Berkshire Hathaway is an American multinational conglomerate holding company that oversees and manages various subsidiary companies (Berkshire Hathaway‚ 2011). The current members of the Board of Directors are Warren Buffett‚ Charlie Munger‚ Walter Scott Jr.‚ Thomas Murphy‚ Howard Graham Buffett‚ Ronald Olson‚ Donald Keough‚ Charlotte Guyman‚ David Gottesman‚ Bill Gates‚ Stephen Burke‚ and Susan Decker (Berkshire Hathaway Inc.‚ 2011). The primary job of the Board of Directors is to see that the
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2. Do you think the CAPM model is an appropriate way to calculate the cost of equity for these projects? Why or why not? Yes‚ the CAPM model is an appropriate way to calculate the cost of equity for these projects because they are short-term and it takes into account the riskiness of each project. 5. Which of the projects are unacceptable and why? Projects A and B are unacceptable because they both have negative Net Present Values. 7. Which project do you recommend and why? Explain why each
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debt ratio is 60%; actual is 41% [Exhibit 1] βs = 1.11 βu = βs / (1 + (1 – τ) D/E) = 1.11/(1 + (1 – .44) (.41)) = 0.80 Using the target debt ratio of 60%: βTs = βu (1 + (1 – τ) D/E) = .8(1 + (1 – .44) (.6/.4)) βTs =1.47 Using CAPM: rf = 8.95% long-term rate on U.S. government bonds (rm – rf) = 7.43% average 1926-1987 rE = rf + βTs (rm – rf)
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prices so much different from another company and why do the prices go up and down? We will analyze at a set of financial data to calculate theoretical stock prices for IBM. We will use a systematic approach utilizing the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Constant Growth Model (CGM) to determine IBM’s stock price. 1. An estimate of the risk-free rate of interest (krf) was obtained by going to Bloomberg.com and using the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond rate. Even though our assignment sheet asks
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The people’s car – generically‚ Volkswagen in German – is almost as old as the automobile‚ and the type was familiar in Germany long before the advent of the Volkswagen. Usually these “popular” cars were minimal cars‚ though size and simplicity did not necessarily bring them within the reach of the ordinary man in the street. Henry Ford did build a successful universal car‚ to sell at a low price‚ but his Model T with its 2.9-litre engine was by no means a small
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Securities Analysis Index 1. The background of the company 2. AT&T’s Life Cycle Analysis 3. Analysis of Return on Equity 4. The company’s projected future growth rate of earnings 5. Analysis of its required rate of return using the CAPM measurement 6. The company’s intrinsic value using the discount valuation techniques 7. Conclusions 8. References 1. AT&T Background AT&T Inc. is an American multinational corporation that provides telecommunications services
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FINS2624 PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Week 6 CAPM: The covariance of an assets returns with the market and the required return of the asset. Assumptions: * Investors are price takers * Investors have identical investment horizons * Perfect capital markets * Investors are rational mean-variance optimizers β: Measures how much risk an asset contributes in the market portfolio. * β > 1 asset contributes more risk than the average asset * β < 1 asset contributes less risk
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1 PART A MULTIPLE CHOICE: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS Answer all questions. Write in your answer book the number of the question and ONE letter. Question 1 Consider a bond with a 10% coupon and with yield to maturity = 8%. If the bond’s yield to maturity remains constant‚ then in 1 year the bond’s price will be: a. Higher b. Lower c. Unchanged d. Cannot answer based on given information Question 2 The yield to maturity on a bond is: a. Below the coupon rate when the bond sells at a discount
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advertising and technology investments? Why? 4. Using the stock price and return data in Exhibits 5 and 6‚ estimate the CAPM beta and Fama-French factor sensitivities for the stocks of comparable firms. 5. Estimate the weighted-average cost of capital for Ameritrade’s proposed expansion. What riskfree rate do you use? Are the cost-of-capital estimates similar using the CAPM and Fama-French three-factor models? Guidelines You may work on the case in groups of 3 or 4 students. Please hand-in
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statistically plausible.[7] This view‚ that the data are too noisy to invalidate the CAPM‚ is supported by Amihud‚ Christensen‚ and Mendelson (1992) and Black (1993). In fact‚ Amihud‚ Christensen‚ and Mendelson (1992) find that when a more efficient statistical method is used‚ the estimated relation between average return and beta is positive and significant. The widely accepted capital asset pricing model (henceforth CAPM) developed by Sharpe (1964)‚ Lintner (1965) and Mossin (1966) postulates a
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