Harvey’s REIT is a company that invests in income generating land and buildings. Since Harvey’s is organized as a REIT it must pay out most if not all of its income to shareholders as a dividend. Since the firm is a “pass through” vehicle (passes income straight threw to investors), the REIT pays no taxes (its investors get taxed at the personal level with all income treated as ordinary income). With little retained earnings, new real estate acquisitions are debt or equity financed.

Harvey has two categories of investment. One category is hotels and the second is land for special events parking. The land business is very interesting because you can simply buy the land and there is little or no working capital or capital expenditure needs since the land is often just fields near ballparks, state fairs, concert facilities, etc…

For most of Harvey’s businesses, the cash flow grows at roughly the inflation rate. Hotel fares and parking rates trend up with inflation. Acquisitions rarely add much value, since they are bought in competitive real estate markets. What you pay is pretty close to the discounted cash flow value of what you buy. No acquisitions are currently on the radar and most believe that there should be little “value from future acquisitions” in Harvey’s REIT share prices.

Harvey has entertained breaking up the two units perhaps by divesting one and keeping the other. He wonders what each unit is worth. Here are the cash flows of each business

Hotels: FCF = 90m upcoming year

Parking land FCF = 30m upcoming year

Both business are expected to grow their FCF at 2.4% in perpetuity (due to inflation)

Recall from your prior classes a growing perpetuity is worth:  

Value now = FCF(upcoming year) / (discount rate on FCF – growth rate in perpetuity)

For the most part, given the absence of taxes, it is believed that the firm’s situation approximates perfect market conditions (assuming debt is not 75% plus of total financing which could raise bankruptcy concerns).

Similar (non-taxed) REITS have the following data:

Pure plays (MV stands for market Value and all figures in millions):

The land parking business is unique in the world of publicly traded equities. There are no pure plays out there. All the above firms with D/E below 1.1 are able to borrow at approximately 4.5%. The market risk premium is 5% and the risk free rate is 4.5%. The same is true for Harvey.

Harvey currently has market value of debt = 1000m

Harvey has a market value of equity = 1500m

Harvey has an equity beta of 0.9.

Harvey does not “allocate debt” between divisions. He views the debt ratio of each to be the same.

Assume that Harvey views the market valuation of his firm as likely accurate – he believes that markets are “efficient.” He also views the valuation of competitors as reasonably accurate. He thinks the listed hotel competitors have properties with fairly similar risk, but realizes there may be slight errors in beta estimates (up or down) and averages of beta will have less errors.

How can Harvey figure out the value of his hotel business (not equity or debt pieces, the whole value) and what is the estimate for it? Show the steps for doing so for partial credit

What is the value of the Land business, its’ WACC, and its’ unlevered beta?

Assume that no divestiture takes place. If the Land business got an unexpected opportunity to acquire a piece of land that would generate FCF = 2m growing at 2.4% in perpetuity, and it had an asking price of 48m, should it do the deal? Why or why not?

Some at the firm say that 2/48 = 4.1667%. They note that the accounting return is not even sufficient to cover the cost of borrowing (if the project is financed with all debt) and therefore the project should not be taken. Does this logic make sense? Explain why or why not? (An explanation of what is right or wrong with argument would be useful.

I wanted to know what Kind of Anova do I run for those two tables. and how my anova would look like.

I wanted to know what Kind of Anova do I run for those two tables. and how my anova would look like.

QUESTION NO 1

A)For the following given research title come up with the research hypothetical model, describe specifically about dependent and independent variables? (100 Words)

• The impact of sleep deprivation on stress at workplace and employee performance

. • The impact of video games on child behavior and their mental health.

• The impact of flexible environment on employee motivation and his performance at workplace.

•Consumer Buying Behavior in Shopping Stores: Impact of Store Dimensions and Demographics

. • Effects of Coaching and Mentoring On Employee Performance in The Uk Hotel Industry.

Exercise 12.7 Rivalry and excludability

For each of the following goods or bads, decide whether they are rival and whether they are excludable, and explain your answer. If you think the answer depends on factors not specified here, explain how.

A free public lecture held at a university lecture theatre

Noise produced by aircraft around an international airport

A public park

A forest used by local people to collect firewood

Seats in a theatre to watch a musical

Bicycles available to the public to hire to travel around a city

Many hotel chains that offer free Wi-Fi service to their customers have experienced issues regarding demand for Internet bandwidth and costs. Marriott International would like to test the hypothesis that the proportion of customers that are carrying two Wi-Fi devices is equal to 0.40. A random sample of 200 Marriott customers found that 82 have two Wi-Fi devices. Marriott International would like to set the level of significance equal to 0.05.

Determine the level of significance

Determine the rejection region

1 Why do most project managers not recognize that they either need or can use the skills required to perform as an Imagineering project manager?

2 What is the fundamental difference between a ride and an attraction?

3 What are some of the differences between traditional brainstorming and Imagineering brainstorming?

4 How many project constraints are there on a traditional theme park attraction?

5 How would you prioritize the constraints?

6 Why is it necessary to consider cost before the Imagineering brainstorming sessions are completed?

Q. In how many ways can seven businessmen attending a convention be assigned to one triple and two double hotel rooms?

Q. On a Friday morning, the pro shop of a tennis club has 10 identical cans of tennis balls. If they are all sold by Sunday night and we are interested only in how many were sold on each day, in how many different ways could the cans of tennis balls has been sold on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday?