Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
8th Edition
ISBN: 9781285190907
Author: James M. Wahlen, Stephen P. Baginski, Mark Bradshaw
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Labrador technologies Inc. plans to become public soon. The board of directors would like to know the value of common equity and have asked for your opinion. The firm has $1,249,917 in preferred equity and the market value of its outstanding debt equals $2,049,396. The WACC for this firm is estimated to be 8.92%. For this example assume the current assets are zero. Use the DCF valuation model with the expected FCFs shown below; year 1 represents one year from today and so on. The company expects to grow at a 3.0% rate after Year 5. Rounding to the nearest penny, what is the value of common equity? Free Cash Period Flow Year 1 $1,370,274 Year 2 $1,761,479 Year 3 $1,909,652 Year 4 $2,361,090 Year 5 $2,744,645
see attached Westfield Capital Management Co.’s equity investment strategy is to invest in companies with low price-to-book ratios, while considering differences in solvency and asset utilization. Westfield is considering investing in the shares of either Jerry’s Departmental Stores ( JDS) or Miller Stores (MLS). Selected financial data for both companies follow:   Required: ComputeeachofthefollowingratiosforbothJDSandMLS: (1) Price-to-bookratio(2) Total-debt-to-equityratio(3) Fixed-asset-utilization(turnover) Select the company that better meets Westfield’s criteria.
4. (Question 4 is composed of two parts.) The DuPont formula defines the net return on shareholders' equity as a function of the following components: • Operating margin Asset turnover Interest burden Financial leverage Income tax rate Using only the data in the table shown below: a. Calculate each of the five components listed above for 2010 and 2014, and calculate the return on equity (ROE) for 2010 and 2014, using all of the five components. Show calculations. b. Briefly discuss the impact of the changes in asset turnover and financial leverage on the change in ROE from 2010 to 2014. Income Statement Data Revenues Operating income Depreciation and amortization Interest expense Pretax income Income taxes Net income after tax Balance Sheet Data Fixed assets Total assets Working capital Total debt Total shareholders' equity 2010 $542 38 3 3 32 13 19 2010 $41 245 123 16 159 2014 $979 76 9 0 67 37 30 2014 $70 291 157 0 220
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