Seagate Buyout

Although the shelves are selling well, the total profit of the company is a concern. An engineer suggested that the current production of model S should be cut back because Model S shelves are sold for $1800 per unit but their costs are $1839. Therefore, company is losing money on each one. But

As a seller of SS to BV or IB, the reservation price for SS should be the minimum price for SS to accept the deal (either the cash deal offered by IB or the stock deal offered by BV). It is known that the minimum reservation prices of SS is the market price ($42.9) for cash deal ((Harvard Business Publishing, 2015). The determination of reservation price for BV needs to incorporate synergies and control benefits as a buyer. As a result, we will choose the highest reservation price using valuation methods and that is, $49.83 with the optimal synergies and WACC method. Though both differed from the average prices in the class, it is reasonable to suspect individuals neglected the cash deal option of IB and contributes to the higher reservation price for SS than my expectation. Also, for the overestimation of reservation price for BV, it is possible that single valuation methodology may trigger biases to lift up the result from its fair value. Hence, a weighted average of all valuation for the price may be more reliable and accurate.

With a probability of 70% in future cash flows, it will cause the total estimated future cash inflows to be really low.

Consequently they would 10 percent of all profits made by the shares. If they suffered a loss, then the

Likewise, there is no certainty that keeping the FF20 price will result 40% drop on the customer volumes, especially if we consider the market conditions, also mentioned just above.

A major issue is since reducing the price 20% reduces the profit margin to 15%, to maintain the same profit while reducing the price, the sales must be $28 million for this year. This is an increase of 233% in one year to justify reducing the price this much. This is a highly unlikely target.

Based on the case study Seagate Technology: Real time response to demand, the article discuss key points in regards to Seagate’s evolution of their supply chain to increase visibility and improve service. Seagate changes the role to a real time demand from a change in planned forecast, of which, allowed low risks. This allowed visibility of Holy Grail, which was also ideal for the supply chain evolution. In parallel, this applied to certain types of regulatory and legal requirements that of which Seagate faced in their global operations and supply chain management. This involves implications of foreign corruption act, in which Seagate ensures compliance with

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1.a) To value Spyder Active Sports Inc., we decided to use the WACC method since we can easily value its cost of assets with the data immediately available to us in the case. We first unlevered the beta’s of 7 comparable companies and took the average to get a comparable unlevered beta for Spyder (Exhibit 1). Since we are assuming Spyder is entirely equity financed, its unlevered asset beta is equal to the beta of its assets. We now have a rough estimate of Spyder’s asset beta, we can

It is important to note the large discrepancy in AMG’s and Forsythe’s estimates of the book value of hardware. Based on Forsythe’s 10.1% equity insertion rate, they are estimating the salvage value to be $87.10/unit, versus AMG’s $150 estimate. It is possible Forsythe has inflated this estimate to increase the lease payments, that AMG is overestimating the value, or a combination of both. If we calculate the NPV of the 24 month buying option by using Forsythe’s equity insertion rate as the salvage value, there is an NPV of $(5,217,043), making this option even less attractive.

Under the original organizational structure, Seagate’s management believed its current stock price is undervalued by the current market and thus not delivering the value to shareholders of Seagate stock. At this time, Seagate also held a significant stake in VERITAS stock, nearly 40%, acquired under a previous transaction. Not long after this initial transaction had occurred, the value of VERITAS stock increase nearly 200%, as Seagate’s stock rose only 25% during that same period. The value of the

4. The article said that K12 was the closest comparable company to Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone is marketable to a larger consumer base than K12, so I think that it should be able to charge a higher IPO. The case said that book was more than 25 times oversubscribed during its road show which means Rosetta Stone could charge a much higher price. But these subscriptions are volatile and the economy is recovering, so a price too high could deter many investors. For my analysis I took the EBITDA margin for years 2006-2008 and found the average increase during that time to be 9.93%. I then took the estimated share value from 2008 and multiplied it by 1.0993 to factor in the average increase in share value. This resulted in a price of $19.22. Given this number I would increase the current range from $15-17 to $19-24. The reason for the increased range is because of the

The most important is Enterprise value/EBIDTA. Helps to estimate the offer of KKR, inc and gives the answer to Question N4. (See the following table)

3. As we have capital cash flow and required rate of return, we almost can calculate the firm value of Ducati, but first we should get the growth rate of the company, since LBO affected the growth rate of first a few years, we just assume the long-term growth would be equal to GDP growth rate.

While this method utilizes the concept of cash flow and uses the initial investment as the denominator, discounted cash flow is still not used, and we suspect this method is geared more towards the comfort level of OL managers, while WD managers would continue to utilize the NPV and IRR figures.