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The company pays annual rent of $350,000 per year and pays administrative salaries totaling $120,000 per year. Each play set requires $300 of wood, ten hours of labor at $50 per hour, and variable
What are the betas of stocks X and Y? What are the required rates of return for Stocks X and Y? What is the required rate of return for a portfolio consisting of 80% of Stock X and 20% of Stock Y?
Compare the functions of types of financial institutions to evaluate their role in the financial system.
A commercial bank recognizes that its net income suffers whenever inerest rates increase. Which of the following strategies would protest the bank against rising interest rate?
You have $10,000 to invest in a stock portfolio with an expected return of 10 percent. If your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 12.25 percent, how much money will you
Transportation stocks currently provide an expected rate of return of 15%. TTT, a large transportation company, will pay a year-end dividend of $3 per share. If the stock is selling at $60 per shar
A project will produce cash inflows of $3200 a year for 4 years with a final cash inflow of $5700 in year 5. The projects initial cost is $9500. What is the net present value of this project if the
Assuming a 3% per year real earnings rate for the fixed-income fund and 6% per year for common stocks, what will be George's expected accumulation in each account at age 65? What will be the expecte
Calculate the expected return, variance, and standard deviations for investments in either stock A or stock B, an equally weighted portfolio of both, and a portfolio of 75% A and 25% B. Explain whic
Critically discuss what you believe are the most important factors that are likely to determine the successful performance of work organisations. What do you see as the main obstacles to effective
Assume that Filkins' cost of capital is 14%. Should the firm replace its old knitting machine and if so, which new machine should it use. By how much would the value of the company increase if it ac
Three states of the economy are possible: a slump under which the firm would have operating income of $150,000, a normal state under which the firm will earn $420,000, and a boom under which the fir
The current stock price is $21.00 per share; stockholders' required return, rs, is 14.00%; and the firm's tax rate is 40%. The CFO thinks the WACC should be based on market value weights, but the pr
Simply Red inc has a return on equity of 14%, a dividend payout ratio of 40% an equity multiplier of 2.5 and a profit margin of 1.4%. What is the internal growth rate?
A firm has current assets which could be sold for their book value of $10 million. The book value of its fixed assets is $60 million but they could be sold for $95 million today. The firm has total
Discuss how to calculate the expected return and volatility for a portfolio of stocks,and how an investor can create an efficient portfolio?
ElectricEye Technologies is considering introducing a new line of optic devices. The expected annual sales number of the devices is 10,000 per year; the price is $5,000 per device, and the ariable c
Allegheny Valley Power Company common stock has a beta of 0.80. If the current risk-free rate is 6.5% and the expected return on the stock market as a whole is 16%, determine the cost of retained ea
State Street Corp. will pay a dividend on common stock of $ 4.80 per share at the end of the year. The required return on common stock (Ke) is 13.2%. The firm has a constant growth rate of 7.2%. Co
Stain Corp. has forecasted that over the next four years the average annual after-tax income will be $500,731. The average book value of the manufacturing equipment that is used is $737,095. What is
If it could get the funds from abank at a rate of 10 percent, interest paid monthly, based on a365-days year, what would be the effective cost of the bank loan,and should Lamar use bank debt or addi
Great Pumpkin Farms just paid a dividend of $3.50 on its stock. The growth rate in dividends is expected to be a constant 5 percent per year indefinitely. Investors require a 16 percent return on th
The 9 percent preferred stock of New Beverages is selling for $39 a share. What is the firm's cost of preferred stock if the tax rate is 35 percent and the par value per share is $100?
Austin Grocers recently reported the following 2008 income statement (in millions of dollars): Sales $700 Operate ring cost including depreciation 500 EBIT 200 Interest 40 EBT $160 Taxes
Digby's Elite product Dim has an awareness of 72%. Digby's Dim product manager for the Elite segment is determined to have more awareness for Dim than Andrews' Elite product Alan.