**Ratings Table:**| Company | Moody's Rating and Date | Standard and Poor’s Global Rating and Last Reviewed Date ||---|---|---|| DLTR | Baa207 July 2023 | BBB19 January 2023 || TGT | A229 March 2023 | A16 March 2023 |**b. Explanation:**Explain what the ratings mean based on each agency's credit rating. Based on the ratings, which company would you invest in for the company's long-term debt issuance? Why?

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DLTR TGT Moody's Rating and Date Baa2 07 July 2023 A2 29, March 2023 Standard and Poor's Global Rating and last Reviewed Date BBB 19 January 2023 A 16, March 2023 b. Explain what the ratings mean based on each agencies credit rating. Based on the ratings which company would you invest in the company's long term debt issuance? Why?

DLTR TGT Moody's Rating and Date Baa2 07 July 2023 A2 29, March 2023 Standard and Poor's Global Rating and last Reviewed Date BBB 19 January 2023 A 16, March 2023 b. Explain what the ratings mean based on each agencies credit rating. Based on the ratings which company would you invest in the company's long term debt issuance? Why?

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Use the following information to answer the question(s) below. Consider the following information regarding corporate bonds: AAA Rating Average Default Rate 0.0% Recession Default Rate 0.0% B CCC 5.5% 12.2% AA A BBB BB 0.1% 0.2% 0.5% 2.2% 1.0% 3.0% 3.0% 8.0% 16.0% 48.0% Average Beta 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.10 0.17 0.26 0.31 Nielson Motors plans to issue 10-year bonds that it believes will have a BBB rating. Suppose AAA bonds with the same maturity have a 3.5 % yield. Assume that the market risk premium is 5% and the expected loss rate in the event of default on the bonds is 60%. The yield that these bonds will have to pay during average economic times is closest to: O 5.50%. O 4.00%. 3.50%. O 3.75%.
Attached is Apple Inc.'s financial information. Please answer questions 1-3. 1. Apple's acid-test ratio in 2021 is a. 1.49 b. 1.22 c. 1.56 d. 0.91 2. Apple's days' sales in receivables in 2021 is a. 61.26 b. 50.69 c. 38.27 d. 46.18 3. Apple's long term debt to equity ratio in 2021 is a. 2.54 b. 1.64 c. 0.87 d. 1.89
A Bank has the following Credit Portfolio Loan Expected Portfolio Volatility Amount Return Credit A $1.0 10.0% 1.0% Credit B $1.5 12.0% 2.0% Credit C $3.0 14.0% 3.0% Credit D $0.5 16.0% 4.0% Credit E $0.2 18.0% 5.0% Credit F $2.0 20.0% 6.0% What is the risk in decimals on the bank's loan portfolio if loan returns are correlated as follows? (Round to two decimals) Credit A Credit B Credit C Credit D Credit E Credit F Credit A 0.4 -0.5 0.2 -0.3 -0.8 Credit B 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 Credit C -0.1 -0.8 -0.9 Credit D 0.2 0.4 Credit E -0.2 Credit F
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RATIO ANALYSIS. Debt Ratio Activity 6 · Understand the information provided by the debt ratio. · Identify the expected range and whether an increasing or decreasing trend is preferred. Purpose: The debt ratio compares total liabilities to total assets. This ratio measures the proportion of assets financed by debt. It is a measure of long-term solvency. Total liabilities DEBT RATI0 = Total assets JOHNSON & CITIGROUP 12/31/99 HEWLETT- PACKARD 10/3 1/99 JOHNSON 1/03/99 WAL-MART 1/31/99 ($ in 000s) Assets $716,937,000 $35,297,000 $26,211,000 $49,996,000 Liabilities 667,251,000 17,002,000 12,621.000 28,884,000 Stockholders' Equity $ 49,686,000 $18,295,000 $13,590,000 $21,112,000 Source: Disclosure, Inc, Compact D/SEC, 2000. 1. For each-company listed above, compute the debt ratio. Record your results below. Debt ratio: 0.93 2. The debt ratios computed above are primarily in the ranġe (less than 0,40 / 0.40 through 0.70 / over 0.70): 3. % of Wal-Mart's assets are financed by debt. 4.…
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