Investment and Capital Structure Case 5 American Home Products Corporation Assess American Home Products ’ (AHP) business risk. THE BUSINESS RISK OF A COMPANY INCLUDES ΒR WHICH IS RELATED TO ITS REVENUE AND OPERATING LEVERAGE WHICH ARISES FROM FIXED COSTS OF PRODUCTION. IN GENERAL‚ THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY HAS A VERY HIGH BUSINESS RISK DUE TO HIGH RISKS AND COSTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS. AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS HAS A LOW BUSINESS RISK IN COMPARISON
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American Home Products Corporation Symbol : AHP NYSE : AHP Business Description : American Home Products (AHP) is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world‚ based in Madison‚ New Jersey‚ USA. American Home Products is a corporation involved in the production and marketing of over 1500 consumer goods allocated among four distinct business lines. AHP is a company with virtually no debt and an impressive amount of cash in its balance sheet. The company is characterized by its
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American Home Product Corporation (AHP)‚ a highly growing American company‚ has four business lines: prescription drugs‚ packaged drugs‚ food products‚ house wares and household products. Its policies include: -A tight financial control and maintained an aggressive capital structure policy. - Make money for its stockholders and to maximize profits by minimizing cost. - It has been able to finance internally its growth while paying a very high portion of its earning to its shareholders
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| American Home Products Corporation | Case Study | | Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background 3 Culture of the Business 3 Stages of Development 3 Core problem 4 analysis and options 4 Risk analysis 5 First: The Business Risk 5 Second: The Financial Risk 6 Other kinds of risk: 7 Financial Analysis 7 The WAAC 7 Ratio Analysis 11 Recommendations: 12 References: 12 Introduction Background In 1981‚ AHP had reached sales of more than $4 billion by producing
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Write UP On AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION: Company Overview Background Information: American Home Products Corporation (AHP)‚ is a pharmaceutical company. The company was based in Madison‚ New Jersey‚ USA. They were known for manufacturing the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs Robitussin and the analgesic Advil (ibuprofen)‚ as well as the prescription drugs Premarin and Effexor‚ which both boast over US$3 billion in sales annually. American Home Product Corporation (AHP)‚ a highly growing
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Recommendation: Optimal Amount of Debt is 70% As Mr. Laporte approaches retirement‚ American Home Products (AHP) has an important decision to make with respect to adopting a more aggressive capital structure policy. Use of debt carries with it advantages and disadvantages. In accordance with value-based management‚ we recommend that AHP adopts a capital structure consisting of 70% debt. The following points justify such action: • The hallmark of value-based management is to choose strategies
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American Home Products Case Write-Up 1. A combination of business risk and financial risk shows the risk of an organization’s future return on equity. Business risk is related to make a firm’s operation without any debt whereas financial risk requires that the firm’s common stockholders make a decision to finance it with debt. Business risk can be evaluated volatility in earnings and profits (coefficient of variation of returns on assets and of operating profits). A measure of business risk
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debt-free balance sheet and growing reserves. The exchange took place in 1968‚ 4 years after Mr. Laporte had taken over as chief executive of American Home Products (AHP). The subsequent American Home Product Corporation (AHP)‚ a highly growing American company‚ has four business lines: prescription drugs‚ packaged drugs‚ food products‚ housewares and household products. For a quite long time‚ AHP has applied a tight financial control and maintained an aggressive capital structure policy. Its mission is
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launch variously strategies‚ with wild coverage of products via extended channels in more regions/counties. • Because of debt free strategy‚ the company had limited investment in R&D. Even they can provide the “me to product” but the industry will change with more related regulation to be generated from government‚ that will require each pharmacy company spend longer time‚ more money to do the testing before launch to the market‚ “me to product” will slow down the process to catch the new market
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Grant Nauta AHP Case Study Because American Home Products (AHP) currently operates with virtually no debt‚ their financial risk is very small. This shifts the burden heavily towards business risk. A porter’s five forces analysis is appropriate to determine the exact levels of business risk for American Home Products. First‚ the threat of substitutes is a risk that AHP cannot afford to ignore. Because they spend very little on Research and Development‚ and have to rely on their marketing to catch
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