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What is the difference between a premium bond and a discount bond? What three attributes are most important in determining an issue's price volatility?
What is the difference between a call feature and a sinking-fund provision? Briefly describe the three different types of call features. Can a bond be freely callable but non-refundable?
What is the expected return on a stock with a beta of 0.8, given a risk free rate of 3.5% and an expected market return of 15.5%?
Paul Inc. forecasts a capital budget of $725,000. The CFO wants to maintain a target capital structure of 45% debt and 55% equity, and it also wants to pay dividends of $500,000. If the company foll
New IRS regulations require that taxes be withheld when the dividend is paid. Lee Ann sells for $ 75 per share, and the stock is about to go ex dividend. What do you think the ex- dividend price wil
What are erosion costs? Provide one real-life example of an erosion cost for a project. Should erosion costs be included as project cash flows? Why or why not? Explain your rationale.
Perpetual Ltd. has issued bonds that never require the principal amount to be repaid to investors. Correspondingly, Perpetual must make interest payments into the infinite future. If the bondholders
Jersey common stock paid $2.50 in dividends last year (D0). Dividends are expected to grow at a 10% annual rate forever. If Jersey's current market price is $50, what is the stock's expected rate of
At the end of the sixth year, the account balance was transferred to a bank paying 10%, and annual deposits of $6,000 were made at the end of each year from the seventh through the tenth years. What
6-month U.S. securities have an annualized return of 6.5% and a periodic return of 3.25%. If interest rate parity holds, what is the U.S. dollar-Canadian dollar exchange rate in the 180-day forward
Thirty-five years ago, you invested $1,000 in a retirement fund. Today the fund is worth $130,000. What has been your annually compounded rate of return on this investment?
Assuming a 360-day year, calculate what the average investment in inventory would be for a firm, given the following information in each case.
The current market value of Alpha's stock is $30. If the firm has a marginal tax rate of 40 percent, what is its weighted cost of capital for the coming year?
The firm's policy is to use a risk premium of 2.8 percentage points when using the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium method to find ks. The firm's marginal tax rate is 40 percent.
The bonds carry a 7 percent coupon, pay interest semiannually, and mature in 7.5 years. The bonds are selling at 98 percent of face value. The company's tax rate is 34 percent. What is the firm's we
These bonds have a 7.5 percent coupon, pay interest semiannually, and have a current market price equal to 98.6 percent of face value. The tax rate is 39 percent. What is the amount of the annual inte
Determine the effective price at which you purchased your sugar. How do you account for the difference in amounts for the spot and hedge positions? Describe the nature of the basis risk in the long
If 9% after-tax is the investor's required return, what before-tax rate would the domestic bond need to pay to provide the required after-tax return?
What will be the incremental revenue generated if the rental company decides to accept the price offered by the group?
what are the portfolio weights for doing so? Suppose that the correlation coefficient between asset A and asset B is zero, what is the standard deviation of the resulting portfolio?
How much of the $25,000 ordinary loss allocated to Parker clears the tax basis hurdle for deductibility in 2010? What is Parker's stock and debt basis at the end of 2010? What is Parker's stock and de
Carlos sells in a mix of 2 units of A, 3 units of B and 5 units of C. What is the weighted average contribution margin per unit for Carlos?
Assume that no costs other than the call premium would be incurred to call and refund the bonds, and also assume that the yield curve is horizontal, with rates expected to remain at current levels o
Good Earth Products produces orange juice and candied orange peels. A 1,000-pound batch of oranges, costing $400, is transformed using labor of $40 into 100 pounds of orange peels and 300 pints of j
Explain what these measures mean and how they help the reader understand the differences between the two companies.