1."Why is expected return considered forward-looking? What are the challenges for practitioners to utilize expected return?" (Cornett‚ Adair‚ and Nofsinger‚ 2012‚ p. 246). Expected return is “forward-looking” in the sense that it represents the return investors expect to receive in the future as compensation for the market risk taken. The challenge is that practitioners cannot precisely know what the future holds and thus what the expected return should be. Thus‚ we create methods to estimate the
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Sampa Video‚ Inc You have to prepare a presentation to the management of the firm. The presentation should have; analysis of the project‚ your valuation of the investment and your investment recommendation. You have to be clear and brief and explain the main assumptions and methodologies used in the analysis. The quality of the presentation will be considered in the grading. You have to hand in a handout of the presentation and an executive summary of no more than 2 pages. Guideline Questions
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Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) ARR provides a quick estimate of a project’s worth over its useful life. ARR is derived by finding profits before taxes and interest. ARR is an accounting method used for purposes of comparison. The major drawbacks of ARR are that it uses profit rather than cash flows‚ and it does not account for the time value of money. ARR is most often used internally when selecting projects. It can also be used to measure the performance of projects and subsidiaries within
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CAPM is a model which enables investors to determine the expected return from a risky security. It observes the relationship between the risk of an asset (Mobil Oil) and its return. The model uses Beta as the main measure of risk. This model works under the following situations: • In a perfectively competitive market where they are many price-takers’ investors‚ who have a small market share each. • Investors behaviour is myopic • Also investments included in the model are publicly
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3 Factors that Influence Rate of Return Any bondholder‚ or any investor for that matter‚ will allow three factors to influence his or her required rate of return. The three factors are the following: real (pure) rate of return‚ inflation‚ and risk premium. These three factors equal the risk free rate which is the rate of return of an investment with no risk of financial loss. This is also the rate that investors would expect from an absolutely risk-free investment over a period of time.
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(UVA-F-1589) 1. Which of the comparable companies appears to be a good match to Crocs at the time of the case? Which would be a good match in five years? Use these multiples to provide additional estimates of the value of Crocs (in other words‚ calculate a value for Crocs using a current multiple‚ and calculate a value for Crocs using Yeung’s cash flow model but with a terminal value based on a multiple). Using EV to EBITDA multiple: - Current Crocs’ multiple is 27.74. Comparable companies that apprear
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Divisional hurdle rates Financial management and policy Case 1‚ week 2 University of Maastricht Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Maastricht‚ 5th of November 2003 Danner‚ W. I 136964 Kuijt‚ R.J. I 130885 Steenvoorden‚ W.J.M. I 178829 Course Code: 6010v Group number: 7 Subgroup number: 1 Tutor: B. Pavlov Introduction Randolph Corporation is a multidivisional company. Due to frictions among the divisions‚ Randolph’s stock has not performed according to expectations
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hours of wiring time are available and up to 140 hours of drilling time maybe used. Each air conditioner sold yields a profit of $25. Each fan assembled may be sold for a $15 profit. Formulate and solve this LP production mix situation to find the best combination of air conditioners and fans that yields the highest profit. Use the corner point graphical approach. Let X1 = the number of air conditioners scheduled to be produced X2 = the number of fans scheduled to be produced Maximize
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26) Company K is considering two mutually exclusive projects. The cash flows of the projects are as follows: Year | Project A | Project B | 0 | -$2‚000‚000 | -$2‚000‚000 | 1 | 500‚000 | | 2 | 500‚000 | | 3 | 500‚000 | | 4 | 500‚000 | | 5 | 500‚000 | | 6 | 500‚000 | | 7 | 500‚000 | 5‚650‚000 | a. Compute the NPV and IRR for the above two projects‚ assuming a 13% required rate of return. b. Discuss the ranking conflict. c. What decision should be made regarding these
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The dividend growth model approach limited application in practice because of its two assumptions. It assumes that the dividend per share will grow at a constant rate‚ g‚ forever The expected dividend growth rate‚ g‚ should be less than the cost of equity‚ Ke‚ to arrive at the simple growth formula. The growth formula is‚ Ke = (DIV1 / Po) + g These assumptions imply that the dividend growth approach cannot be applied to those companies‚ which are not paying any dividends‚ or whose dividend
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