Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
11th Edition
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
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APV MVP, Inc., has produced rodeo supplies for over 20 years. The company currently has a debt-equity ratio of 50 percent and is in the 40 percent tax bracket. The required return on the firm's levered equity is 16 percent. The company is planning to expand its production capacity. The equipment to be purchased is expected to generate the following unlevered cash flows:
| Year | Cash Flow |
| 0 | -$15, 100,000 |
| 1 | 5,400,000 |
| 2 | 8,900,000 |
| 3 | 8,600,000 |
The company has arranged a debt issue of $8.7 million to partially finance the expansion. Under the loan, the company would pay interest of 9 percent at the end of each year on the outstanding balance at the beginning of the year. The company would also make yearend principal payments of $2,900,000 per year, completely retiring the issue by the end of the third year. Using the adjusted
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depreciated at the time of purchase. The financial staff has collected the following information on the project:
$20 million
Sales revenues
Operating costs
Interest expense
16 million
2 million
The company has a 25% tax rate, and its WACC is 13%.
Write out your answers completely. For example, 13 million should be entered as 13,000,000.
a. What is the project's operating cash flow for the first year (t = 1)? Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
b. If this project would cannibalize other projects by $1 million of cash flow before taxes per year, how would this change your answer to part a? Round your
answer to the nearest dollar.
The firm's OCF would now be $
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Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
Ch. 18 - APV How is the APV of a project calculated?Ch. 18 - WACC and APV What is the main difference between...Ch. 18 - FTE What is the main difference between the FTE...Ch. 18 - Prob. 4CQCh. 18 - Prob. 5CQCh. 18 - NPV and APV Zoso is a rental car company that is...Ch. 18 - APV Gemini, Inc., an all-equity firm, is...Ch. 18 - Prob. 3QPCh. 18 - Prob. 4QPCh. 18 - Prob. 5QP
Ch. 18 - Prob. 6QPCh. 18 - Prob. 7QPCh. 18 - WACC National Electric Company (NEC) is...Ch. 18 - WACC Bolero, Inc., has compiled the following...Ch. 18 - Prob. 10QPCh. 18 - Prob. 11QPCh. 18 - APV MVP, Inc., has produced rodeo supplies for...Ch. 18 - Prob. 13QPCh. 18 - Prob. 14QPCh. 18 - Prob. 15QPCh. 18 - Prob. 16QPCh. 18 - Prob. 17QPCh. 18 - Prob. 18QPCh. 18 - Prob. 1MC
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