Question 1. Suppose Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is considering divesting one of its manufacturing plants. The plant is expected to generate free cash flows of $1.5 million per year, growing at a rate of 2.5% per year. Goodyear has an equity cost of capital of 8.5%, a debt cost of capital of 7%, a marginal corporate tax rate of 35%, and a debt-equity ratio of 2.6. If the plant has average risk and Goodyear plans to maintain a constant debt-equity ratio, what after-tax amount must it receive for the plant for the divestiture to be profitable?
Question 2. Suppose Alcatel-Lucent has an equity cost of capital of 10%, market capitalization of $10.8 billion, and an enterprise value of $14.4 billion. Suppose Alcatel-Lucent's debt cost of capital is 6.1% and its marginal tax rate is 35%.
a. What is Alcatel-Lucent's WACC?
b. If Alcatel-Lucent maintains a constant debt-equity ratio, what is the value of a project with average risk and the following expected free cash flows?
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Year
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0
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1
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2
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3
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FCF
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-100
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50
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100
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70
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c. If Alcatel-Lucent maintains its debt-equity ratio, what is the debt capacity of the project in part b?
Question 3: What inherent characteristic of corporations creates the need for a system of checks on manager behavior?
Question 4: What are some examples of agency problems?
Question 5: What are the advantages and disadvantages of the corporate organizational structure?
Question 6: Is it necessarily true that increasing managerial ownership stakes will improve firm performance?
Question 7: How can proxy contests be used to overcome a captured board?
Question 8: What is a say-on-pay vote?
Question 9: What are a board's options when confronted with dissident shareholders?