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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You are considering the acquisition of a $1.8m apartment building that you anticipate will produce $167,000 per year in net operating income (NOI) that you will sell after 5 years for $2m. What is the unlevered IRR of the investment? What is levered ..
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Assess the growth of the firm in terms of its amount of total assets. Where have funds for growth come from? How does this relate to the firm's payout policy
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Consider the bond market to be in equilibrium according to our complete theory of the term structure of interest rates. The current interest rate on one-year bonds is 5 percent, and you believe, as does everyone in the market, that in one year the in..
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Frederickson Office Supplies recently reported $12,500 of sales, $7,250 of operating costs other than depreciation, and $1,250 of depreciation. The company had no amortization charges and no non-operating income. It had $8,000 of bonds outstanding th..
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A project has the following estimated data: price = $50 per unit; variable costs = $32 per unit; fixed costs = $14,000; required return = 10 percent; initial investment = $20,000; life = four years. Break-even quantity What is the degree of operating..
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A project has an initial cost of $50,000, expected net cash inflows of $12,000 per year for 8 years, and a cost of capital of 9%. What is the project's IRR?
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Wilber Corporation is considering replacing a machine. The replacement will cut operating expenses by $24,000 per year for each of the 5 years the machine is expected to last. Although the old machine has a zero book value, it has a remaining useful ..
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Your employer, a mid-sized human resources management company, is considering expansion into related fields, including the acquisition of Temp Force Co. an employment agency that supplies word processor operators and computer programmers to business ..
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A company has Sales- $5000, total assets- $3000, debt to eq ratio=.25, ROE=.15, retained earnings $240 for the year. At what rate can this company grow if it would like to maintain its debt-equity ratio and not issue any new equity for the for see ab..
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FarCry Industries, a maker of telecommunications equipment, has 5 million shares of common stock outstanding, 2 million shares of preferred stock outstanding, and 20,000 bonds. What would be the weight used for equity in the computation of FarCry’s W..
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AMP, Inc., has invested $2,165,800 on equipment. The firm uses payback period criteria of not accepting any project that takes more than four years to recover costs. The company anticipates cash flows of $433,386, $512,178, $562,255, $764,997, $816,5..
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