An investor with a leverage ratio of 10 has a cost of debt of
4%pa and...
An investor with a leverage ratio of 10 has a cost of debt of
4%pa and is able to buy a portfolio of shares with a yield of 6%.
What are the investor's ROA and ROE? (The correct answer is ROA =
2.4%; ROE = 24%)
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1) A bank with a leverage ratio of 20 has a cost of debt of
1.5%pa and a portfolio of assets with an expected yield of 3.5%pa.
What are the expected ROA net of debt funding costs and the
expected ROE of the bank, using the approach to defining leverage
taken in the lecture slides? Show your workings. (2 marks)
2) What will the ROA and ROE actually be if the yield on assets
turns out to be 3%? Show...
1) A bank with a leverage ratio of 20 has a cost of debt of
1.5%pa and a portfolio of assets with an expected yield of 3.5%pa.
What are the expected ROA net of debt funding costs and the
expected ROE of the bank, using the approach to defining leverage
taken in the lecture slides? Show your workings.
2) What will the ROA and ROE actually be if the yield on assets
turns out to be 3%? Show your workings....
1) A bank with a leverage ratio of 15 has a cost of debt of 2%pa
and a portfolio of assets with an expected yield of 4%pa. What are
the expected ROA net of debt funding costs and the expected ROE of
the bank, using the approach to defining leverage taken in the
lecture slides? Show your workings.
2) What will the ROA and ROE actually be if the yield on assets
turns out to be 3%? Show your workings....
1) A bank with a leverage ratio of 15 has a cost of debt of 2%pa
and a portfolio of assets with an expected yield of 4%pa. What are
the expected ROA net of debt funding costs and the expected ROE of
the bank, using the approach to defining leverage taken in the
lecture slides? Show your workings.
2) What will the ROA and ROE actually be if the yield on assets
turns out to be 3%? Show your workings....
14-4 a. For Company LL (Low Leverage),
the total assets is $20,000,000, Debt ratio is 30%, the interest
rate is 10%, tax rate is 40%, and EBIT is $4,000,000. What’s LL’s
return on equity (ROE)? ROE = Net Income / Equity
20,000,000x30%=600,000
Fro Company HL (High Leverage), the
total assets is $20,000,000, Debt ratio is 50%, the interest rate
is 12%, tax rate is 40%, and EBIT is $4,000,000. What’s HL’s return
on equity (ROE)?
b. IF Company...
Maxwell Industries has a debt–equity ratio of 1.5. WACC is 10
percent, and its cost of debt is 7 percent. The corporate tax rate
is 35 percent. a. What is the company’s cost of equity capital? b.
What is the company’s unlevered cost of equity capital? c. What
would the cost of equity be if the debt–equity ratio were 2? What
if it were 1.0? What if it were zero? ( kindly can u explain why
are we using wacc...
Q14: Compare the financial leverage ( i.e., measured by total
debt ratio = total debt / total assets) for Microsoft (high-tech),
Target (retail) , and Citibank (bank).
Q15. How to estimate a firm’s optimal capital structure?
Q30: What are accruals? Are a firm’s accruals free or not?
Why?
A firm has a debt-equity ratio of 4. The market value of the
firm’s debt and equity is £5m. What is the value of the firm’s
debt?
A: £4.0m
B: £3.8m
C: £4.5m
D: £2.6m
A firm has a debt-equity ratio of 4. The cost of debt capital
is 8% and the cost of equity capital is 12%. What is the weighted
average cost of capital for the firm (WACC)?
A: 10.1%
B: 8.8%
C: 9.5%
D: 9.2%
Suppose Modigliani-Miller...
Dameeba Corp has a current D/V-ratio of 10% with expected cost
of debt 2,1% p.a. The levered equity beta is 0,75. An increase to a
target D/V-ratio of 90% is now planned increasing the expected cost
of debt to 4,3% p.a. The corporate tax rate is 20%. The risk-free
rate is 1% and the market risk premium 5% p.a. What will be Dameeba
Corp’s new equity beta?
a. 0,885 b. 1,142 c. 1,030 d. 1,208
03.05 Calculating Leverage Ratios
Fincher, Inc., has a total debt ratio of .19. What is its
debt–equity ratio? What is its equity multiplier?
Total Debt Ratio
0.19
Debt-Equity Ratio
Equity Multiplier
03.07 DuPont Identity If jPhone, Inc., has an
equity multiplier of 1.83, total asset turnover of 1.65, and a
profit margin of 5.2 percent, what is its ROE?
Equity Multiplier
1.83
Total Asset Turnover
1.65
Profit Margin
5.20%
ROE