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2. Now, regardless of your answer to Question 1, assume that the 5-year bond selling for $800.00, the 15-year bond is selling for $865.49, and the 25-year bond is selling for $1,320.00.

You recently purchased a stock that is expected to earn 12% in a booming economy, 8% in a normal economy and lose 5% in a recessionary economy. There is a 15% probability of a boom, a 75% chance of a normal economy, and a 10% chance of a recession. What is your expected rate of return on this stock?

1. If Middlesex increases its cash dividends in 2012 at the same rate of growth as its Net Income rate, what will be the total 2012 dividend payout in Dollars?

21. Universal Forests current stock price is $154.00 and it is likely to pay a $5.23 dividend next year. Since analysts estimate Universal Forest will have a 13.0% growth rate what is the required return?

14. Global Enterprises has just signed a $3 million contract. The contract calls for a payment of $.5 million today, $.9 million one year from today, and $1.6 million two years from today. What is this contract really worth if Global Enterprises can earn 12 percent on its money?

b. What would Mrs. Beach have to deposit if she were to use common stock and earned an average rate of return of 11%.

-Martin Industries just paid an annual dividend of $1.30 a share. The market price of the stock is $36.80 and the growth rate is 6.0 percent. What is the firm's cost of equity?

Dividends were assumed to grow at the geometric average of the last 6 years, 20.28%. P0 = D2 Dn Pn D1 + + ··· + + 1 2 n (1 + Ke ) (1 + Ke ) (1 + Ke ) (1 + Ke )n $1.58 $2.28 $87.31 $1.31 + + ··· + + = 1 2 4 (1 + 7.0%) (1 + 7.0%) (1 + 7.0%) (1 + 7.0%)4 = $72.53

Corporate Finance ADM 3350 M & P (Winter 2015) Assignment 1 Due Date: February 23, 2015 Question 1 (5 Marks) Varta Inc. has just issued a dividend of $1.50 per share on its common stock. The company paid dividends of $1.10, $1.15, $1.25, and $1.37 per share in the last four years. The stock currently sells for $48. a. What is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity capital using the arithmetic average growth rate in dividends? b. What if you use the geometric average growth rate? Solution: (3 + 2 = 5 Marks)

b. Generate a graph or table showing how the bond’s present value changes for semi-annually compounded interest rates between 1% and 15%.

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.

2. The discount rate for this bond would be 0.70%. I started with an appropriate discount rate to derive my bond purchase price, since I would not purchase a bond without finding out ahead of time what a good price should be.

(10 points) Mango, Inc. has had debt with market value of $1 million that has paid a 6% coupon and has had an expiration date that is far, far away. The expected annual earnings before interest and taxes for the firm are $2 million and the firm has not grown, nor does it have plans for any growth. The firm however has just raised more equity to retire all its debt. If the required rate of return to equity-holders (after the capital structure change) is now 20%, what is the market value of the firm? Assume there are no taxes. (Enter just the number without the $ sign or a comma; round to the nearest whole dollar.)

First we need to get the present value of the annuity for the 1,500 semiannual PMTs at year 14

3. A european corporation has issued bonds with a par value of Sfr 1,000 and an annual coupon of 5 percent. The last coupon on these bonds was paid four months ago, and their current clean price is 90 percent.