Assignment Overview
Before starting on this assignment, make sure to thoroughly
review the required background materials. This assignment will require you to
use the various discounted cash flow methods and dividend models to make
computations. In addition to knowing the computational steps involved in stock
and bond valuation, make sure you also understand the basic concepts.
Submit your answers as a Word document. Make sure to show your
work for all quantitative questions, and make sure to fully explain your
answers using references to the background readings for any conceptual
questions. Questions 1 and 3 will require Excel, so submit an Excel file that
shows your computational steps as a separate file in addition to your Word
file. Question 4 is purely conceptual, no computations are necessary but make
sure to apply and reference concepts from the required readings in your answers
to each of the scenarios.
Case Assignment
1. Suppose you buy a bond that will pay $1000 in ten
years along with an annual coupon payment of $50 and the interest rate is 4%.
Answer the following questions:
A. What is the value of this bond?
B. Now suppose the bond has no coupon payments (it is a
“zero coupon” bond) but still pays $1000 in ten years. What is the value of
this bond?
C. What would happen to the value of the bond if the
inflation rate unexpectedly goes up? What the bond value increase or decrease?
D. Now suppose the bond still pays an annual coupon of $50
but the interest rate drops to 2%. What is the new value of this bond?
2. The XYZ Corporation pays a dividend of $1 for
each share and its required rate of return is 8%. Answer the following
questions:
A. Assuming zero growth in dividends, what is the value of
each share?
B. Now assume a 4% annual growth rate in the dividend
paid. What is the value of each share?
C. Assume the growth rate is still 4%, but the required
rate of return drops to 6%. What is the new value of each share?
3. Acme Medical Corp. is expecting the cash flows
from 2018-2022 in the table below. After 2022 it is expecting growth in cash
flow at an annual rate of 3%. The firm has determined that its weighted average
cost of capital (discount rate) is 7%. Using the table below calculate the
following:
A. What is the present value of Acme’s future cash flows
using the discounted cash flow model?
B. If the firm has 200,000 common shares outstanding, zero
preferred shares, and debt with a market value of $10,000,000 what would be the
value of each share?
C. Now suppose the discount rate increases to 10%. How
would your answers to a) and b) above change based on the new discount rate?
Year
|
Cash flow
|
2018
|
500,000
|
2019
|
550,000
|
2020
|
620,000
|
2021
|
700,000
|
2022
|
800,000
|
1. Suppose the Alpha Manufacturing Corporation is
experiencing extreme financial difficulties and is considering bankruptcy. Its
shareholders are currently almost equally divided about whether or not the
company should go bankrupt, with one outspoken faction pushing for bankruptcy
and the other strongly opposing it. They have $50 million in debt all in the
form of bonds, and bondholders are pretty well united in that they want the
firm to declare bankruptcy.
A. The CEO announces that he is leaning against bankruptcy.
This means one faction of shareholders is happy, but another faction of
shareholders is very upset and the bondholders are also unhappy. Can the
unhappy faction of shareholders team up with the bondholders to vote out the
CEO? Explain your reasoning using references from the background readings.
B. Suppose Alpha ends up declaring bankruptcy. They do not
have any cash in the bank but they own $60 million worth of real estate. They
only have one type of shareholder—common shareholders. If they sell the real
estate, how much of this will bondholders get and how much with shareholders
get? Explain your reasoning using references from the background readings.
C. Now suppose that Alpha has two classes of
shareholders—common shareholders and preferred shareholders. Preferred
shareholders are owed $20 million in dividends that have been unpaid in the
last two years. If Alpha goes bankrupt and sells its $60 million worth of real
estate, how much will bondholders get, how much will common shareholders get, and
how much will preferred shareholders get? Explain your reasoning using
references from the background readings.
Assignment
Expectations
· Answer the
assignment questions directly.
· Stay focused on the
precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of
space to summarizing general background materials.
· For computational
problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
· For short
answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of
information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a
High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations. Another resource
is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC
Portal.
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