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Stock in Dragula Industries has a beta of 1.4. The market risk premium is 7 percent, and T-bills are currently yielding 4.40 percent. If the stock sells for $32 per share, what is your best estimate
Berta Industries stock has a beta of 1.30. The company just paid a dividend of $0.30, and the dividends are expected to grow at 4 percent. Calculate the cost of equity using the DCF method.
What are two methods of avoiding the estate tax? • How would you advise your client if their net worth exceeded twenty million dollars, they were aged 60, married, and in good health.
She is worried that the stock price will rise significantly over the next 6 months. The stock is at$45 and she buys a 6 month call with a strike of $50. At the expiration the stock is at $54. What i
As part of your analysis, you want to determine the firm's cash conversion cycle. Using the following information and a 360-day year, what is your estimate of the firm's current cash conversion cycl
Discuss the various forms of market efficiency. Include in your discussion the information sets involved in each form and the relationships across information sets and across forms of market effici
Estimate LampSmart's After-tax cost of debt. Estimate LampSmart's cost of preferred stock. Estimate LampSmart's cost of common stock. Estimate LampSmart's weight of debt based on its market value. Est
How does one decide what entities to include in the government's BFS? What bases of accounting are used in the BFS?
The company has stated that it plans on issuing a dividend of $.50 a share at the end of this year and then issuing a final liquidating dividend of $2.05 a share at the end of next year. Your requi
The company adheres to a 60% dividend payout ratio and has a P/E ratio of 19. There are 21,000 shares of stock outstanding. What is the amount of the annual net income for the firm?
Calculate the firm's cash conversion cycle, its daily cash operating expenditure, and the amount of resources needed to support its cash conversion cycle.
As CFO of the acquiring company, what approaches would you use in merging the target companies finance department into your area of responsibility attempting to minimize the cultural differences? Wh
How do companies minimize their foreign currency exposure? What is real option analysis? Why is important in M&A activities or is it? What forces drive international M & A activity, and how a
You have a 1999 Nissan that is expected to run for another three year-Calculate the EAC for both Nissan and Hyundai. When should you buy the new Hyundai?
ver the course of the year, you received $2 in dividends and inflation averaged 2.7 percent. Today, you sold your shares for $54.2 a share. What is your approximate real rate of return on this inves
The lease terms, which include maintenance, call for a $12,000 lease payment (4 payments total) at the beginning of each year. DTC's tax rate is 40%. What is the net advantage to leasing?
The first $2 million will start today; at the end of the 5 years, the hospital will also receive a lump sum payment of $16 M. Assuming the cost of money is 4%, what is the value of this endowment in
Describe in general terms how future appreciation of the euro will likely affect the value (from the parent's perspective) of a project established in Germany today by a U.S.-based MNC.
Please explain market efficiency theory? What is strong-form efficiency? Which stock exchange would be an example for this type of market efficiency? What is semistrong-form efficiency? Which stock ex
What type of security is tax deductibility a characteristic? EPS dilution is a characteristic concern with equity (stock) or debt securities? Is the cost of debt financing higher or lower than equity
Define the hedging principle. How can this principle be used in the management of working capital?
A portfolio is made up of 75% of stock 1, and 25% of stock 2. Stock 1 has a variance of .08, and stock 2 has a variance of .035. The covariance between the stocks is -.001. Calculate both the varian
The bank has estimated that reserve requirements, deposit insurance fees, and uncollected balances reduce the amount of money available on checking deposits by 10% and on savings and time deposits b
There were 3,000 bonds issued and similar bonds are now selling to yield 12% annually. Zimmerman does not have preferred stock and the market value of equity is $3,000,000. Calculate the component w
After Year 2, FCF is expected to grow at a constant rate of 4% forever. If the weighted average cost of capital is 14%, what is the firm's value of operations, in millions?