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Calmex is situated in North India. It specialises in
manufacturing overhead water tanks. The management of Calmex has
identified a niche market in certain southern cities that need a
particular size of water tank not currently manufactured by the
company. The company is thus thinking of producing a new type of
tank. The survey of company’s marketing department reveals that the
company could sell 1,20,000 tanks each year for 6 years at a price
of Rs 700 each. The company’s current facilities cannot be used to
manufacture new tanks. Thus it will have to buy new machinery. A
manufacturer has offered 2 options to the company.
1st option: Buy 4 small machines with the capacity of manufacturing
30,000 tanks each at Rs 15 million each. The machine operation and
manufacturing cost of each tank will be Rs 535.
2nd option: Buy 1 large machine with the capacity of 120000 units
p.a. for Rs 120 million. The machine operation and manufacturing
cost of each tank will be Rs 400.
The company is looking at raising the required capital through a
mix of debt, equity and retained earnings in the proportion of 0.5,
0.25 and 0.25 respectively. The company has just declared a
dividend of 15% on equity share of face value of Rs 100 each. The
expected future growth rate in dividend is 12% p.a. The equity
share is currently trading at a price of Rs 168. The bonds of face
value Rs 1000 and coupon rate of 16% p.a. is currently trading at
Rs 900. Five years remain to maturity and bonds are redeemable at
Rs 1100. Assume the applicable tax rate to be 50%. Which option
should the company accept? Use alternative techniques of evaluation
(NPV, Payback period and Profitability index).
there is no flotation cost in orginal question
COST OF CAPITAL: | ||||||
Cost of Equity: | ||||||
D0=Current Dividend=15%*100= | 15 | |||||
D1=Next Years dividend=15*1.12= | 16.8 | |||||
Cost of Equity =Required Return =(D1/P0)+g | ||||||
P0=Current Price=168 | ||||||
g=growth rate of dividend=0.12 | ||||||
Ce | Cost of Equity=16.8/168+0.12=0.22 | 22.00% | ||||
Cost of Debt: | ||||||
Nper | Number of years to maturity of bonds | 5 | ||||
Pmt | Annual coupon payment=1000*16%= | 160 | ||||
Pv | Current market price | 900 | ||||
Fv | Redeemable price at maturity | 1100 | ||||
RATE | Yield to maturity(Using RATE function of excel) | 20.72% | ||||
Before tax cost of debt | 20.72% | |||||
Cd | After tax cost of debt =20.72*(1-tax rate) | 10.36% | (20.72*(1-0.5) | |||
We | Weight of Debt | 0.5 | ||||
Ce | Weight of Equity | 0.5 | ||||
Weighted Average Cost of Capital =We*Ce+Wd*Cd | 16.2% | (0.5*10.36+0.5*22) | ||||
EVALUATION OF 1st OPTION-4 small machines | ||||||
ICF | Initial Cash Flow=15 million*4 | (60,000,000) | ||||
Rate | Discount Rate =Cost of Capital | 16.2% | ||||
Nper | Number of years of cash inflow | 6 | ||||
Pmt | Annual Cash inflow=120000*(700-535) | 19,800,000 | ||||
PV | Present Value of cash inflows | 72,610,306 | ||||
(Using PV function of excel) | ||||||
NPV=PV+ICF | Net Present Value | 12,610,306 | ||||
Profitability Index=PI=(NPV+Initial Investment)/Initial Investment | ||||||
Profitability Index=PI=(12610306+60000000)/60000000 | 1.21 | |||||
Payback Period =Initial investment/Annual cash inflow | ||||||
Payback Period =60000000/19800000 | 3.03 | Years | ||||
EVALUATION OF 2nd OPTION-One large machine | ||||||
ICF | Initial Cash Flow | (120,000,000) | ||||
Rate | Discount Rate =Cost of Capital | 16.2% | ||||
Nper | Number of years of cash inflow | 6 | ||||
Pmt | Annual Cash inflow=120000*(700-400) | 36,000,000 | ||||
PV | Present Value of cash inflows | 132,018,738 | ||||
(Using PV function of excel) | ||||||
NPV=PV+ICF | Net Present Value | 12,018,738 | ||||
Profitability Index=PI=(12018738+120000000)/120000000 | 1.10 | |||||
Payback Period =120000000/36000000 | 3.33 | Years | ||||
Alternative-1 : 4 small machine should be selected | ||||||
It has highrer NPV,Higher PI and lower Payback period | ||||||
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