Imprudential, Incorporated, has an unfunded pension liability of $850 million that must be paid in 22 years. To assess the value of the firm's stock, financial analysts want to discount this liability back to the present. If the relevant discount rate is 9.5 percent, what is the present value of this liability?

Imprudential, Incorporated, has an unfunded pension liability of $850 million that must be paid in 22 years. To assess the value of the firm's stock, financial analysts want to discount this liability back to the present. If the relevant discount rate is 9.5 percent, what is the present value of this liability?

Essentials Of Investments

11th Edition

ISBN:9781260013924

Author:Bodie, Zvi, Kane, Alex, MARCUS, Alan J.

Publisher:Bodie, Zvi, Kane, Alex, MARCUS, Alan J.

Chapter1: Investments: Background And Issues

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1PS

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

ABC Corporation invested in one of DEF's ordinary shares that has a par value of P500 and a market value of P625 on January 1, 2021. The 2020 dividend paid to each shareholder amounted to P120. The dividend rate is not expected to grow. what is the value if the required rate of return is 17%? *
Harrington Enterprises’ has issued preferred stock, but its annual dividends will not begin until 7 years from now. The annual dividend is set at $10. If the discount rate is 6%, what should the current market price of Harrington be? please show all work step by step
Assume that an investor expects 18X their investment into a company. Assume the post money exit valuation of a company is going to be $3.6 Million. Assume that the investor's investment into the company is going to be $130,000. Assume the company will likely have 14 employees at the point of the liquidation event. According to the investor's expectations, at the point when the investor invests their money, what proportion of the company will the investor own? O a. 3.6% O b. 50.5% Oc. 35% O d. 65% 18%
Castle Company’s pension fund projected that a significant number of its employees would take advantage of a retirement program the company plans to offer in 10 years. Anticipating the need to fund these pensions, the firm bought zero coupon Government of Canada bonds maturing in 10 years. When these instruments were originally issued, they were 6% semiannual 30-year bonds. The stripped bonds are currently priced to yield 3.75%. Their total maturity value is $18,000,000. What is their total cost (price) to Castle today?
XYZ Electronics Inc. is all equity financed and generates perpetual annual EBIT of $600. Assume that the EBIT, and all other cash flows, occur at year end and that we are currently at the beginning of a year. Assume that XYZ has a 100% payout rate, 5,000 shares outstanding, and that shareholders require a return of 5%. Assume that the tax rate is 0%. XYZ is considering an open market stock repurchase. It plans to buy 20% of its outstanding shares at the price of $4.00 per share. The repurchased shares will be cancelled. It will finance the repurchase by issuing perpetual bonds with a coupon rate (and yield) of 3%. Assume that the tax rate is 0%. If XYZ goes ahead with the repurchase, then what is the value of the company after the repurchase is complete?
Linkcomn expects an Eamnings after Taxes of 7500005 every year. The firm currently has 100% Equity and cost of raising equity is 12%. If the company can borrow debt with an interest of 10% What will be the value of the company if the company takes on a debt equal to 60% of its unlevered value? What will be the value of the company if the company takes on a debt equal to 50% of its levered value? Assume the company's tax rate is 30% (Must show the steps of calculation)
As the chief financial officer of Adirondack Designs, you have the following information: Next year's expected net income after tax but before new financing Sinking-fund payments due next year on the existing debt Interest due next year on the existing debt Common stock price, per share Common shares outstanding Company tax rate $ 37 million $12 million $7 million $26.5 17 million 45% a. Calculate Adirondack's times-interest-earned ratio for next year assuming the firm raises $47 million of new debt at an interest rate of 5 percent b. Calculate Adirondack's times-burden-covered ratio for next year assuming annual sinking-fund payments on the new debt will equal $3.0 million c. Calculate next year's earnings per share assuming Adirondack raises the $47 million of new debt d. Calculate next year's times-interest-earned ratio, times-burden-covered ratio, and earnings per share if Adirondack sells 1.2 million new shares at $22 a share instead of raising new debt. Note: Do not round…
Metallica Bearings, Inc., is a young start-up company. No dividends will be paid on the stock over the next 10 years because the firm needs to plow back its earnings to fuel growth. The company will then pay a dividend of $13.50 per share 11 years from today and will increase the dividend by 5.25 percent per year thereafter. If the required return on this stock is 13.25 percent, what is the current share price? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Current share price
Other relevant information about the company follows: The 20-year Treasury Bond rate is currently 4.5 percent and you have estimated market-risk premium to be 6.75 percent using the returns on stocks and Treasury bonds from 2010 to 2019. Pharmos Incorporated has a marginal tax rate of 25 percent. Required: Answer the following questions given the information above Calculate to the following for Pharmos considering its tax rate of 25%:i. Total Market Value for the Firmii. After-tax cost of Loan NO EXCEL SPREADSHEETS SHOW FULL WORKINGS WITHOUT EXCEL
Procter and Gamble (PG) paid an annual dividend of $2.83 in 2021. You expect PG to increase its dividends by 7.5% per year for the next five years (through 2026), and thereafter by 3.2% per year. If the appropriate equity cost of capital for Procter and Gamble is 8.5% per year, use the dividend-discount model to estimate its value per share at the end of 2021.
Bloom Company Limited expects its EBIT to be $80,000 every year forever. The firm canborrow at 9 percent. The firm currently has no debt, and its cost of equity is 13 percent. Thetax rate is 35 percent. The firm will borrow $100,000 and use the proceeds to repurchase shares. You are required to answer the following:(a) What is the value of the unlevered firm? (b) What will be the value of firm after recapitalization? (c) What is the value of equity in the recapitalized firm? (d) What is the Weighted Cost of Capital of the levered firm?
It is January 2023 and you are the CFO of Metrix Systems the firm does not reinvest any of its eamings it will expect to achieve Corp. The firm only 5 points Save Ansa pays dividends. The firm is expecting earnings per share (EPS) of $10 at the end of this year. If the same EPS of $10 each year in perpetuity. You are considering changing the dividend policy of the payout rate of 60% each year. The firm's return on new investment is 18% and its cost of equity capital (r) is 12%. Calculate the best one. firm. Specifically, you want the firm to target a the share price under the proposed payout policy. Select the best one $ 98.33 $166.67 $83.33 $223.33 $125

SEE MORE QUESTIONS

Recommended textbooks for you

Essentials Of Investments

Finance

ISBN:

9781260013924

Author:

Bodie, Zvi, Kane, Alex, MARCUS, Alan J.

Publisher:

Mcgraw-hill Education,

FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE

Finance

ISBN:

9781260013962

Author:

BREALEY

Publisher:

RENT MCG

Financial Management: Theory & Practice

Finance

ISBN:

9781337909730

Author:

Brigham

Publisher:

Cengage

Foundations Of Finance

Finance

ISBN:

9780134897264

Author:

KEOWN, Arthur J., Martin, John D., PETTY, J. William

Publisher:

Pearson,

Fundamentals of Financial Management (MindTap Cou…

Finance

ISBN:

9781337395250

Author:

Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston

Publisher:

Cengage Learning

Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series i…

Finance

ISBN:

9780077861759

Author:

Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan Professor

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Education

Essentials Of Investments

Finance

ISBN:

9781260013924

Author:

Bodie, Zvi, Kane, Alex, MARCUS, Alan J.

Publisher:

Mcgraw-hill Education,

FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE

Finance

ISBN:

9781260013962

Author:

BREALEY

Publisher:

RENT MCG

Financial Management: Theory & Practice

Finance

ISBN:

9781337909730

Author:

Brigham

Publisher:

Cengage

Foundations Of Finance

Finance

ISBN:

9780134897264

Author:

KEOWN, Arthur J., Martin, John D., PETTY, J. William

Publisher:

Pearson,

Fundamentals of Financial Management (MindTap Cou…

Finance

ISBN:

9781337395250

Author:

Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston

Publisher:

Cengage Learning

Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series i…

Finance

ISBN:

9780077861759

Author:

Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan Professor

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Education

SEE MORE TEXTBOOKS