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Finance Questions FINANCE QUESTIONS Imagine I own two bonds. Bond 1 promises to return to me 15 dollars 2 years from now. The bond 2 promises to return to me 20 dollars 3 years from now. What happens to the value of these two bonds if interest rates rise? (1 points) Which bond will change in value the most? (1 points) Consider the following investment decision: I am considering two investment options that are not mutually exclusive . This means that both of these options can be funded or neither of them might be funded. One has a net present value of 20, the other has a net present value of 50 if my WACC is 5%. If my WACC increases to 7%, the net present values then become 0 and 30. What should I do if my WACC is 5% now? (1 points) What should I do if my WACC doubles to 10%? How does this change my decision? (1 points)
I am considering two investment choices and I must pick one of them OR Neither of them. I cannot pick both. The first opportunity requires an investment of 50 dollars today and will return 10 dollars per year forever. The other opportunity requires 300 dollars of investment today and will return 30 dollars per year forever. What should I do if my cost of capital is 10% (1 points) What should I do if my cost of capital is 5% (1 points) Given a risk free rate of 2%, a market return of 8%, What is the beta of a portfolio constructed of these 2 securities : (1 points) A. 30% stock 1 with expected return of 8% B. 70% stock 2 with expected return of 10%
If both the inflation rate doubles, what is the new beta of the portfolio above? (2 points) (3 Points) I am considering an investment in a cost reduction technology. There are 2 competing solutions and I know 1 of them will prevail. Right now, each looks equally likely to succeed. I have not skills at all in either of these two technologies. It is estimated that 5 years from now, 1 of the 2 technologies will prevail and result in cost reductions that will result in 1 billion dollars of extra NOPAT that is expected to grow a 2% per year forever.
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What is the most I would be willing to pay today in order to have the option to adopt one of these two technologies in the future? Assume my WACC is 8% and my Tax rate does not matter since I gave you the NOPAT number above. The value of C dollars per year growing at X% forever = C/(r-x) where r is the expected return on the money.
(3 Points) I currently run a web services hosting business similar to Amazon Web Services. Web services companies trade in the stock market with a beta of 1.0 I am considering buying an oil drilling supply business. It generates 1 billion dollars of sales with a pretax operating profit of 50%. I pay 20% taxes and my WACC is 10%. The business is not growing but it is not expected to shrink either and the profit margins have been stable for many years. I can buy this business for 2 billion today. Oil drilling companies trade in the stock market with a beta of 2.0 What should I do? Assume a risk-free rate of return equal to 3% Assume you have no debt and do not plan to have debt in the future