PROBLEM BASED ON CHAPTER 15 – WACC AND THE HAMADA FORMULA Bickley Engineering Company has a capital structure of 30% Debt and 70% Equity. Its current Beta is 1.3‚ and its Market Risk Premium is 7.5% Points. The current Risk Free Rate is 3.5%. Bickley’s marginal tax rate is 40%. What is the Unlevered Beta of Bickley? Bickley’s management would like to change its capital structure to 15% Debt and 85% equity by retiring its bonds yielding 8%. The remaining long term debt will be at 7%. The
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Ameritrade’s Cost of Capital Harvard Case Study 1. What factors should Ameritrade management consider when evaluating the proposed advertising program and technology upgrades? Why? One factor that is significant and pertinent to this case is determining the cost of capital that should be employed for Ameritrade. An appropriate discount rate is required to derive the net present value of the advertising program and technology upgrades. With that said‚ estimating future cash flows
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what can happen in an individual marketplace. 5. Ameritrade does not have a beta estimate as the firm has been publicly traded only for a short period at the time of the case. Exhibit 4 provides various choices of comparable firms. Which firms do you recommend as the appropriate benchmark for evaluating the risk of Ameritrade’s planned advertising and technology investments? Explain. The two firms that would most closely associate with Ameritrade are Charles Schwab and E*Trade. Both of these firms
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Jonathan Lewellen Financial Management 15.414 Summer 2003 Assignment 5 – Due Monday‚ Aug. 11 Read ‘Cost of Capital at Ameritrade’ and answer the following questions. The spreadsheet ‘Ameritrade’ on SloanSpace contains all of the data in Exhibits 1 – 6 of the case‚ as well as additional data for the Fama-French three-factor model. 1. What factors should Ameritrade management consider when evaluating the proposed strategy? 2. Calculate Ameritrade’s debt-to-value ratio using both the book
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RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT COURSE E-TRADE FINANCIAL CORPARATION CASE STUDY by Asli Seven Nazir Emre Adir Shamla Tsargand Lecturer: Andrejs Chirjevskis Autumn 2011 Question 1.Revise E-Trade Vision and Mission Statement.Develop a SWOT anaylses. When we have a look at E-Trade’s vision statement‚ we see that they emphasize on self-directed investors and the world market. For the company being reachable from even sitting at home is important. They say
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Cost of Capital at Ameritrade Day 1 1. What factors should Ameritrade management consider when evaluating the proposed advertising program and technology upgrades? Why? - They should see how revenues have changed after adopting the new ad program and technology upgrades - They need to see ROI for their investments over time 2. How can the Capital Asset Pricing Model be used to estimate the cost of capital (required return) for calculating the net present value of a project ’s cash flows? - it
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Online Brokerage Key Drivers and Strategic Response Pricing‚ technology and product improvements are the biggest drivers of market share growth for the online brokers. Regulatory ChangesRegulations like Dodd Frank Act have brought in sweeping changes to for the entire financial industry and have even touched Online Brokerages‚ these regulations are set to alter the market structure and hence would even impact the way brokerages carry out surveillance. Cost-basis reportingBroker dealers and
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aspType=10-K/A&CompanyName=WORLD+WRESTLING+ENTERTAINMENTINC) Edgers Online STN‚ 10K filing‚ 2004‚ Retrieved February‚ 11‚ 2005‚ from: http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/doctrans/finSys_main.asp?formfilename=0001047469-04-007557&x=18&y=10 Ameritrade‚ 2004‚ Balance Sheet Analysis‚ Retrieved February‚ 11‚ 2005‚ from: (www.Ameritrade.com/educationv2/fhtml/learning/balancesheetanalysis.fhtml) Fightnews‚ 2001‚ The Ultimate Fighting Championship‚ Retrieved February‚ 11‚ 2005‚ from: http://www
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Financial Statement Analysis Case Discussion Questions CASE: The Case of the Unidentified Industries - 2006 The questions are in the case. However‚ the following information might be helpful. 1. For purposes of this case the loans of the commercial bank are classified as accounts receivable and the deposits as accounts payable. 2. Unlike most business done on a credit basis where $1 of revenue creates a $1 accounts receivable‚ in advertising $1 of revenue creates $1/15% = $6.67 of accounts
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Corporate Finance Syllabus Spring 2009 Prof. Anna Scherbina UC Davis Graduate School of Management Office: 126 AOB IV Tel: 530.754.8076 e-mail: ascherbina@ucdavis.edu Course Focus We will explore how corporations make financial decisions through the analysis of Harvard Business School cases. Should a firm undertake a new investment opportunity‚ raise equity‚ acquire another firm‚ or conduct an IPO? How should small firms manage their working capital? How fast should a firm grow
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