Fitzgerald Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investment of $5.6 million. The project will provide unlevered cash flows of $851,000 per year for the next 20 years. The company will finance the project with a debt-value ratio of 4. The company's bonds have a YTM of 7.2 percent. The companies with operations comparable to this project have unlevered betas of 1.08, .96, 1.23, and 1.18. The risk-free rate is 4.6 percent and the market risk premium is 6.2 percent. The tax rate is 21 percent. What is the NPV of this project? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89) NPV

Fitzgerald Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investment of $5.6 million. The project will provide unlevered cash flows of $851,000 per year for the next 20 years. The company will finance the project with a debt-value ratio of 4. The company's bonds have a YTM of 7.2 percent. The companies with operations comparable to this project have unlevered betas of 1.08, .96, 1.23, and 1.18. The risk-free rate is 4.6 percent and the market risk premium is 6.2 percent. The tax rate is 21 percent. What is the NPV of this project? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89) NPV

Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN:9781305506381

Author:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

Publisher:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

Chapter17: Long-term Investment Analysis

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