nature to create controversy even where it does not exist. Expert values have been fighting‚ in vain‚ to find out whether valuation is an art or a science. To set this rift at rest‚ Justice Viscount Simon of the House of Lords in Gold Coast Selection Trust case held that "valuation is an art and not an exact science. Mathematical certainty is not demanded‚ nor indeed is it possible". Thus valuation cannot be tied up by rigid laws of nature or science. It also cannot work under fixed and inflexible
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(resulting from $2.5BN cost savings) 7.0% net income margin 10.7% ROC Post-merger share price: $24.85 Synergy Calculations HWP Intrinsic Firm Value 3 6‚695‚889 CPQ Intrinsic Firm Value 10‚682‚654 Value of HWP + CPQ without Synergy 4 7‚378‚542 Value of HWP + CPQ with Synergy 8 2‚564‚626 Value of Synergy 35‚186‚083 Price Paid by HWP 2 5‚000‚000 Increase in Value from Merger
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Market Structure o Perfect (pure) competition Price–taking firms each with no influence over the ruling market price (see diagram below) Free entry and exist of businesses in the long run – drives down profits towards a normal profit equilibrium level Each supplier produces homogeneous products – each a perfect substitute – hence the perfectly elastic demand curve for the individual supplier Key factor - interdependent nature of pricing decisions between rival firms Each firm must consider
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com/Occasional_Papers/OP78/op78.html What is buyback? Buyback is reverse of issue of shares by a company where it offers to take back its shares owned by the investors at a specified price; this offer can be binding or optional to the investors. Why companies buyback? * Unused Cash: If they have huge cash reserves with not many new profitable projects to invest in and if the company thinks the market price of its share is undervalued. Eg. Bajaj Auto went on a massive buy back in 2000 and Reliance’s
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2:00-3:15 September 20‚ 2008 The Brita Products Company John Deighton January 15‚ 2002 1. To what do you attribute Brita’s success? • It is owned by a well established and successful company‚ Clorox. • They own a large amount of market share. • Each pitcher sale starts a flow of filter sales. • Their customer lifetime value was remarkable. The retention rate is also a high 80%. • They didn’t give up in the early years when sales were very slow because they believed in their product
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sales of $5 billion the same year‚ earned similar shareholder returns between 1968 and 2007.3 These two successful companies had very different growth rates. During the period‚ the net income of Walgreens grew at 14 percent per year‚ while Wrigley’s net income grew at 10 percent per year. Even though Walgreens was one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States during this time‚ its average annual shareholder returns were 16 percent‚ compared with 17 percent for the significantly slower-growing
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Project Report Part 1 Introduction Care and Share is a nonprofit food bank that is a member of Feeding America‚ which is a large network of food banks across the Nation. Feeding America gets large donations from their partners such as Kellogg’s Cereal or Nestle‚ which food banks can purchase based on points. These points are attributed to how many people they serve and how well they comply with the standards of Feeding America. Care and Share processes donations of food and distributes to pantries
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ECN372 Corporate Finance 2‚ 2012/2013 Problem Set 5: Solutions 1. a) The face value of debt is given by: 0.5 × F + 0.5 × 40 = 60 ⇒ F = 80 The value of the firm is: V = 0.5 × 150 + 0.5 × 40 = 95 The value of equity is: E = 95 − 60 = 35 b) The value of debt: D = 0.5 × 50 + 0.5 × (20 − 10) = 30 The value of the firm is: V = 0.5 × 70 + 0.5 × (20 − 10) = 40 The value of equity is: E = 40 − 30 = 10 c) If the firms were to merge then: The value of debt: D = 0.5 × (80 + 50) + 0.5 × (40 + 70
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Cost Per Output and Cost Per Outcome Response Cost per outcome is the total cost of all units of service. Very simply‚ if you don’t know what it costs to achieve a certain output/outcome‚ you can’t know how much to charge for your services. A budget systems model is the foundation from which budgeting systems can be used to evaluate the success of an agency or company. Human Service Agencies receive pay based on how many people are helped‚ taking into account the cost of providing the services
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CHAPTER 6 INTEREST RATES AND BOND VALUATION L E A R N I N G LG1 Describe interest rate fundamentals‚ the term structure of interest rates‚ and risk premiums. LG2 Review the legal aspects of bond financing and bond cost. LG3 LG4 Discuss the general features‚ quotations‚ ratings‚ popular types‚ and international issues of corporate bonds. LG5 LG6 G O A L S Apply the basic valuation model to bonds and describe the impact of required return and time to maturity
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