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2. Business and financial risk The impact of financial leverage on return on equity and earnings per share Consider the following case of Purple Panda Importers: Suppose Purple Panda Importers is considering a project that will require $350,000 in assets. • The company is small, so it is exempt from the interest deduction limitation under the new tax law. • The project is expected to produce earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $60,000. • Common equity outstanding will be 25,000 shares. • The company incurs a tax rate of 25%. If the project is financed using 100% equity capital, then Purple Panda Importers's return on equity (ROE) on the project will be addition, Purple Panda's earnings per share (EPS) will be Alternatively, Purple Panda Importers's CFO is also considering financing the project with 50% debt and 50% equity capital. The company's debt will be 10%. Because the company will finance only 50% of the project with equity, it will have only 12,500 shar Panda…

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5. Problem 14.07 (Financial Leverage Effects) The Neal Company wants to estimate next year's return on equity (ROE) under different financial leverage ratios. Neal's total capital is $19 million, it currently uses only common equity, it has no future plans to use preferred stock in its capital structure, and its federal-plus-state tax rate is 25%. Neal is a small firm with average sales of $25 million or less during the past 3 years, so it is exempt from the interest deduction limitation. The CFO has estimated next year's EBIT for three possible states of the world: $4.8 million with a 0.2 probability, $3.5 million with a 0.5 probability, and $700,000 with a 0.3 probability. Calculate Neal's expected ROE, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation for each of the following debt-to-capital ratios. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places. Debt/Capital ratio is 0. RÔE: O: CV: RÔE: Debt/Capital ratio is 10%, interest rate is 9%. RÔE: eBook O:…

11.3 Hau Lee Furniture, Inc., described in Example 1 of this chapter, finds its current profit of $10,000 inadequate. The bank is insisting on an improved profit picture prior to approval of a loan for some new equipment. Hau would like to improve the profit line to $25,000 so he can obtain the bank’s approval for the loan. a) What percentage improvement is needed in the supply chain strategy for profit to improve to $25,000? What is the cost of material with a $25,000 profit? b) What percentage improvement is needed in the sales strategy for profit to improve to $25,000? What must sales be for profit to improve to $25,000?   Please provide steps so that I can better understand how the answer is found.

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b. Suppose you discover that Chiptech’s competitor has developed a new chip that will eliminate Chiptech’s current technological advantage in this market. This new product, which will be ready to come to the market in two years, will force Chiptech to reduce the prices of its chips to remain competitive. This will decrease ROE to 19%, and, because of falling demand for its product, Chiptech will decrease the plowback ratio to 0.5. The plowback ratio will be decreased at the end of the second year, at t = 2: The annual year-end dividend for the second year (paid at t = 2) will be 50% of that year’s earnings. What is your estimate of Chiptech’s intrinsic value per share? (Hint: Carefully prepare a table of Chiptech’s earnings and dividends for each of the next three years. Pay close attention to the change in the payout ratio in t = 2.) (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) At time 2= At time 0= c. No one else in the market perceives the threat to Chiptech’s market. In fact, you are…

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ences Mc Graw Hill ! 1 Arnold Vimka is a venture capitalist facing two alternative investment opportunities. He intends to invest $1 million in a start-up firm. He is nervous, however, about future economic volatility. He asks you to analyze the following financial data for the past year's operations of the two firms he is considering and give him some business advice. Q Variable cost per unit (a) Sales revenue (8,400 units × $31.00) Variable cost (8,400 units x a) Contribution margin Fixed cost Net income Required Required B Company Name Operating leverage 7 2 Required a. Use the contribution margin approach to compute the operating leverage for each firm. b. If the economy expands in coming years, Larson and Benson will both enjoy a 10 percent per year increase in sales, assuming that the selling price remains unchanged. Compute the change in net income for each firm in dollar amount and in percentage. (Note: Since the number of units increases, both revenue and variable cost will…

Question 1 a.Briefly describe the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and explain the meaning of the beta (β) coefficient. b.SpaceFlight is a large company with two departments: private space travel and air transport. Each department currently finances its activities through 48% of debt finance, 37% of ordinary equity, and 15% of preferred equity. The cost of preferred equity is equal to 10%. The company’s borrowing rate is 9%, while the tax rate is 25%. SpaceFlight’s management would like to know the minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for each department. Since it is not possible to compute the beta values for the two departments, the management has identified two companies operating within the same sectors and with a capital structure similar to that of SpaceFlight. These companies will serve as appropriate proxies for the required beta values. The first company is a key operator in the private space travel sector and has a beta of 1.3, while the second company is…

1. Edmund Enterprises recently made a large investment to upgrade its technology. Although these improvements won’t have much effect on performance in the short run, they are expected to reduce future costs significantly. What effect will this investment have on Edmund Enterprises’ earnings per share this year? What effect might this investment have on the company’s intrinsic value and stock price? 2. Suppose you are a director of an energy company that has three divisions—natural gas, oil, and retail (gas stations). These divisions operate independently from one another, but all division managers report to the firm’s CEO. If you were on the compensation committee, as discussed in Question 1-12, and your committee was asked to set the compensation for the three division managers, would you use the same criteria as that used for the firm’s CEO? Explain your reasoning

Companies invest in expansion projects with the expectation of increasing the earnings of its business. Consider the case of McFann Co.: McFann Co. is considering an investment that will have the following sales, variable costs, and fixed operating costs: Year 4 Year 3 4,100 4,300 4,400 $30.31 $33.19 $30.00 $13.45 $14.02 $14.55 $41,670 $41,890 $40,100 Year 1 Year 2 Unit sales. 4,200 $29.82 Sales price Variable cost per unit $12.15 Fixed operating costs $41,000 This project will require an investment of $20,000 in new equipment. Under the new tax law, the equipment is eligible for 100% bonus deprecation at t=0, so it will be fully depreciated at the time of purchase. The equipment will have no salvage value at the end of the project's four-year life. McFann pays a constant tax rate of 25%, and it has a weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of 11%. Determine what the project's net present value (NPV) would be under the new tax law. Which of the following most closely approximates what…

You have calculated the WACC for a Company and noticed that it is too high. To reduce it, you could: 1.Increase the tax rate   2.Increase the Equity weighting in the WACC calculation   3.Decrease the Risk-Free rate   4.Increase the Equity Risk Premium   5.Decrease the Perpetuity Growth Rate   1 and 2   1 and 3   2 and 3   2, 3 and 4   1, 2, and 5

You are trying to value Lucid Motors using comparables analysis. You believe Lucid Motors should be valued similarly to TSLA and that TSLA is the only reasonable comparison. TSLA is currently trading at 10.7x Enterprise Value/Revenue. Lucid is expected to generate $2.2bn in revenues this year. How mucb should you be willing to value Lucid in terms of enterprise Value (assuming market is correct)?   $20.6bn $23.5bn $15.4 bn $21.7 bn

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