EBK FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCE
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Chapter 11, Problem 16SP
(Real options and capital budgeting) You have come up with a great idea for a Tex-Mex-Thai fusion restaurant. After doing a financial analysis of this venture, you estimate that the initial outlay will be $6 million. You also estimate that there is a 50 percent chance that this new restaurant will be well received and will produce annual cash flows of $800,000 per year forever (a perpetuity), while there is a 50 percent chance of it producing a cash flow of only $200,000 per year forever (a perpetuity) if it isn’t received well.
- a. What is the
NPV of the restaurant if the requiredrate of return you use to discount the project cash flows is 10 percent? - b. What are the real options that this analysis may be ignoring?
- c. Explain why the project may be worthwhile, even though you have just estimated that its NPV is negative.
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