Reference no: EM13971727

Epiphany Industries is considering a new capital budgeting project that will last for three years. Epiphany plans on using a cost of capital of 12% to evaluate this project. Based on extensive research, it has prepared the following incremental cash flow projects:

Year	0	1	2	3
Sales (Revenues)		100,000	100,000	100,000
- Cost of Goods Sold (50% of Sales)		50,000	50,000	50,000
- Depreciation		30,000	30,000	30,000
= EBIT		20,000	20,000	20,000
- Taxes (35%)		7000	7000	7000
= unlevered net income		13,000	13,000	13,000
+ Depreciation		30,000	30,000	30,000
- capital expenditures	-90,000

The free cash flow for the first year of Epiphany's project is closest to:

a. $43,000

b. $25,000

c. $13,000

d. $45,000

Problems:

Use the following information to answer the question(s) below.

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Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	62.6	4.58	18.27
Merck	MRK	36.25	3.81	10.86
Pfizer	PFE	$18.30	$1.20	8.19

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Problems:

1. What is an efficient portfolio?

2. Explain why the risk premium of a stock does not depend on its diversifiable risk.