FIN 300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dividend Payout Ratio, Asset Turnover, Capital Intensity
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You are proposing a new venture, to branch out into animals and cartoon characters but this will require some new equipment and a capital outlay. Pertinent financial information is given below.
BALANCE SHEET
| Cash | 2,000,000 | Accounts Payable and Accruals | 18,000,000 |
| Accounts Receivable | 28,000,000 | Notes Payable | 40,000,000 |
| Inventories | 42,000,000 | Long-Term Debt | 60,000,000 |
| Preferred Stock | 10,000,000 | ||
| Net Fixed Assets | 133,000,000 | Common Equity | 77,000,000 |
| Total Assets | 205,000,000 | Total Claims | 205,000,000 |
� Last year�s sales were $225,000,000.
� The company has 60,000 bonds with a 30-year life outstanding, with 15 years until maturity. The bonds carry a 10 percent annual coupon, and are currently selling for $874.78.
� You also have 100,000 shares of $100 par, 9% dividend perpetual preferred stock outstanding. The current market price is $90.00. Any new issues of preferred stock would incur a $3.00 per share flotation cost.
� The company has 10 million shares of common stock outstanding with a currently price of $14.00 per share. The stock exhibits a constant growth rate of 10 percent. The last dividend (D0) was $.80. New stock could be sold with 15% flotation costs.
� The risk-free rate is currently 6 percent, and the rate of return on the stock market as a whole is 14 percent. Your stock�s beta is 1.22.
� Stockholders require a risk premium of 5 percent above the return on the firms bonds.
� The firm expects to have additional retained earnings of $10 million in the coming year, and expects depreciation expenses of $35 million.
� Your firm does not use notes payable for long-term financing.
� The firm considers its current market value capital structure to be optimal, and wishes to maintain that structure. (Hint: Examine the market value of the firm�s capital structure, rather than its book value.)
� The firm is currently using its assets at capacity.
� The firm�s management requires a 2 percent adjustment to the cost of capital for risky projects.
� Your firm�s federal + state marginal tax rate is 40%.
� Your firm�s dividend payout ratio is 50 percent, and net profit margin was 8.89 percent.
� The firm has the following investment opportunities currently available in addition to the expansion you are proposing:
| Project | Cost | IRR |
| A | 10,000,000 | 20% |
| B | 20,000,000 | 18% |
| C | 15,000,000 | 14% |
| D | 30,000,000 | 12% |
| E | 25,000,000 | 10% |
Your expansion would consist of a new product introduction (You should label your venture as Project I, for �introduction�). You estimate that your product will have a six-year life span (after all how many people will really buy this stuff), and the equipment used to manufacture the project falls into the MACRS 5-year class. Your venture would require a capital investment of $15,000,000 in equipment, plus $2,000,000 in installation costs. The venture would also result in an increase in accounts receivable and inventories of $4,000,000. At the end of the six-year life span of the venture, you estimate that the equipment could be sold at a $4,000,000 salvage value.
Your venture, which management considers fairly risky, would increase fixed costs by a constant $1,000,000 per year, while the variable costs of the venture would equal 30 percent of revenues. You are projecting that revenues generated by the project would equal $5,000,000 in year 1, $10,000,000 in year 2, $14,000,000 in year 3, $16,000,000 in year 4, $12,000,000 in year 5, and $8,000,000 in year 6.
The following list of steps provides a structure that you should use in analyzing your new venture.
Note: Carry all final calculations to two decimal places.
Find the WACC:
1. Find the costs (rate of return under current market conditions) of the individual capital components:
a. long-term debt (Hint: PV=-$874.78, FV = $1000, PMT=$100, n=15 solve for i)
b. preferred stock
c. retained earnings (avg. of CAPM and bond yield + risk premium approaches)
d. new common stock
2. Compute the value of the long-term elements of the capital structure, and determine the target percentages for the optimal capital structure. (Carry weights to four decimal places. For example: 0.2973 or 29.73%)
Find the Cash Flow from the project:
3. Compute the Year 0 investment for Project I.
4. Compute the annual operating cash flows for years 1-6 of the project.
5. Compute the additional non-operating cash flow at the end of year 6.
Find alternative capital budgeting measures:
6. Compute the IRR and payback period for Project I.
7. Determine your firm�s cost of capital. (Hint this is the WACC plus an adjustment from the write up)
Make Some Decisions:
8. Compute the NPV for Project I. Should management adopt this project based on your analysis? Explain. Would your answer be different if the project were determined to be of average risk? Explain.
9. Indicate which of the other projects (A through E) should be accepted and why.
Capital Budgeting Group Presentation Project
Instructions: This project requires you to apply the concepts and methods learned in the course. This is a group project.
Assignment: You are interested in proposing a new venture (Project I) to the management of your company. Pertinent financial information is given below.
Balance Sheet Data
| Cash | 3,000,000 | Accounts Payable and Accruals | 14,000,000 |
| Accounts Receivable | 24,000,000 | Notes Payable | 41,000,000 |
| Inventories | 45,000,000 | Long-Term Debt | 50,000,000 |
| Preferred Stock | 20,000,000 | ||
| Net Fixed Assets | 128,000,000 | Common Equity | 75,000,000 |
| Total Assets | 200,000,000 | Total Liabilities & Ownersâ Equity | 200,000,000 |
Last yearâs sales were $210,000,000.
The company has 60,000 bonds with a 30-year life outstanding, with 15 years until maturity. The bonds carry a 9 percent semi-annual coupon, and are currently selling for $870.73.
You also have 100,000 shares of perpetual preferred stock outstanding, which pays a dividend of $7.80 per share. The current market price is $94.00.
The company has 10 million shares of common stock outstanding with a current price of $15.00 per share. The stock exhibits a constant growth rate of 8 percent. The last dividend (D0) was $.90.
Your firm does not use notes payable for long-term financing.
The firmâs target capital structure is 25% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 70% common equity. The firm does not plan to issue new common stock.
Your firmâs federal + state marginal tax rate is 38%.
The firm has the following investment opportunities currently available in addition to the venture that you are proposing:
| Project | Cost | IRR |
| A | 17,000,000 | 21% |
| B | 21,000,000 | 19% |
| C | 16,000,000 | 15% |
| D | 28,000,000 | 11% |
| E | 25,000,000 | 8% |
All projects, including Project I, are assumed to be of average risk. Your venture would consist of a new product introduction (You should label your venture as Project I, for âintroductionâ). You estimate that your product will have a six-year life span, and the equipment used to manufacture the project falls into the MACRS 5-year class. The resulting MACRS depreciation percentages for years 1 through 6, respectively, are 20%, 32%, 19%, 12%, 11%, and 6%. Your venture would require a capital investment of $17,000,000 in equipment, plus $1,000,000 in installation costs. The venture would also result in an increase in accounts receivable and inventories of $1,000,000 (value at the end of year 6). At the end of the six-year life span of the venture, you estimate that the equipment could be sold at a $5,000,000 salvage value. Your venture would incur fixed costs of $1,000,000 per year, while the variable costs of the venture would equal 30 percent of revenues. You are projecting that revenues generated by the project would equal $6,000,000 in year 1, $14,000,000 in year 2, $15,000,000 in year 3, $16,000,000 in year 4, $11,000,000 in year 5, and $8,000,000 in year 6.
The following list of steps provides a structure that you should use in analyzing your new venture. Note: Carry all final calculations to two decimal places.
1. Find the costs of the individual capital components (15 points):
a. long-term debt
b. preferred stock
c. retained earnings (use DCF approach)
2. Determine the weighted average cost of capital. (5 points)
3. Compute the Year 0 investment for Project I. (5 points)
4. Compute the annual operating cash flows for years 1-6 of the project. (20 points)
5. Compute the non-operating (terminal) cash flow at the end of year 6. (10 points)
6. Draw a timeline that summarizes all of the cash flows for your venture. (5 points)
7. Compute the IRR, payback, discounted payback, and NPV for Project I. (20 points)
8. Prepare a report for the firmâs CEO indicating which projects should be accepted and why. (45 points)
9. Conclude the project with your reflections on what you have learned from this course and how it has affected your view of your own job and career. (45 points)
10. A 15-20 minute presentation will report out on items 1-9. (65 pts.)
Please Note: Complete the capital budgeting group project according to the instructions contained in the syllabus, and upload all documentation and calculations into this assignment folder. There will be only one submission per group, and submitter will be chosen by the group. Please let the instructor know who will be submitting the group project to Moodle.