DELUXE CORPORATION Contents Section 1: DELUXE Corporation 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. Company Business Overview Macro-Evironment & Industry SWOT Analysis Porter’s Five Forces Section 2: Business & Strategy Risks / Financing Requirements Section 3: Main Objectives of the Financial Policy Section 4: Financial Flexibility – Cost of Capital Section 5: Is Deluxe’s Current Debt Level Appropriate ? Section 6: FRICTO Analysis Section 7: Conclusion - Recommendations 2 Section 1: DELUXE
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Level of flexibility * Mix of debt and equity * Other Issue As for what should Rajat Singh recommend regarding target bond rating‚ level of flexibility or reserves‚ mix of debt and equity and lastly any other issues. So‚ firstly look into the target bond rating‚ in our opinion DC needs to position itself to obtain a AAA rating. At AAA grade bond rating shows that AAA bond rating is higher in unused debt capacity so at AAA bonds rating Deluxe company has a lower unused debt capacity. So
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[pic] By: Michael Malone Statement of the Problem Rajat Singh‚ a managing director at Hudson Bancorp‚ needs to find a way to rejuvenate the paper check corporation. One main part that needs to be calculated is the appropriate mixture of debt and equity for the firm. The company needs to determine the correct mixture so that they can both minimize the cost of capital and increase the shareholders value. I will analyze the current and future situation of the company‚ trying to find the correct
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Deluxe Corporation Ninth Annual Institutional Investor Forum Sidoti & Company‚ LLC Jeff Johnson‚ Treasurer and Vice President Investor Relations September 24‚ 2010 Presentation Scope ■ Comments are limited to information already publicly released: – 10-K for 2009‚ filed February 19‚ 2010 – 10-Q for Q2 2010‚ filed August 5‚ 2010 ■ All estimates and projections are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual future results to differ materially from those estimated or projected
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will never change (FCF)‚ only the denominator will based on the cost of capital 3. What is the estimate of the risk-free rate that should be employed in calculating the cost of capiual for Ameritrade ’s proposed investment? - the risk free rate should be the T-bills rate or the average annualized total annual returns on US government securities = 3.8%. In my opinion‚ we should use the risk-free rate equal to yield of 20-year US government securities‚ because it is long-term capital investment. We
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(a) “Nemawashi” is an agricultural metaphor. The idea is that before a farmer plants a seed‚ he should prepare the roots and the soil‚ so that the seed has the best chance of survival. It is a political process by which an unofficial understanding is reached before a final decision is made on a particular matter. “Nemawashi” is Bottom-up style decision making (middle management has the greatest influence on decision making). The Japanese are primarily concerned with harmoniously working out problems
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DELUXE Corporation Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives Suggestions for complementary cases in capital structure choice and financial flexibility: “The Wm. Wrigley‚ Jr. Company: Capital Structure‚ Valuation‚ and Cost of Capital‚” (Case 34); “Rosario Acero S.A.‚” (UVA-F-1211); “Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation‚” (Case 26) In July 2002‚ an investment banker advising Deluxe Corporation must prepare recommendations for the company’s board of directors regarding the firm’s financial
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and critical review of the Equity Premium Puzzle Introduction First time this phenomenon was presented by the economists Rajnish Mehra and Edward Prescott in 1985. They discovered that the return from US equity investments in comparison to the return from a risk free government securities had been much far above during the twentieth century to be interpreted by the traditional economic theories (Siegel and Thaler‚ 1997). Also‚ significant research on equity premium puzzle was made by the Siegel
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How can risk influence risk premium? How are risk and return related? Risk and return are the fundamental basis upon which investors make their decision whether or not they should invest in a particular investment. How they are related and the influence between the two‚ is the decision making process that all investors must weigh up. This essay will show how risk can influence risk premium‚ outlining their relationship and how risk and return are related. Within any investment there is a certain
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