Miller's Dry Goods is an all equity firm with 48,000 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $50 a share. The company's earnings before interest and taxes are $128,000. Miller's has decided to add leverage to its financial operations by issu..
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Genetic Insights Co. purchases an asset for $18,810. This asset qualifies as a seven-year recovery asset under MACRS. The seven-year fixed depreciation percentages for years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are 14.29%, 24.49%, 17.49%, 12.49%, 8.93%, and 8.93%, r..
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What do the terms core deposits and volatile, or noncore, deposits mean? Explain how a bank might estimate the magnitude of each.
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XYZ, Inc. is considering a capital budgeting project under three scenarios. If conditions are excellent, the NPV of the project is projected to be $3,000; under fair conditions, the NPV is projected at $950; and under unfavorable conditions, the NPV ..
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Suppose a stock had an initial price of $96 per share, paid a dividend of $2.70 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $77.50. Compute the percentage total return. What was the dividend yield? What was the capital gains yield?
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A firm is financing its growth with retained earnings. It is retaining 80 percent of its annual earnings. The firm's historic return on equity is 16 percent, a figure that is expected to continue into the future. How much will earnings grow over the ..
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You find a zero coupon bond with a par value of $10,0000 and 17 years to maturity. If the yield to maturity on this bond is 4.9%, what is the price of the bond? Assume semiannual compounding periods.
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A bond currently sells for $1,050, which gives it a yield to maturity of 6%. Suppose that if the yield increases by 25 basis points, the price of the bond falls to $1,025. What is the duration of this bond?
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On March 31, 2013, Mike's Bike Shop had an outstanding accounts receivable of $19,000. Mike's sales are roughly evenly split between credit and cash sales, with the credit sales collected half in the month after the sale and the remainder 2 months af..
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5 years ago, Delicious Mills, Inc. issued 30-year to maturity bonds that had a 8.61 percent annual coupon rate, paid semiannually. The bonds had a $1,000 face value. Since then, interest rates in general have changed and the yield to maturity on the ..
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Suppose Pat, Ltd. just issued a dividend of $2.50 per share on its common stock. The company’s dividends have been growing at a rate of 5%. If the stock currently sells for $65, what is your best estimate of the company’s cost of equity?
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Masterson Company has 420,000 shares of $10 par value common stock outstanding. During the year Masterson declared a 15% stock dividend when the market price of the stock was $36 per share. Three months later Masterson declared a $.60 per share cash ..
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