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You've observed the following returns on Mary Ann Data Corporation's stock over the past five years: 34 percent, 16 percent, 19 percent, - 21 percent, and 8 percent.
A firm can affect its cost of capital through its capital structure policy, dividend policy and investment policy. Discuss the three most important factors that are beyond a firm's direct control.
Find the IRR and MIRR of a project if it has estimated cash flows of $5,500 annually for seven years if its year-zero investment is $25,000 and the firm's minimum required rate of return on the proj
Find the NPV and PI of an annuity that pays $500 per year for eight years and costs $2,500. Assume a discount rate of 6 percent.
What are some specific examples of projects or decisions, which could be made using, discounted cash flows analysis within your company or business experience?
Explain how simulation can be used in multinational capital budgeting. What can it do that other risk adjustment techniques cannot?
The average T-bond rate was 7 percent and the realized rate of return on the S&P 500 was 12 percent. What was the portfolio's alpha?
A project requires cash outlay of rs 20000and generate cash inflows of rs 80000,rs 4000,and rs 3000 during the next 4 years. Find the payback period?
This annual dividend growth rate is expected to decline to 8 percent for years 3 and 4 and then to settle down to 4 percent per year forever. Calculate the cost of internal equity for Alpha Tool.
Calculate the after-tax cost of this preferred stock offering assuming that this stock is a perpetuity. If the stock is callable in 5 years at $66 per share and investors expect it to be called at th
Explain the differences between capital markets and money markets. What are their respective purposes? How does each of these markets affect you and other individuals?
Calculate the equity capital ratio. Calculate the Tier 1 Ratio using risk-adjusted assets. Calculate the Total Capital (Tier 1 plus Tier 2) Ratio using risk-adjusted assets.
Consider an ordinary annuity with seven cash flows of $4800 each. The cash flows occur at the end of each year, beginning one year from today. Assuming the interest rate is 9% per year, what is the
Ones investor creates a portfolio on the efficient frontier with an expected return of 10%. Another creates a portfolio on the efficient frontier with an expected return of 20%. What is the standard
Suppose you have two projects, both with positive NPVs. The first project has a lower NPV and breaks even sooner. The second project has a higher NPV but takes longer to break even. You can finance
You own a stock portfolio invested 25 percent in stock Q, 20 percent in Stock R, 15 percent in Stock S, and 40 percent in Stock T. The betas for these four stocks are.75, 1.90, 1.38, and 1.16, respe
You own a portfolio that is 40 percent invested in stock X, 35 percent in stock Y, and 25 percent in stock Z. The expected returns on these three stocks are 11 percent, 17 percent, and 14 percent, r
Top hedge fund manager Diana Sauros believes that a stock with the same market risk as the S&P 500 will sell at year-end at a price of $50. The stock will pay a dividend at year-end of $2. What
At the beginning of the year, the firm had common stock of $35,000, paid-in surplus of $11,200, and retained earnings of $48,420. At the end of the year, the firm had total equity of $142,430. The f
Which one of the following is an example of systematic risk?
What are the advantages and disadvantages to a firm that issues low- or zero-coupon bonds?
A money market security that has a par value of $10,000 sells for $8,816.60. Given that the security has a maturity of two years, what is the investor's required rate of return?
Foreign securities. A U.S. investor obtains Mexican pesos when the peso is worth $0.12 and invests in a one-year security that provides a yield (in pesos) of 22 percent. At the end of one year, the
Why is the marginal cost of capital the relevant concept of evaluating investment projects, rather than a corporation's actual, historic cost of capital?