Case Study Preparation Questions Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group Shiyu Liu 1. Include a paragraph to summarize the case. A group of private equity investors – Apax Partner and Hick Muse are two private equity firms that are interested in buying the Yell Group. Yell Group comprises of two businesses that operated in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Yellow Pages is a classified directory business in the UK while Yellow Book is an independent directory business
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HPL Case Tianli Feng Mengting Xia Qiang Luo Xian Li 1. How would you describe HPL and its position within the private label personal care industry? HPL manufactures soap‚ shampoo‚ mouthwash‚ shaving cream‚ and sun scream for retailers in US and these products are sold under the brand label of a third party. The company is a major player in the $2.4 billion private label personal care industry‚ with a market share of a little more than 28%. HPL’s focus on manufacturing efficiency‚ expense
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| Marriott Case | Cost of Capital | | Facts: Dan Cohrs is preparing the annual hurdle rates for the three divisions of Marriot Corporation (Lodging‚ Contracts‚ and Restaurants) which will have a significant impact on the firm’s financial and operating strategies. Marriott’s has been truthful to its operating strategy to remain a premier growth company‚ Marriott’s sales and earnings per share have doubled over the last four years. In 1987 Marriot’s sales rose 24%‚ the return on equity
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at Ameritrade Due: Wednesday‚ November 28‚ 2012‚ by 9:00 a.m. The course material covered in weeks 4 and 5 should be sufficient for doing this problem set. The questions below are for the Cost of Capital at Ameritrade case in your course packet. You can find the data for this case on the course website in a spreadsheet named Ameritrade.xls. Please turn in your problem set solutions by posting them to bSpace as an Excel file or pdf file. Upload a single solution for each group‚ with all group members
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unknown. Therefore the cost of equity for the upcoming year can be inferred by using the Beta of equity in the CAPM formula. In the case we are given the Beta of equity for the corporation. Therefore to calculate the cost of equity we plug the Beta of equity into the CAPM formula. Through this calculation we conclude that the cost of equity is 11.23%. These are the results we obtain: Company’s Beta of Equity = 1.25 | Find Cost of Equity (Ke) by CAPM | Ke @ EMRP of 5% = .0498+1.25(.05)
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the planes attractive to long route travelers. 2. Megan to plug in 3. Boeing has forecasted a demand of 330 VLA planes with a passenger carrying capacity of 550 passengers for the 20-year period through 2019. This is substantially less than Airbus’ forecast. In view of this forecast‚ it would be best for Boeing not to respond with a competitive offering to the new super jumbo jet launch planned by Airbus. The case says that other companies which were unsuccessful in launching a new plane‚
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Investments‚ Case 1: 1. For this first question‚ we will start by describe the 130/30 fund structure and then talk about advantages and disadvantages relative to a long-only strategy‚ but also about the operational complexity of these strategies and the main risks. A 130/30 fund structure allows the fund manager simultaneously to hold both long and short positions on different equities in the fund. Then‚ using this strategy‚ a manager can choose to buy a stock in order to make money and
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Case Two Analysis Dixon Corporation: The Collinsville Plant Paul Candland & Lynn Chang October 1‚2013 WACC Calculation In order to calculate WACC‚ we need to first start with the beta of equity. We are given the beta of equity of 1.06 of Dixon as a firm in Exhibit 7. However‚ the beta given is not an appropriate measure of the systematic risk of the Collinsville Plant‚ because Dixon produces many other chemical products other than Sodium Chlorate. Therefore‚ in order to accurately capture
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Ameritrade Case Background In his effort to increase returns for Ameritrade shareholders and make Ameritrade the largest brokerage firm worldwide by trading volume‚ Joe Ricketts‚ Chairman and CEO of Ameritrade‚ seeks to improve Ameritrade’s competitive position in the deep-discount brokerage industry by taking advantage of emerging economies of scale. To attract more investors‚ his strategy involves‚ first‚ cutting trade commissions from the existing rate of $29.95 per trade to $8.00. Second
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S w 9B08M070 THE REGAL CARNATION HOTEL‚ GUAM Jim Kayalar wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The author does not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The author may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction‚ storage or transmittal without its written perm ission. Reproduction of this material is
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