Your child’s orthodontist offers you two alternative payment plans. The first plan requires a $4,400.00 immediate up-front payment. The second plan requires you to make monthly payments of 144.14, payable at the end of each month for 3 years. What no..
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Shawhan Supply plans to maintain its optimal capital structure of 30 percent debt, 20 percent preferred stock, and 50 percent common stock far into the future. The required return on each component is: Debt (10 percent), preferred stock (11 percent),..
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You are going to value Lauryn’s Doll Co. using the FCF model. After consulting various sources, you find that Lauryn has a reported equity beta of 1.8, a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.3, and a tax rate of 30 percent. Based on this information, what is La..
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eans ‘n More currently sells blue jeans and T-shirts. Management is considering adding fleece tops to their inventory to provide a cooler weather option. The tops would sell for $39 each and they expect to sell 6,000 per year. By adding the fleece to..
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B Corporation has $1000 par value bonds with 7 years left to maturity, a stated annual coupon rate of 4.5 percent (with annual interest payments). What are these bonds worth today if the required market rate of return is 6 percent? _________ What are..
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Suppose that you invested $10,000 dollars using the dollar-cost-averaging approach. Assume that on Feb-1-10, and on Feb-1-11, you purchased $5,000 worth of stock (each year). What was the Semi-Annual Current Yield of this bond. On July 1, 2012, you p..
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Consider a project to supply 102 million postage stamps per year to the U.S. Postal Service for the next five years. You have an idle parcel of land available that cost $1,920,000 five years ago; if the land were sold today, it would net you $2,120,0..
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Rivashes Fashion recently reported $10,750 of sales, $5,500 of operating costs other than depreciation, and $1,250 of depreciation. The company had $3,500 of bonds that carry a 6.25% interest rate, and its federal-plus-state income tax rate was 35%. ..
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What important factors, in addition to quantitative factors, should a firm consider when it is making a capital structure decision? How do these factors play in the decision? Be sure to support your ideas with examples from your own experience or oth..
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Winnebagel Corp. currently sells 21,000 motor homes per year at $59,000 each, and 7,500 luxury motor coaches per year at $96,000 each. The company wants to introduce a new portable camper to fill out its product line; What is the amount to use as the..
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Beta measures diversifiable risk while standard deviation measures systematic risk. The CAPM estimates the required rate of return on a stock held as part of a well-diversified portfolio. Adding stocks with higher standard deviations to a portfolio w..
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Russell’s has annual revenue of $387,000 with costs of $216,400. Depreciation is $48,900 and the tax rate is 30 percent. The firm has debt outstanding with a market value of $182,000 along with 9,500 shares of stock that is selling at $67 a share. Th..
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