Florida Atlantic University Star River Electronics Ltd. – Case Analysis Case Summary Star River Electronics is a joint venture company that has gained respect within the industry for producing high quality CD-ROMs to major software companies. In the mid 1990s‚ multimedia products created a high demand for CD-ROMs‚ allowing manufacturing companies of all sizes to enter the market. As a result‚ an oversupply ensued causing prices to decline as much as 40%. Star River survived a period of consolidation
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Jon Bennett Star River Case Analysis Page 1 of 7 FIN 461: Spring 2008/9 Initial Assessment: An initial look at the ratio analysis reveals that the annual sales-growth rate has been holding around 15%. This is perhaps the only good news from the analysis. A performance discontinuity makes its appearance in FY 2000 as a drop in operating margin. This was a result of a 21% increase in production costs and expenses and a 20% increase in admin and selling expenses. There was also an inexplicable 95%
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Problem Definition: In order to ensure the continuation and financial stability of Star River Electronics Ltd. (“Star River”)‚ chief executive officer Adeline Koh (“Koh”) must convince the Company’s banker‚ Mr. Tan‚ to grant an extension on the Company’s loan as the Company stands to improve its performance through DVD production (and possibly‚ the purchase of new packaging equipment). Relevant Facts: Star River is recognized in the CD-ROM manufacturing industry for producing high-quality discs
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1. Why do think Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate? Is it justifiable to use the firm’s weighted average cost of capital as the divisional cost of capital? Please explain. (10% weighting) Answer The hurdle rate is the rate of return a firm has to offer finance providers to induce them to buy and hold financial security. (Arnold‚2007). This is also known as cost of capital or weighted average cost of capital. The returns offered by alternative securities with the same risk
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weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to be 8.3%. I find error in this calculation as a result of the following points of disagreement: a) Weighting of Capital Structure: Use of book values of capital rather than the market values b) Cost of Debt Calculation: Incorrect method for calculating debt c) Tax Rate: Use of a tax rate derived from the summation of state and statutory taxes instead of the firm’s marginal tax rate 2. Revised Calculation of WACC: WACC reflects the weighted average
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TANMAY GUPTA tg2311 American Chemical Corporation Cost of Capital : Collinsville Investment [pic] Where: Re = cost of equity Rd = cost of debt E = market value of the firm’s equity D = market value of the firm’s debt V = E + D Tc = corporate tax rate D/V and E/V Ratio: Since the target debt ratio of Dixon is given to be about 35%‚ we assume the target D/V ratio for Colinsville investment to be the same. Hence the E/V ratio
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WACC Example: A firm is considering a new project which would be similar in terms of risk to its existing projects. The firm needs a discount rate for evaluation purposes. The firm has enough cash on hand to provide the necessary equity financing for the project. Also‚ the firm: - has 1‚000‚000 common shares outstanding - current price $11.25 per share - next year’s dividend expected to be $1 per share - firm estimates dividends will
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The Cost of Capital Project: Internet Version {December 2009} By Wm R McDaniel‚ PhD Objective The assignment is to estimate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for an actual corporation as of the current time. Actual managers would need to know their company’s WACC as a starting datum to estimate the discount rate to use in the net present value analysis of new projects or of termination decisions. The student will later need to know the technique for application in some case
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Approach is to analyze financial maneuvers separately and then add their value to that of the business. | APV always works when WACC does‚ and sometimes when WACC doesn’t‚ because it requires fewer restrictive assumptions | Some limitations amount to technicalities‚ which are much more interesting to academics than to managers. | | Less Prone to serious errors than WACC. | Income from stocks- as opposed to bonds- may be taxed differently when the investor files a personal tax return : this usually
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What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation? Why or why not? 1.1 The definition of WACC Weighted average cost of capital(WACC)‚ is a weighted-computational method of analyzing the cost of capital based on the whole capital structure of a firm. The result of WACC is the rate a firm use to monitor the application of the current assets because it represents the return the firm MUST get. For example this rate could
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