Question 1 Atlantic Corporation is the largest logging company in the north eastern part of the United States. Their logging reserves are being depleted and is in turn causing sales to fall. In addition, new environmental protection policies are making it very difficult for the procurement of new logging sites. As a result, their dividends are declining at a constant rate of 5% per year. Dividends paid at the end of last year are $5 per share, and the required rate of return on the stock is 15%. What is the value of Atlantic corporation stock?    Question 2 Executives at Microsoft are interested to get into the drone delivery business. Since it would take them too much time to set up their own operation, they decide to acquire “Flyit” corporation. “Flyit” has been operating a drone delivery service for 4 years now, and they are the most successful operators in the market. Microsoft executives offer “Flyit” two purchase options. The first option is one $40 million lump sum payment. The second option is paying five annual payments of $10 million over the next five years. If the annual interest rate is 7%, find the present value of both options? Evaluate the net present values of both option and identify which option is more cost effective for Microsoft?   Question 3 Optimal corporation wants to expand their manufacturing facilities. They have two choices, first to expand the current site at a cost of $290,000 per year for two years to complete the expansion, or to sell their current site for $1.3 million and purchase a new larger facility at a cost of $900,000 in the industrial zone. If the annual interest rate is 8%, evaluate the cash flows for the two options described above and decide which is the most financially beneficial to the corporation?    Question 4 Camber Corporation has to decide if they can finance purchasing 10 new machines for all their manufacturing sites. The machines cost $1.73 million each, and the supplier agreed to the following payment terms, 40% upfront, and the remainder to be paid over 4 years at an annual rate of 12%. Executives at Camber Corporation review their budgets and discover that they can pay the supplier 40% now, but their budget will only allow them to pay $4,000,000 per year for the next four years. Will that be enough to make the purchase?   Question 5 Executives at XYZ Corporation realize that they have too much liquid assets. They want to use this cash to buy a company that has decent returns to maximize their asset utilization.  They find two companies they can buy, and want to decide if they should acquire company A or Company B. The expected returns from both companies depending on the state of the economy are shown in the table below. Each state of the economy is equally likely to happen. State of the economy Return on company A(%) Return on company B (%) Worse than expected 7.3% -4.7% Expected 11.5% 5.4% Better than expected 16.6% 24.3% Calculate the expected rate of return, and standard deviation of each company.

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Atlantic Corporation is the largest logging company in the north eastern part of the United States. Their logging reserves are being depleted and is in turn causing sales to fall. In addition, new environmental protection policies are making it very difficult for the procurement of new logging sites. As a result, their dividends are declining at a constant rate of 5% per year. Dividends paid at the end of last year are $5 per share, and the required rate of return on the stock is 15%.

What is the value of Atlantic corporation stock? 

 

Question 2

Executives at Microsoft are interested to get into the drone delivery business. Since it would take them too much time to set up their own operation, they decide to acquire “Flyit” corporation. “Flyit” has been operating a drone delivery service for 4 years now, and they are the most successful operators in the market. Microsoft executives offer “Flyit” two purchase options. The first option is one $40 million lump sum payment. The second option is paying five annual payments of $10 million over the next five years.

  1. If the annual interest rate is 7%, find the present value of both options?
  2. Evaluate the net present values of both option and identify which option is more cost effective for Microsoft?

 

Question 3

Optimal corporation wants to expand their manufacturing facilities. They have two choices, first to expand the current site at a cost of $290,000 per year for two years to complete the expansion, or to sell their current site for $1.3 million and purchase a new larger facility at a cost of $900,000 in the industrial zone.

If the annual interest rate is 8%, evaluate the cash flows for the two options described above and decide which is the most financially beneficial to the corporation? 

 

Question 4

Camber Corporation has to decide if they can finance purchasing 10 new machines for all their manufacturing sites. The machines cost $1.73 million each, and the supplier agreed to the following payment terms, 40% upfront, and the remainder to be paid over 4 years at an annual rate of 12%.

Executives at Camber Corporation review their budgets and discover that they can pay the supplier 40% now, but their budget will only allow them to pay $4,000,000 per year for the next four years. Will that be enough to make the purchase?

 

Question 5

Executives at XYZ Corporation realize that they have too much liquid assets. They want to use this cash to buy a company that has decent returns to maximize their asset utilization.  They find two companies they can buy, and want to decide if they should acquire company A or Company B. The expected returns from both companies depending on the state of the economy are shown in the table below. Each state of the economy is equally likely to happen.

State of the economy

Return on company A(%)

Return on company B (%)

Worse than expected

7.3%

-4.7%

Expected

11.5%

5.4%

Better than expected

16.6%

24.3%

Calculate the expected rate of return, and standard deviation of each company.

 

 

 

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