Connect 1 Semester Access Card for Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259289392
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 14, Problem 17QP
SML and WACC [LO1] An all-equity firm is considering the following projects:
| Project | Beta | |
| W | .75 | 8.9% |
| X | .90 | 10.8 |
| Y | 1.15 | 12.8 |
| Z | 1.45 | 13.9 |
The T-bill rate is 4 percent, and the expected return on the market is 11 percent.
a. Which projects have a higher expected return than the firm’s 11 percent cost of capital?
b. Which projects should be accepted?
c. Which projects would be incorrectly accepted or rejected if the firm’s overall cost of capital were used as a hurdle rate?
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1
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FOT expects to earn $2.7 million after tax next year and pay out $700,000 in dividends. Dividends are expected to be $1.05 a share during the coming year and are expected to grow at a constant rate of 10% a year for the foreseeable future. The current market price of FOT stock is $22 and up to $2 million in new equity can be raised for a flotation cost of 10%. If more than $2 million is sold then the flotation cost will be 15%. Up to $2 million in debt can be sold at par with a coupon rate of 10%. Any debt over $2 million will carry a 12% coupon rate and be sold at par. If FOT has a…
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16. Consider a firm with a market value equal 100. The firm is financed with a zero- coupon bond with a face value of 100, maturing at the end of the year. At the end of the year the value of the firm can be either 130 or 80. The firm has 10 invested in one-year T-bills earning 10%. The firm has just discovered a new project. This project requires an investment of 10 and will be worth at the end of the year, either 8 (when the firm is otherwise worth 130) or 16 (when the firm is otherwise worth 80.) If this project is taken, what will happen to the value of the stock?
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Increase by 4.67%
increase by 3.33%
decrease by 3.33%
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none of the above.
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