Meter-Matic Limited

NPV analysis uses future cash flows to estimate the value that a project could add to a firm’s shareholders. A company director or shareholders can be clearly provided the present value of a long-term project by this approach. By estimating a project’s NPV, we can see whether the project is profitable. Despite NPV analysis is only based on financial aspects and it ignore non-financial information such as brand loyalty, brand goodwill and other intangible assets, NPV analysis is still the most popular way evaluate a project by companies.

1. Was Borg-Warner’s Industrial Products Group a good candidate for a leveraged buyout in 1987? Evaluate the price paid and the structure of the deal that closed in May 1987. Are you optimistic about BW/IP’s prospects?

When the debt and the warrants are separable, the proceeds of their sale are allocated between them. The basis of allocation is their relative fair values. As a practical matter, these relative values are usually determined by reference to the price in the open market. The portion of the proceeds assigned to the warrants are accounted for as paid-in capital. The result may be that the debt is issued at a reduced premium or at a

o Cost of debt in this case is 12.5% though MCI can raise $ 100 million more with this option in comparison to option (a) above. Servicing this debt would be a significant drain on the cash flow. o Please see Exhibit 3. (c) $600 million Convertible offering @ 7.625% 20 year with conversion at 54 per share o Using this option MCI can raise $ 100 million more than option (b) at 4.88% lower rate of interest. It also gives MCI an option to convert it to equity once the stock price reaches 54 (it is currently 47). Based on previous convertible offerings (As per exhibit 6 of case, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982), MCI has been converting it to equity within 18 months because of its high growth. As higher growth is projected for the next few years (Exhibit 9 of case), MCI is expected to convert this $600 million offering to equity, thereby reducing its leverage. o This option allows to finance its current activities and match capital inflows with expected investment outlays in the near future. It also allows MCI the option to eliminate the cash flow drain from servicing the debt once the stock price increases. o As per Exhibit 3 attached here, this offering will provide capital to meet the external financing needs for 1983.

3. Is CoMark an attractive investment? What are your major concerns with the proposed deal? How attractive is the purchase price?

3. Should Midland use a single corporate hurdle rate for evaluating investment opportunities in all of its divisions? Why of why not?

The weak economic growth in Asia ad in Europe has helped in benefiting Canada and the US. Asia and Europe had also faced deflationary pressures which were caused by the changes in the rates of interest rates in the economy. The risk of the inflationary pressure in the US led to the increasing concern of the federal reserves. The Canadian bonds have been trading at a considerably lower yield as compared to the US bonds in the market. The situation was supposed to be maintained if the Canadian dollars in the economy appreciated relatively to those of the US dollars in the economy. The outlook for the bonds in the economy looked to be very attractive an aspect which was attributed to the changes in

There are numerous reasons for the sudden decline in value of Australian currency, one of which is the renewed strength of the US dollar, due to the American economy’s acceleration through its recovery. However, there is the additional fact that the RBA has been cutting interest rates, resulting in Australia becoming a less attractive place for investors, as well as the continual impacts of deteriorating commodity prices

The financial crisis of 2008 has been described as the worst financial crisis the world has seen since the great depression, but there are now murmurings of the potential for an even greater financial crisis, a currency crisis, caused by the demise of the US Dollar. The Dollar has been the reserve currency of the world since it took over from the Pound at the end of world war two, but we examine if it is about to crash spectacularly?

* For the corporation that has acquired another company, merged with another company, or been acquired by another company, evaluate the strategy that led to the merger or acquisition to determine whether or not this merger or acquisition was a wise choice. Justify your opinion.

1. Assess Interco’s financial performance. Why is the company a target of a hostile takeover attempt?

OCC and OCP together invested $750,000 into Dogloo in the form of subordinated debenture with 13% interest rate, which guarantees them stable interest cash inflows each year (Exhibit 4). The two investors’ combined ownership interest will be 0.5% of the Dogloo’s equity value because the company’s equity valuation is $213 million, exceeding $80 million; this will be the cash inflow at exit for the investors. Through calculation, the required equity value at exit is $238 million if the investors have an estimated IRR of 25% (Exhibit 4).

Higher leverage is very likely to create value for a firm considering capital structure change by exerting financial discipline and more efficient corporate strategy changes.

The market value of debt was calculated using the existing yield of maturity on a 5 yar bond issued on a private placement basis on July 1, 2000. With the coupon of 5.75% and the discount price of 97, YTM for this bond is 6.62%. With a discount price being 97, the market value of debt is 17,654M.

Comments from teacher: In question 1, why do we use these equitation’s, explain and show then, i.e. ROE can go up with more leverage. More on comparables. In Q1 assumptions explained, that are then used in DCF. Max for question 1 and 2, two pages. Must power to put in Q3. Deduct tax in table 3. In DCF, show more how calculated and assumption missing about other income and corporate expenses. Table 6 to be fixed (already been done). Skip in DCF advantage and disadvantage. Do table 4 different, use Exhibit 11, value range, use median value and calculate enterprise value with multiples en deduct net debt 318,5 and get equity value. Explain better in main text footnote 12. . Use