1. Penn Corp. is analyzing the possible acquisition of Teller Company. Both firms have no debt. Penn believes the acquisition will increase its total after tax annual cash flow by $4 million indefinitely. The current market value of Teller is $43 million, and that of Penn is $88 million. The appropriate discount rate for the incremental cash flows is 10 percent. Penn is trying to decide whether it should offer 40 percent of its stock or $69 million in cash to Teller’s shareholders. a. What is the cost of each alternative?

1. Penn Corp. is analyzing the possible acquisition of Teller Company. Both firms have no debt. Penn believes the acquisition will increase its total after tax annual cash flow by $4 million indefinitely. The current market value of Teller is $43 million, and that of Penn is $88 million. The appropriate discount rate for the incremental cash flows is 10 percent. Penn is trying to decide whether it should offer 40 percent of its stock or $69 million in cash to Teller’s shareholders.

a.

What is the cost of each alternative? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in dollars, not millions of dollars, i.e. 1,234,567.)

Cash cost

$

Equity cost

$

b.

What is the NPV of each alternative? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in dollars, not millions of dollars, i.e. 1,234,567.)

NPV cash

$

NPV stock

$

c.

Which alternative should Penn choose?

Stock

Cash

2. Plant, Inc., is considering making an offer to purchase Palmer Corp. Plant’s vice president of finance has collected the following information:

Plant

Palmer

Price-earnings ratio

15.7

11.3

Shares outstanding

1,620,000

870,000

Earnings

$

4,390,200

$

1,044,000

Dividends

$

1,062,000

$

482,000

Plant also knows that securities analysts expect the earnings and dividends of Palmer to grow at a constant rate of 4 percent each year. Plant management believes that the acquisition of Palmer will provide the firm with some economies of scale that will increase this growth rate to 6 percent per year.

a.

What is the value of Palmer to Plant? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Value of Palmer

$

b.

What would Plant’s gain be from this acquisition? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Gain

$

c.

If Plant were to offer $24 in cash for each share of Palmer, what would the NPV of the acquisition be?(Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

NPV

$

d.

What is the most Plant should be willing to pay in cash per share for the stock of Palmer? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Maximum bid price

$

e.

If Plant were to offer 237,000 of its shares in exchange for the outstanding stock of Palmer, what would the NPV be. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

NPV

$

Plant’s outside financial consultants think that the 6 percent growth rate is too optimistic and a 5 percent rate is more realistic.

f-1.

If Plant still offers $24 per share, what is the NPV with this new growth rate? (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

NPV

$

f-2.

If Plant still offers 237,000 shares, what is the NPV with this new growth rate? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

NPV

$

f-3.

Should the acquisition be attempted?

Yes

No

3. Consider the following premerger information about a bidding firm (Firm B) and a target firm (Firm T). Assume that both firms have no debt outstanding.

Firm B

Firm T

Shares outstanding

6,000

1,200

Price per share

$

47

$

17

Firm B has estimated that the value of the synergistic benefits from acquiring Firm T is $9,500.

a.

If Firm T is willing to be acquired for $19 per share in cash, what is the NPV of the merger? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

NPV

$

b.

What will the price per share of the merged firm be assuming the conditions in (a)? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Share price

$

c.

If Firm T is willing to be acquired for $19 per share in cash, what is the merger premium? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Merger premium

$

d.

Suppose Firm T is agreeable to a merger by an exchange of stock. If B offers one of its share for every two of T ‘s shares, what will the price per share of the merged firm be? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Price per share

$

e.

What is the NPV of the merger assuming the conditions in (d)? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

NPV

$

4. Fair-to-Midland Manufacturing, Inc., (FMM) has applied for a loan at True Credit Bank. Jon Fulkerson, the credit analyst at the bank, has gathered the following information from the company’s financial statements:

Total assets

$77,000

EBIT

7,000

Net working capital

3,500

Book value of equity

20,000

Accumulated retained earnings

16,900

Sales

93,000

The stock price of FMM is $22 per share and there are 5,100 shares outstanding. What is the Z-score for this company? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 3 decimal places. (e.g., 32.161))

Z-score

5. Consider the following premerger information about Firm A and Firm B:

Firm A

Firm B

Total earnings

$

2,100

$

800

Shares outstanding

900

200

Price per share

$

27

$

31

Assume that Firm A acquires Firm B via an exchange of stock at a price of $33 for each share of B’s stock. Both A and B have no debt outstanding.

a.

What will the earnings per share, EPS, of Firm A be after the merger? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

EPS

$

b.

What will Firm A’s price per share be after the merger if the market incorrectly analyzes this reported earnings growth (that is, the price–earnings ratio does not change)? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Price per share

$

c.

What will the price–earnings ratio of the post-merger firm be if the market correctly analyzes the transaction? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Price-earnings

times

d-1.

If there are no synergy gains, what will the share price of A be after the merger? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Price per share

$

d-2.

What will the price–earnings ratio be? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Price-earnings

times

d-3.

What does your answer for the share price tell you about the amount A bid for B? Was it too high? too low?

Too high

Too Low

Assume that the following balance sheets are stated at book value. The fair market value of James’ fixed assets is equal to the book value. Jurion pays $19,000 for James and raises the needed funds through an issue of long-term debt.

Jurion Co.

Current assets

$

20,100

Current liabilities

$

6,850

Net fixed assets

36,850

Long-term debt

11,260

Equity

38,840

Total

$

56,950

Total

$

56,950

James, Inc.

Current assets

$

4,060

Current liabilities

$

2,800

Net fixed assets

9,880

Long-term debt

1,820

Equity

9,320

Total

$

13,940

Total

$

13,940

Construct a postmerger balance sheet assuming that Jurion Co. purchases James, Inc., and the purchase method of accounting is used. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Jurion Co., post-merger

Current assets

$

Current liabilities

$

Fixed assets

Long-term debt

Goodwill

Equity

Total

$

Total

$

Describe two (2) financial career options that an individual with a finance education might pursue and explain the value that such a position adds to a company.

Describe two (2) financial career options that an individual with a finance education might pursue and explain the value that such a position adds to a company.
Explain the essential skills that would make a person successful in each of the described positions.
Recommend one (1) of the career options. Identify the most attractive features of the position.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

Should the law allow someone that becomes voluntarily incapacitated through intoxication or other means escape from a contractual obligation using incapacity as a defense?

Should the law allow someone that becomes voluntarily incapacitated through intoxication or other means escape from a contractual obligation using incapacity as a defense? Does it matter if the other party to the contract knew or clearly should have known that the other party is or has become incapacitated?

Assume that a bond will make payments every six months as shown on the following timeline (using six-month periods):

Assume that a bond will make payments every six months as shown on the following timeline (using six-month periods):

· a. What is the maturity of the bond (in years)?

· b. What is the coupon rate (in percent)?

· c. What is the face value?

6.

Suppose a 10-year, $1000 bond with an 8% coupon rate and semiannual coupons is trading for a price of $1034.74.

· a. What is the bond’s yield to maturity (expressed as an APR with semiannual compounding)?

· b. If the bond’s yield to maturity changes to 9% APR, what will the bond’s price be?

7.

Suppose a five-year, $1000 bond with annual coupons has a price of $900 and a yield to maturity of 6%. What is the bond’s coupon rate?

10.

Suppose a seven-year, $1000 bond with an 8% coupon rate and semiannual coupons is trading with a yield to maturity of 6.75%.

· a. Is this bond currently trading at a discount, at par, or at a premium? Explain.

· b. If the yield to maturity of the bond rises to 7% (APR with semiannual compounding), what price will the bond trade for?

· 28.

· The following table summarizes the yields to maturity on several one-year, zero-coupon securities:

Security

Yield (%)

Treasury

3.1

AAA corporate

3.2

BBB corporate

4.2

B corporate

4.9

· a. What is the price (expressed as a percentage of the face value) of a one-year, zero-coupon corporate bond with a AAA rating?

· b. What is the credit spread on AAA-rated corporate bonds?

· c. What is the credit spread on B-rated corporate bonds?

· d. How does the credit spread change with the bond rating? Why?

30.

HMK Enterprises would like to raise $10 million to invest in capital expenditures. The company plans to issue five-year bonds with a face value of $1000 and a coupon rate of 6.5% (annual payments). The following table summarizes the yield to maturity for five-year (annual-pay) coupon corporate bonds of various ratings:

1.

The figure below shows the one-year return distribution for RCS stock. Calculate

· a. The expected return.

· b. The standard deviation of the return.

344345

30.

What does the beta of a stock measure?

35.

Suppose the market risk premium is 5% and the risk-free interest rate is 4%. Using the data in Table 10.6, calculate the expected return of investing in

· a. Starbucks’ stock.

· b. Hershey’s stock.

· c. Autodesk’s stock.

37.

Suppose the market risk premium is 6.5% and the risk-free interest rate is 5%. Calculate the cost of capital of investing in a project with a beta of 1.2.

11-2.

You own three stocks: 600 shares of Apple Computer, 10,000 shares of Cisco Systems, and 5000 shares of Colgate-Palmolive. The current share prices and expected returns of Apple, Cisco, and Colgate-Palmolive are, respectively, $500, $20, $100 and 12%, 10%, 8%.

· a. What are the portfolio weights of the three stocks in your portfolio?

· b. What is the expected return of your portfolio?

· c. Suppose the price of Apple stock goes up by $25, Cisco rises by $5, and Colgate-Palmolive falls by $13. What are the new portfolio weights?

· d. Assuming the stocks’ expected returns remain the same, what is the expected return of the portfolio at the new prices?

29.

Suppose the term structure of risk-free interest rates is as shown below:

Term

1 year

2 years

3 years

5 years

7 years

10 years

20 years

Rate (EAR, %)

1.99

2.41

2.74

3.32

3.76

4.13

4.93

· a. Calculate the present value of an investment that pays $1000 in two years and $2000 in five years for certain.

· b. Calculate the present value of receiving $500 per year, with certainty, at the end of the next five years. To find the rates for the missing years in the table, linearly interpolate between the years for which you do know the rates. (For example, the rate in year 4 would be the average of the rate in year 3 and year 5.)

· *c. Calculate the present value of receiving $2300 per year, with certainty, for the next 20 years. Infer rates for the missing years using linear interpolation. (Hint: Use a spreadsheet.)

31.

What is the shape of the yield curve given the term structure in Problem 29? What expectations are investors likely to have about future interest rates?

Cliff Arthur has equally attractive job offers in Miami and Los Angeles. The rent ratios in the cities are 8 and 20, respectively. Cliff would really like to buy rather than rent a home after he moves. Explain how to interpret the rent ratio and what it tells Cliff about the rela- tive attractiveness of moving to Miami rather than Los Angeles, given his stated goal. 
 cc. Using the maximum ratios for a conventional mortgage, how big a monthly payment could the Taylor family afford if their gross (before-tax) monthly income amounted to $3,500? Would it make any difference if they were already making monthly installment loan pay- ments totaling $750 on two car loans?

Cliff Arthur has equally attractive job offers in Miami and Los Angeles. The rent ratios in the cities are 8 and 20, respectively. Cliff would really like to buy rather than rent a home after he moves. Explain how to interpret the rent ratio and what it tells Cliff about the rela- tive attractiveness of moving to Miami rather than Los Angeles, given his stated goal. 


cc. Using the maximum ratios for a conventional mortgage, how big a monthly payment could the Taylor family afford if their gross (before-tax) monthly income amounted to $3,500? Would it make any difference if they were already making monthly installment loan pay- ments totaling $750 on two car loans? 


dd. Find the monthly mortgage payments on the following mortgage loans using either your calculator or the table in Exhibit 5.5:
a. $90,000 at 6.5 percent for 30 years
b. $125,000 at 5.5 percent for 20 years 
c. $97,500 at 5 percent for 15 years 


ee. Use Worksheet 5.2. Aurelia Montenegro is currently renting an apartment for $725 per month and paying $275 annually for renter’s insurance. She just found a small townhouse she can buy for $185,000. She has enough cash for a $10,000 down payment and $4,000
in closing costs. Aurelia estimated the following costs as a percentage of the home’s
price: property taxes, 2.5 percent; homeowner’s insurance, 0.5 percent; and maintenance, 0.7 percent. She is in the 25 percent tax bracket. Using Worksheet 5.2, calculate the cost of each alternative and recommend the least costly option—rent or buy—for Aurelia. 


v.Bridget Morrow is a sophomore at State College and is running out of money. Wanting to continue her education, Bridget is considering a student loan. Explain her options. How can she best minimize her borrowing costs and maximize her flexibility?

v.Bridget Morrow is a sophomore at State College and is running out of money. Wanting to continue her education, Bridget is considering a student loan. Explain her options. How can she best minimize her borrowing costs and maximize her flexibility? 


w. Assume that you’ve been shopping for a new car and intend to finance part of it through an installment loan. The car you’re looking for has a sticker price of $18,000. Auto Boss has offered to sell it to you for $3,000 down and finance the balance with a loan that will require 48 monthly payments of $333.67 Four Wheel Specialists will sell you the exact same vehicle for $3,500 down, plus a 60-month loan for the balance, with monthly pay- ments of $265.02. Which of these two finance packages is the better deal? 


x.Using the simple interest method, find the monthly payments on a $3,000 installment loan if the funds are borrowed for 24 months at an annual interest rate of 6 percent. 


y.Find the finance charges on a 6.5 percent, 18-month, single-payment loan when interest is computed using the simple interest method. Find the finance charges on the same loan when interest is computed using the discount method. Determine the APR in each case. 


z. Assuming that interest is the only finance charge, how much interest would be paid on a $5,000 installment loan to be repaid in 36 monthly installments of $166.10? What is the APR on this loan? 


aa. Todd Kowalski is borrowing $10,000 for five years at 7 percent. Payments, which are made on a monthly basis, are determined using the add-on method.
a. How much total interest will Todd pay on the loan if it is held for the full five-year term? b. What are Todd’s monthly payments? 
c. How much higher are the monthly payments under the add-on method than under the simple interest method