Already have an account? Get multiple benefits of using own account!
Login in your account..!
Remember me
Don't have an account? Create your account in less than a minutes,
Forgot password? how can I recover my password now!
Enter right registered email to receive password!
Alcoa Aluminium is experiencing a decrease in demand for their aluminium products. They are looking at ways to increase sales and hopefully profits. Alcoa currently sells 65,000 pounds of aluminium a year at an average price of $9 per pound. Fixed costs of producing aluminium are $225,000. Variable costs per pound are $4.75. After consulting with several of the firm’s business analysts the CEO feels they can reduce variable cost by $.50 per pound if they can increase production by 10%. The analysts also feel the arc elasticity of demand for aluminium to be ?1.5. A. How much would Alcoa have to reduce the price of aluminium to increase quantity sold by 10%? B. Calculate the firm’s total revenue, total cost and total price before and after the price cut. Did the price cut achieve a result that was beneficial to the business?
Suppose that today's stock price is $33.9. If the required rate on equity is 19.8% and the growth rate is 3.2%, compute the expected dividend (i.e. compute D1)
Great Wall Pizzeria issued 12-year bonds one year ago at a coupon rate of 6.9 percent. If the YTM on these bonds is 9.1 percent, what is the current bond price?
El Paso Company is planning to get a machine that will cost $14,000 and is expected to last for 7 years. The company uses straight-line depreciation. The tax rate of El Paso is 31% and the proper discount rate in this case is 12%. Find the minimum pr..
What are the consequences of a bank mistakenly pricing loans based on the historical cost of funds? Do they differ in a rising rate environment versus a falling rate environment?
If a firm's beta increased, everything else being the same, its required rate of return would
For this question, assume that each stock has the same variance of return (sigma^2), the correlation between all pairs of stocks is the same (rho) and stocks are equally weighted. Calculate the variance of return of an equally weighted portfolio of 2..
Some advocates of behavioural finance agree with efficient market advocates that indexing is the optimal investment strategy for most investors. But their reasons for this conclusion differ greatly. Compare and contrast the rationale for indexing acc..
Economics has a notoriously bad reputation among students. They assume it will be dry, boring, and not relevant to their lives. They also think it's hard because the course content must be understood rather than memorized. Why do you think economics ..
A company just paid out an annual dividend of $5. The dividend amount will grow at 3%annually forever, e.g., next year's dividend amount will be $5.15 and so on. If you buy a share today and sell it at year 5, how much of a capital gain (not includin..
The last dividend of delta, inc. was $8.15, the growth rate of dividends is expected to be 2.48 percent, and the required rate of return on this stock is 11.05 percent. What is the stock price according to the constant growth dividend model (Godron m..
What is the equivalent present value of the following series of payments: $10,000 the first year, $11,000 the second year and $12,000 the third year? Consider 4% interest, compounded annually.
Identify and define the concepts associated with making capital investment decisions such as cash flows, sunk costs, opportunity costs, or others. Why are the concepts important for the investor to factor into the decision-making process?
Get guaranteed satisfaction & time on delivery in every assignment order you paid with us! We ensure premium quality solution document along with free turntin report!
whatsapp: +1-415-670-9521
Phone: +1-415-670-9521
Email: [email protected]
All rights reserved! Copyrights ©2019-2020 ExpertsMind IT Educational Pvt Ltd