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Question 3

A company is evaluating a new project that requires an initial investment of $1,000,000 and is expected to generate $300,000 per year for 5 years.

The firm has the following capital structure:
Market value of equity: $4 million
Market value of debt: $1 million
Cost of equity: 12%
Cost of debt: 6%
• Corporate tax rate: 25%

Assume the project has average risk.

Requirements:
1. Calculate the company’s WACC (5 Points)
2. Compute the project’s NPV (3 Points)
3. Should the firm accept the project? (2 Points)

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Wells SD but with former Goldman banker:


You have an industrial company with volatile cashflows and there is a predicted downturn in the economy in six months. The company is spending 200 million on dividend payouts and 200 million on share buybacks. 

  1. How would you advise the company?
  2. If you were to reallocate cash, how much of the 200 million dividend and 200 million buybacks would you reallocate?

My answers:

  1. Refinance fixed rate debt instruments, locking in a stable rate ahead of future volatility. Reduce dividends and share buybacks and reallocate cash into lowering floating rate bank debt.
  2. Reduced buybacks potentially lead to more dilution harming investor sentiment while reduced dividends directly lowers EPS and increases the PE ratio. Both of them have the potential to lower share price especially given the weak future market already applying pressure on investor sentiment. Ultimately reallocate based on which will have a smaller effect on investor sentiment. (This is all larp, I had no idea what the right answer for this was)
 

Yea I assumed that the economy would be more volatile rather than a clear recession, causing rates to potentially fluctuate both up and down. I'm also not too familiar with the frequency of rate changes and the timing of refinances so I made a lot of assumptions. I guess he was satisfied with my answer because I got the offer.

 
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It's a trick question; the answer is not enough information. We need to know the location of the company. If it is in Anchorage they have a 10% deduction in profits to account for employees over eating on the clock

 

how do u discount the cfs mid interview w no calculator or anything? is there some kind of rule/trick?

 

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