held a monopoly of the Very Large Aircraft (VLA) market for the last 30 years. In order to make the decision of whether to take on this project‚ Airbus needed to find out the net present value of this investment. In this case‚ our team used both weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and flow to equity (FTE) to analysis the whole undertaking. Assumptions Before getting into more details about the expected financial return from the investment‚ we need to clarify several key issues. First‚ the investment
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ANALYSIS OF USEC Inc.‚ Prepared For: Dr. Doina Chichernea BUAD 6200 SPRING 2011 The University of Toledo APRIL 21‚ 2011 Executive Summary USEC is the world’s leading supplier of enriched Uranium to nuclear power plants. Due to the expiration of long term energy cost savings contracts‚ USEC is examining the possibility of taking on a new project called the American Centrifuge Project. This project will utilize a different process for Uranium enrichment‚ which is the core business process
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bonds yielding 8%. The remaining long term debt will be at 7%. The marginal tax rate will remain the same. What will be Bickley’s new Beta with this new 15/85 capital structure? What is the WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) of Bickely with its 30/70 capital structure? Bickley’s average borrowing rate with this capital structure is 7.5%. What will be Bickley’s WACC with its 15/85 capital structure? CHAPTER 15 1. Unlevered Beta of Bickely Bu = 1.3 / [1 + (1 - .40)(
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stable‚ and it expects no growth‚ so all earnings are paid out as dividends. The debt consists of perpetual bonds. a. What is the total Market Value of the firm’s Stock? b. What is the total Firm’s Market Value V? c. What is the firm’s weighted Average Cost of Capital? d. Suppose the firm can increase its debt so that capital structure has 50 % debt‚ based on market values (it will issue debt and buy back stock). At this level of debt‚ its cost of equity rises to 18.5%. Its interest rate
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market portfolio is often represented by: A. a portfolio of U.S. Treasury securities. B. a diversified stock market index. C. an investor ’s mutual fund portfolio. D. the historic record of stock market returns. 3. A stock ’s beta measures the: A. average return on the stock. B. variability in the stock ’s returns compared to that of the market portfolio. C. difference between the return on the stock and return on the market portfolio. D. market risk premium on the stock. 4. If the slope of the line
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reflect the average cost of the various sources of long-term funds a firm uses to acquire assets. True 3. The component costs of capital are market-determined variables in the sense that they are based on investors’ required returns. False 4. The before-tax cost of debt‚ which is lower than the after-tax cost‚ is used as the component cost of debt for purposes of developing the firm’s WACC. False 5. The cost of debt is equal to one minus the marginal tax rate multiplied by the average coupon
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Nike Inc. Case 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? WACC is weighted average cost of capital‚ which is the expected rate of return on average from all the company’s existing debts and securities. It takes into account all different types of financing in the company’s capital structure. The reason it is important to estimate WACC is because it measures what it costs the firm to take on a project based on its current Debt and Equity mix. When the
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of its business units. As exhibited in the graph (Figure 1‚ page 224) prepared by Vice President of the Telecom Segment‚ Rick Phillips‚ the firm currently utilizes a constant hurdle rate attained through an estimate of Teletech’s corporate Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). The WACC for Teletech Corp (as a whole) is calculated at 9.30%‚ which is then applied to all investment and performance-measurement analyses of the firm. When looking strictly at this‚ the Telecommunications Services
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Creating Public Shares According to Brau and Fawcet (2004)‚ the most common reason CFOs choose to provide an IPO on their firm is to create public shares for use in future acquisitions. While Rosetta Stone may not have immediate acquisition plans‚ the public offering of their shares will provide new capital for them to continue to expand. Only 5% of their revenue comes from outside of the United States‚ and with increased capital from an IPO‚ Rosetta Stone can look to pursue new markets (Schill
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Business Finance Policy: FINA 380-01 Dr. William Brent February 3rd 2009 JetBlue Airways: IPO Valuation Table of Content I. Statement of Problem II. Alternative Solutions III. Analysis of the Alternatives IV. Final Recommendation V. Appendix I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM David Neeleman‚ CEO of JetBlue Airways and his management team have realized that JetBlue is still making profit despite the many challenges facing the airline industry after the September
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