax rate is 30 percent. The opportunity cost of opening up the store is 11.80 percent. What are the incremental free cash flows from this project at the beginning of the project as well as in years 1–19 and 20? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round NPV answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 5,265.25 and all other answers to the nearest dollar, e.g. 5,265.)

Should you approve it?