Financial Management Case Study-Payout: Gainesboro I. The goals of Gainesboro i. Corporate Goals Management expected the firm to grow at an average annual compound rate of 15% and reach $2.0 billion in sales and $160 million in net income through 2011. ii. Recent strategy of Gainesboro The company devoted a greater share of its research-and-development budget to CAD/CAM as to reestablish its leadership in the field. The company also underwent two massive restructurings‚ including selling
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Zachary Duffy Hampton Machine Tool Company From the point of view as the bank creditor‚ Jerry Eckwood‚ a determination must be made of whether Hampton Machine Tool Company should receive an extension of their original loan of $1 million‚ as well as an additional loan of $350‚000. After research and careful consideration and extraneous research and forecasting‚ we‚ St. Louis National Bank‚ as well as myself‚ Jerry Eckwood‚ have determined to reject Hampton Machine Tool Company’s loan request‚ as
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Hampton Machine Tool Company -Case Write-up Summary: On September 12‚ 1979‚ Hampton Machine Tool Company requested from St. Louis National Bank a renewal to their loan of $1‚000‚000 due to be repaid on September 30‚ 1979 and also to be given an additional loan of $350‚000 for new equipment purchases in October 1979. Both loans were to be repaid on December 31‚ 1979. Hampton M.T. Company wrote a letter to the St. Louis National Bank stating the reasons for the extension of the loan and the need
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Hampton Machine Tool Company was established in 1915‚ whose customers were aircraft and automobile manufacturers located in the St. Louis area. The company had a large success rate throughout the 1960’s‚ with an unfortunate decline throughout the mid 1970’s in sales. The company was able to recover in the years following due to a large increase in military aircraft sales‚ especially the company’s conservative financial policies. Mr. Benjamin G. Cowins‚ president of Hampton Machine Tool Company requested
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Hampton Machine Tool Company‚ a machine tool manufacturer‚ was founded in 1915. Hampton ’s customer base is made up primarily of military aircraft manufactures and automobile manufactures in the St. Louis area. Hampton felt the boom in the 1960s with record setting profits in the mid to late 1960s. Hampton slowed down in the 1970s with the withdrawal from Vietnam War and the oil embargo. Hampton stabilized by the late 1970s and now has a larger market share as other competitors were unable to
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1)Introduction A machine tool is a powered mechanical device‚ typically used to fabricate metal components of machines by machining‚ which is the selective removal of metal. Machine tools can be operated manually‚ or under automatic control. Early machines used flywheels to stabilize their motion and had complex systems of gears and levers to control the machine and the piece being worked on. Soon after World War II‚ the numerical control (NC) machine was developed. NC machines used a series
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Hampton Machine Tool Company 1. Hampton Machine Tool Company was founded in 1915 and was based out of the St. Louis area. It was a manufacturing firm serving the automobile and aircraft industries. Due to the strong automobile market and defense spending for the Vietnam war‚ the company was seeing record production and profits through the 60’s and early 70’s. After that‚ the Arab oil embargo‚ the increase in the price of Gasoline and the then recession was taking its toll on the Company’s financials
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GAINESBORO MACHINE TOOLS CORPORATION Overview In mid September 2005‚ Ashley Swenson‚ the chief financial officer of this large CAD/CAM equipment manufacturer must decide whether to pay out dividends to the firm¡¦s shareholders or repurchase stock. If Swenson chooses to pay out dividends‚ she must also decide on the magnitude of the payout. A subsidiary question is whether the firm should embark on a campaign of corporate-image advertising and change its corporate name to reflect its new outlook
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RE: HAMPTON MACHINE TOOL COMPANY TO: Jerry Eckwood‚ Vice President of St. Louis National Bank SECTION I St. Louis National Bank has to decide whether or not to grant a loan renewal request by a local company‚ Hampton Tool Company. The existing loan is due to be repaid in fifteen days and the president of the company‚ Benjamin Cowins‚ is also requesting an additional loan of $350‚000 for planned equipment purchases in October 1979. Until December 1978‚ Hampton Tools had maintained a capital
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HAMPTON MACHINE TOOL COMPANY About The Company Hampton Machine Tool was established in 1915 and has been manufacturing machine tools since its foundation. Hampton company’s customer base is made up primarily of aircraft manufacturers and automobile manufactures in the St. Louis area. It experienced record production and profitability during the years. Sales and profitability declined in the mid-1970s with the withdrawal from Vietnam War and the oil embargo. However‚ the company had stabilized the
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