You are trying to evaluate a private firm’s potential as a good investment opportunity. Your mentor at the investment bank you interned during the summer told you to collect information on comparable firms, which will help you find the WACC of the private firm. The private firm has ND/E ratio of 2. The risk free rate is 2%. Market risk premium is 5%. Cost of debt for the private firm is assumed is 6%. The tax rate is 50%. The following table lists the information you have gathered:

What is the net debt for firm A?

Q2. Calculate the asset beta for firm D.

Q3. What is the average asset beta you should use combining all the comparable firms?

Q4. What is the equity beta for the private firm?

Q5. What is the cost of equity for the private firm? 0.0/1.0 point (graded) Input the cost of equity for the private firm. （use the result from problem 3） ______ %(keep two decimal points)

Jumbo Enterprises plans to borrow R1 000 000 for one year. The stated interest rate is 15% per annum.

Required:

Use the information provided above to calculate the effective interest rate if:

4.3.1 The interest is discounted

4.3.2 There is a 25% compensating balance requirement

Question 3 [36]

Rapid Print CC is a company specialising in 3D printing for commerce and industry. The management committee is considering adding an additional 3D printer to its production facilities and is considering purchasing one of two suitable 3D printers available for their purposes. Both printers, LaserX and 3Dpro, are under consideration. The printing manager and the financial manager can expect a minimum return of 10% per annum from either printer. The acquisition price for LaserX is R350 000 and for 3Dpro it is R600 000. They have also prepared the following expected net cash flows for the expected 4-year life span of the two printers:

LaserX                3Dpro

80 000                150 000

100 000               250 000

150 000               275 000

180 000               300 000

Required

Show all calculations.

3.1. Calculate the net present value (NPV) for both printers and the internal rate of return (IRR) for LaserX. The IRR for 3Dpro = 20%. It is recommended that you use 22% as an alternative cost of capital for LaserX. (29)

3.2. Recommend to Rapid Print’s management which printer they should consider purchasing, providing specific reasons for your recommendations.

 Lisa Simpson wants to have $1,400,000 in 30 years by making equal annual​ end-of-the-year deposits into a​ tax-deferred account paying 11.75 percent annually. What must​ Lisa's annual deposit​ be?

Explain the implications of the “Degree of Operating Leverage”.

1. Suppose you negotiate a selling price of $29,995 for a Ford Explorer. You make a down payment of 10% of the selling price and finance the remaining balance for 5 years at an annual interest rate of 8.3%. The sales tax is 8.3% of the selling price, and the license fee is 0.4% of the selling price. Find the monthly payment. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

$ _________

2. A mutual fund has $600 million worth of stock, $600,000 in cash, and $1 million in other assets. The fund's total liabilities amount to $2 million. There are 10million shares outstanding. You invest $9,000 in this fund. How many shares are you purchasing? (Round your answer down to the nearest whole number.)

_________ shares

3. A credit card account had a $285 balance on March 5. A purchase of $181 was made on March 12, and a payment of $100 was made on March 28. Find the average daily balance if the billing date is April 5. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

$ ________

4. Use the given partial stock table. Round dollar amounts to the nearest cent when necessary.

Consider the following for Boeing (BA).

(a) What is the difference between the highest and lowest prices paid for this stock during the last 52 weeks?

$ _______

(b) Suppose that you own 850 shares of this stock. What dividend do you receive this year?

$ _______

(c) How many shares of this stock were sold during the trading day?

_______ shares

(d) Did the price of a share of this stock increase or decrease during the day shown in the table?

1-increase

2- decrease   

(e) What was the price of a share of this stock at the start of the trading day?

$ _______

​(​Break-even

point and operating

leverage​)

Footwear Inc. manufactures a complete line of​ men's and​ women's dress shoes for independent merchants. The average selling price of its finished product is

​$85

per pair. The variable cost for this same pair of shoes is

​$60

.

Footwear Inc. incurs fixed costs of

​$180 comma 000

per year.

a. What is the​ break-even point in pairs of shoes sold for the​ company?

b. What is the dollar sales volume the firm must achieve to reach the​ break-even point?

c. What would be the​ firm's profit or loss at the following units of production​ sold:

6 comma 000

pairs of​ shoes?

12 comma 000

pairs of​ shoes?

15 comma 000

pairs of​ shoes?

How long will it take to pay off a loan of $45,000 at an annual rate of 8 percent compounded monthly if you make monthly payments of $600? Use five decimal places for the monthly percentage rate in your calculations.

You are graduating from college at the end of this semester and after reading the The Business of Life box in this​ chapter, you have decided to invest $5100 at the end of each year into a Roth IRA for the next 47 years. If you earn 9 percent compounded annually on your investment, how much will you have when you retire in 47 years? How much will you have if you wait 10 years before beginning to save and only make 37 payments into your retirement account?

• (1) How is the future, present, and past reflected in terms of interior and exterior finance?

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1. Q Corporation and R Inc. are two companies with very similar characteristics. The only difference between the two companies is that Q Corp. is an unlevered firm, and R Inc. is a levered firm with debt of $5 million and cost of debt of 10%. Both companies have earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $2 million and a marginal corporate tax rate of 40%. Q Corp. has a cost of capital of 15%.                         (20 marks total)

a. What is Q’s firm value?                                                                                     

b. What is R’s firm value?                                                                                      

c.   What is R’s equity value?                                                                         (1 mark)

d. What is Q’s cost of equity capital?                                                        (1 mark)

e. What is R’s cost of equity capital?                                                       .

f.   What is Q’s WACC?                                                                                     (1 mark)

g. What is R’s WACC?                                                                                  

h. Compare the WACC of the two companies. What do you conclude?       (1 mark)

i.    What principle have you proven in this case?                                                (1 mark)

j.   Both companies are now evaluating a project that requires an initial investment of $1.15 million and that will yield cash inflows of $500,000 per year for the next three years. Assume that this project has the same risk level as the individual firm’s assets. Should Q invest in this project? Should R invest in this project?                                                                                                                               

k. Based on your results for part (j), discuss the effects of leverage and its tax shields effects on the future value of the two firms.                                 (1 mark)

You are planning to purchase a new car explain whether it is to your advantage to lease or buy your new car, and why. What did you have to consider about your personal circumstances before making this decision? What are the potential drawbacks of your decision?

1. One argument for high dividend payout is the desire of investors for current income. Explain why this argument does/does not work in a perfect capital market with no transaction costs. Explain how this argument does/does not work in real life.

​(Operating leverage​) The Quarles Distributing Company manufactures an assortment of cold air intake systems for​ high-performance engines. The average selling price for the various units is ​$600 . The associated variable cost is ​$400 per unit. Fixed costs for the firm average $ 190 comma 000 annually. a. What is the​ break-even point in units for the​ company? b. What is the dollar sales volume the firm must achieve to reach the​ break-even point? c. What is the degree of operating leverage for a production and sales level of 5 comma 000 units for the​ firm? (Calculate to three decimal​ places.) d. What will be the projected effect on earnings before interest and taxes if the​ firm's sales level should increase by 50 percent from the volume noted in part ​(c​)?

Bahamas Inc. is experiencing rapid growth. The company expects dividends to grow at 15 % per year for the next 4 years before leveling off at 6% into perpetuity. The required return on the company's stock is 11 percent. The dividend per share just paid was $1.25. 1) calculate the current market value of Bahamas Inc.'s stock. 2) calculate the expected market price of the share in one year. 3) calculate the expected dividend yield and capital gains yield expected at the end of the first year.