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7. Overall, the increase in net loss was primarily due to the lower-than-expected sales price and the increase in both marketing and fulfillment expenses.

2. Do you favor the proposed acquisition of UCP? What are the primary sources of value in such a transaction? Is the proposed price reasonable?

1. According to the case, it shows that management of M determined that a loss would be “probable” and the estimate range would be $15 million to $20 million. However, they determined $17 million would be the “most likely” amount of loss.

* Determine the value of Cooper Industries on after the synergy. We have calculated the new NPV for this

To evaluate this transaction for the benefits of HP’s shareholders, we use the excess earnings model to forecast HP’s stock price if it standalone, CPQ’s stock price as a separate company and the stock price after the merger. Then we make a comparison between HP’s stock price when it operates alone and the stock price after the merger to make the decision of merger.

-Jensen's Travel Agency has 9 percent preferred stock outstanding that is currently selling for $49 a share. The market rate of return is 15 percent and the firm's tax rate is 34 percent. What is Jensen's cost of

If BBBY were to use $400 million in excess cash and $636.3 million in borrowed funds to repurchase it's shares they would increase their basic earnings per share from 1.35 to 1.41 and their diluted earnings per share from 1.31 to 1.37. If BBBY were to use $400 million in excess cash, and borrow $1.27 billion to repurchase their shares, the increase of the basic earnings per share would only be 0.3 while the difference from zero debt to

A) What is the possible meaning of the changes in stock price for GEICO and Berkshire Hathaway on the day of the acquisition announcement?

Cost of sales was equivalent 78% of total revenues. The company repurchased 44 million shares for $1.57 billion.

A) What is the possible meaning of the changes in stock price for GEICO and Berkshire Hathaway on the day of the acquisition announcement?

5) Consider two mutually exclusive R&D projects that AMD, a chip manufacturer, is considering. Assume the corporate discount rate is 15 per cent and the minimum acceptable IRR is 25 per cent.

The previous 959.6m Amoco shares will convert into 633.336m shares of BP ADS equivalent, with the previous 965.6m ADS shares, BP shareholders will take part 60% of the new company, still have majority control over the firm. In this deal, we paid for about 20% premium, which is quite standard and normal. Because synergies from revenue and chemical divisions’ combination are not estimated nor not expected to bring benefit, the main synergy from the merge is 2 billion dollars saving of pretax operating cost. The value we create for our shareholders is $14,840.06 million (Amoco stand-alone value $46,430 million+ synergy $2 billion – price paid for Amoco $33,538.94). But this number is quite sensitive to a lot of factors, such as future energy demand, oil and gas price, industry growth potentials, ultimately affecting Amoco’s stand-alone and synergy valuation. Please

1. CSX wanted to merge with Conrail, because the consolidated company would have more than $8.5 billion in rail revenue and almost 70 % of the Eastern market. Gain in Operating Income from Cost Reduction would bring additional $370 million by the year 2000. Total gain from revenue increase would result in additional $180 million. And from the operating income would reach $550 million. Another important point in CSX-Conrail merger is the better competitive position in both long-haul and short-haul routes through cost reduction. The last reason for buying the Conrail was the fear of CSX Company to lose competitive advantage and as a result to lose a lot of revenue, if Conrail merge with

9. How should Redstone proceed? What price should he offer? Should the offer be a cash offer, a stock offer, or

Staples (2006), Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore, Johnathon B. Baker, Suzanne Gleason and Daniel S. Hosken leveraged extensive public record to provide a detailed discussion of the econometric models used in this merging case and to show how differences between the models led to the discrepancy between these estimates.