Find the sustainable and internal growth rates for a firm with the following ratios: asset turnover = 2.00; profit margin = 7%; payout ratio = 30%; equity/assets = .60. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded ..
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You have always wanted to own a restaurant and have now decided to go into business, purchase a building, and open an Italian Bistro. You have $150,000 of additional funds to allocate for refurbishing the grounds, building structure, interior design,..
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Old Dominion is considering adding a new type of wind tamer to its trailers, which will save the company in fuel costs each year and the required rate of return is 9%. The expected life of the units are 5 years and the expected cash flows for each un..
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Zellers, Inc. is considering two mutually exclusive projects, A and B. Project A costs $75,000 and is expected to generate $48,000 in year one and $45,000 in year two. Project B costs $80,000 and is expected to generate $34,000 in year one, $37,000 i..
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Suppose you borrow $15,000 and then repay the loan by making 12 monthly payments of $1,297.92 each. What rate will you be quoted on the loan? What is the effective annual rate you are paying? A 15-year corporate bond pays $40 interest every six month..
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A project that provides annual cash flows of $16,300 for eight years costs $69,000 today. What is the NPV for the project if the required return is 7 percent? At a required return of 7 percent, should the firm accept this project?
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Billy’s Exterminators, Inc., has sales of $746,000, costs of $300,000, depreciation expense of $52,000, interest expense of $36,000, a tax rate of 35 percent, and paid out $90,000 in cash dividends. The firm has 100,000 shares of common stock outstan..
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Bill Gates has said that Microsoft is the quintessential firm that operates on "human capital." He once said that if someone developed a better operational system, Microsoft would be out of business in 90 days. If indeed the software industry is driv..
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Soviet Motors Co. just paid a dividend of 2.0 per share. The dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 25% for the next two years, with the growth rate falling off to a constant 7 percent thereafter. If you require a 16% returns on your investment,..
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Preissle Company, wants to sell some 20-year, annual interest, $1,000 par value bonds. Its stock sells for $42 per share, and each bond would have 25 warrants attached to it, each exercisable into one share of stock at an exercise price of $47. The f..
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A portfolio is invested 23 percent in Stock G, 38 percent in Stock J, and 39 percent in Stock K. The expected returns on these stocks are 10 percent, 12.5 percent, and 17.9 percent, respectively. What is the portfolio’s expected return?
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