Consider the following capital investment proposal:
It requires an initial investment of $1,170 million. The project is
expected to generate the following net cash flows:
$417 million in year 1
$328 million in year 2
$475 million in year 3
$531 million in year 4.
If the company uses a discount rate of 11%, how much is the
profitability index?
Enter your answer in millions. Round to one decimal.
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You work for a pharmaceutical company that has developed a new drug. The patent on the drug will last 17 years. You expect that the drug's profits will be $ 2 million in its first year and that this amount will grow at a rate of 3 % per year for the next 17 years. Once the patent expires, other pharmaceutical companies will be able to produce the same drug and competition will likely drive profits to zero. What is the present value of the new drug if the interest rate is 10 % per year?
The present value of the new drug is ?million. (Round to three decimal places.)
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Net cash flows-No terminal value Central Laundry and Cleaners is considering replacing an existing piece of machinery with a more sophisticated machine. The old machine was purchased 3 years ago at a cost of $47,100, and this amount was being depreciated under MACRS using a 5-year recovery period. The machine has 5 years of usable life remaining. The new machine that is being considered costs $76,700 and requires $4,000 in installation costs. The new machine would be depreciated under MACRS using a 5-year recovery period. The firm can currently sell the old machine for $54,300 without incurring any removal or cleanup costs. The firm is subject to a tax rate of 40%. The revenues and expenses (excluding depreciation and interest) associated with the new and the old machines for the next 5 years are given in the table
New machine
Old machine
Year Revenue Expenses
(excluding depreciation and interest)
Revenue Expenses
(excluding depreciation and interest)
1 $749,200 $719,600
$673,700 $659,100
2 749,200 719,600
675,700 659,100
3 749,200 719,600
679,700 659,100
4 749,200 719,600
677,700 659,100
5 749,200 719,600
673,700 659,100
(Table
Rounded Depreciation Percentages by Recovery Year Using MACRS
for
First Four Property Classes
Percentage by recovery year*
Recovery year 3 years 5 years
7 years 10 years
1
33%
20%
14% 10%
2
45%
32%
25%
18%
3
15% 19%
18% 14%
4
7%
12%
12% 12%
5
12%
9% 9%
6
5% 9%
8%
7
9% 7%
8
4% 6%
9
6%
10
6%
11
4%
Totals 100% 100%
100% 100%
contains the applicable MACRS depreciation percentages.) Note: The new machine will have no terminal value at the end of 5 years.)
a. Calculate the initial investment associated with replacement of the old machine by the new one.
b. Determine the incremental operating cash inflows associated with the proposed replacement. (Note: Be sure to consider the depreciation in year 6.)
c. Depict on a time line the relevant cash flows found in parts (a) and (b) associated with the proposed replacement decision.
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Consider a project to supply 100 million postage stamps per year to the U.S. Postal Service for the next five years. You have an idle parcel of land available that cost $1,705,000 five years ago; if the land were sold today, it would net you $1,780,000 aftertax. The land can be sold for $1,748,000 after taxes in five years. You will need to install $5.35 million in new manufacturing plant and equipment to actually produce the stamps; this plant and equipment will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project’s five-year life. The equipment can be sold for $625,000 at the end of the project. You will also need $575,000 in initial net working capital for the project, and an additional investment of $50,000 in every year thereafter. Your production costs are .48 cents per stamp, and you have fixed costs of $1,050,000 per year. If your tax rate is 21 percent and your required return on this project is 10 percent, what bid price should you submit on the contract? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 5 decimal places, e.g., 32.16161.)
What is the bid price?
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A proposed cost-saving device has an installed cost of $835,000. The device will be used in a five-year project but is classified as three-year MACRS property for tax purposes. The required initial net working capital investment is $95,000, the marginal tax rate is 25 percent, and the project discount rate is 11 percent. The device has an estimated Year 5 salvage value of $145,000. What level of pretax cost savings do we require for this project to be profitable? MACRS schedule (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16. |
What is the Pretax cost savings?
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How to apply these formulas for Mean and Variance in Finance?
With examples and what the letters mean, thank you
Mean
E(?? ) = 1 ? ∑??,? ? ?=1
Variance
VAR(?? ) = 1 ? − 1 ∑[??,? − ?(?? )] 2 ? ?=1 ,
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What are the three different forms of business organization? Explain with examples.
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An old two-flat can be purchased for $200,000 cash. The two units can bring in a total of $2,500 per month (allowing for normal vacancies). The total operating expenses for property taxes, repairs, gardening, and so forth are estimated to be $200 per month. For tax purposes, straight-line depreciation over a 20-year remaining life with to a zero salvage value will be used.
Of the total $200,000 cost of the property, $50,000 is the value of the land. Assume a 38% marginal income tax bracket (combined state and federal taxes) applies throughout the 20 years. This tax rate applies to ordinary income and capital gains/losses.
Since there is no growth expected in rents or expenses, depreciation is straight-line, and the tax rate doesn’t change, the ATCF’s for each year, 1 to 20, will be the same.
What after-tax IRR would you expect assuming that the property is held for twenty years and then sold for $50,000?
What after-tax IRR would you expect assuming that the property is held for twenty years and then sold for $150,000?
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Discuss whether Johnson & Johnson has been successful in all of their acquisitions.
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Simtek currently pays a $2.50 dividends per share next year 's dividend is expected to be $3 per share. after next year , dividends are expected to increase at a 9% annual rate for 3years and a 6% annual rate thereafter.
a. what is the current value of a share of Simtek stock to an investor who requires a 15% return on his or her investment.
b. if the dividend in year 1 is expected to be $3 and the growth rate over the following three years is expected to be only 7% and then 6% thereafter, what will the new stock price be?
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Review and analyse Cash Flow Statement of Vodafone and DT.
Specify your key observations.
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The Morning Jolt Coffee Company has projected the following quarterly sales amounts for the coming year: |
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |||||||||
| Sales | $ | 750 | $ | 780 | $ | 860 | $ | 940 | ||||
| a. |
Accounts receivable at the beginning of the year are $340. The company has a 45-day collection period. Calculate cash collections in each of the four quarters by completing the following (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.): |
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |||||
| Beginning receivables | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||
| Sales | 750.00 | 780.00 | 860.00 | 940.00 | ||||
| Cash collections | ||||||||
| Ending receivables | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||
| b. |
Recalculate the cash collections with a collection period of 60 days. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |||||
| Beginning receivables | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||
| Sales | 750.00 | 780.00 | 860.00 | 940.00 | ||||
| Cash collections | ||||||||
| Ending receivables | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||
| c. |
Recalculate the cash collections with a collection period of 30 days. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |||||
| Beginning receivables | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||
| Sales | 750.00 | 780.00 | 860.00 | 940.00 | ||||
| Cash collections | ||||||||
| Ending receivables | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||
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Consider a one-year, 10 percent coupon bond with a face value of $1,000 issued by a private corporation. The one-year risk-free rate is 10 percent. The corporation has hit on hard times, and the consensus is that there is a 20 percent probability that it will default on its bonds. If an investor were willing to pay at most $775 for the bond, is that investor risk neutral or risk averse?
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Explain (in no more than 3 sentences) why we, for example, tend to use put options for X ≤ $228.82 to back-out the IV(implied volatility), but for X > $228.82, we use the call options. For your information, the last traded price for Tesla Inc. on 25 July 2019 was $228.82.
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Minion, Inc., has no debt outstanding and a total market value of $211,875. Earnings before interest and taxes, EBIT, are projected to be $14,300 if economic conditions are normal. If there is strong expansion in the economy, then EBIT will be 20 percent higher. If there is a recession, then EBIT will be 35 percent lower. The company is considering a $33,900 debt issue with an interest rate of 6 percent. The proceeds will be used to repurchase shares of stock. There are currently 7,500 shares outstanding. Assume the company has a tax rate of 21 percent. |
| a-1. |
Calculate earnings per share, EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios before any debt is issued. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
| a-2. | Calculate the percentage changes in EPS when the economy expands or enters a recession. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) |
| b-1. | Calculate earnings per share, EPS, under each of the three economic scenarios after the recapitalization. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
| b-2. | Calculate the percentage changes in EPS when the economy expands or enters a recession assuming recapitalization has occurred. (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
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