Fournier Industries, a publicly traded waste disposal Company, is highly leveraged firm with 70% debt, 0% preferred stock, and 30% common equity financing. Currently the risk-free rate is about 4.5%, and the return on the S&P 500 (the market proxy) i..
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A department manager is proposing a new project to you to take to your business’s leadership team. He is proposing a $210,000 new piece of equipment that will generate $85,000 in revenue for 4 years. What is the NPV of this project? What would you re..
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What will the cost of the vehicle be at the end of three years and you want to save a equal amount at the end of each month for the next three years in order to pay cash for the new vehicle.
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John Friedman is in the 40 percent personal tax bracket. He is considering investing in HCA bonds that carry a 12 percent interest rate. What is his after-tax yield (interest rate) on the bonds?
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After discovering a new gold vein in the Colorado Mountains, CTT Mining Corporation must decide whether to go ahead and develop the deposit. The most cost-effective method of mining gold is sulphuric acid extraction, a process that results in environ..
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An investment project has annual cash inflows of $9,000, $8,500, $8,000, and $7,300, and a discount rate of 10 percent. If the initial cost is $23,700, the discounted payback period for these cash flows is _______ years.
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Kolby’s Korndogs is looking at a new sausage system with an installed cost of $910,000. This cost will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project’s seven-year life, at the end of which the sausage system can be scrapped for $105,000. The s..
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You fall on hard times and take out a payday loan. The deal is as follows; you borrow $500 and must pay it back in 10 days. The interest charged on the loan is $10 and the lender requires a $3 loan origination fee. What is your annualized cost of c..
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Suppose Levered Bank is funded with 2% equity and 98% debt. Its current market capitalization is $10 billion, and its market to book ratio is 1. Levered Bank earns a 4.22% expected return on its assets (the loans it makes), and pays 4% on its debt. C..
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Maggie's Muffins, Inc., generated $2,000,000 in sales during 2013, and its year-end total assets were $1,400,000. Also, at year-end 2013, current liabilities were $1,000,000, consisting of $300,000 of notes payable, $500,000 of accounts payable, and ..
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A Treasury bond that matures in 10 years has a yield of 5%. A 10-year corporate bond has a yield of 8%. Assume that the liquidity premium on the corporate bond is 0.4%. What is the default risk premium on the corporate bond?
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Asset A has an expected return of 10% and standard deviation of 20%. Asset B has an expected return of 16% and a standard deviation of 40%. The correlation between A and B is 0.35. Portfolio C is composed of 30% asset A and 70% asset B. Plot the atta..
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