INTRODUCTION: A portfolio manager at North Point Large cap Fund‚ Kimi Ford‚ considers buying shares of Nike‚ Inc. for her mutual fund management firm. In the mid of 2001‚ Nike arranges for an analyst meeting to disclose its Fiscal year results and also to discuss on renewing its strategies to boost its sales growth‚ profits and market share which were all declining. To cope from the situation it decides to develop athletic shoes in the mid-price segment‚ enhance revenues from its apparel line
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13. Relative Valuation - Using Market Comparables Zenu Sharma zenu.sharma@edhec.edu Course Road Map 1. Financial Markets and Management 2. Present Value 3. Introduction to Risk and Return 4. Portfolio Selection 5. The Capital Asset Pricing Model 6. Financing and Capital Structure 7. Interest Rates and the Valuation of Bonds 8. Project Appraisal 9. Capital Budgeting 10. Capital Budgeting with Financial Leverage 11. The Valuation of Companies and Stocks 12. Relative Valuation 13. Options and
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1.0 Summary of case study NorthPoint Group is a mutual fund management firm which invested mostly in Fortune 500 companies. Its top holding included ExxonMobil‚ General Motors‚ McDonald’s‚ 3M and other large cap. NorthPoint Group performed extremely well although the stock market had declined over 18 months. In 2000‚ it earned a return of 20.7% while the S&P 500 fell 10.1%. At June 2001‚ NorthPoint Group’s return stood at 6.4% while the S&P 500 stood at -7.3%. Nike‚ Inc. is an American multinational
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Introduction The new reproductive technology (NRT) is no exception any more‚ since Louise Brown‚ the first "test tube" baby‚ was born on 25 July‚ 1978 (Simmons‚ 2009). Before her parents Lesley Brown and John Brown met Drs Edwards and Steptoe‚ they had been trying to conceive a baby for nine years‚ but never succeeded. Because Lesley Brown was diagnosed with fallopian tubes obstruction‚ at that time‚ it indeed meant hopelessness of being pregnant without a miracle. Then the ungovernable longings
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BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY PURCHASES GEICO WARREN BUFFET Executive Summary Berkshire Hathaway has made a bid for the remaining portion of GEICO stock. This report reviews the offer initiated by Warren Buffett. The details of this report include: • Valuation of GEICO stock. The $70 offer made by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway includes a 26% premium over the current GEICO stock price of $55.75. This report attempts to determine a range of appropriate stock prices for GEICO. Using the
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Chapter: 01 (Introduction) 1.1 Background APEXADELCHI FOOTWEAR LIMITED. The history of Apex is not very old. Still it is one of the oldest Footwear and Leather Company in Bangladesh. The company was established in 1990 as a proprietorship company at Hazaribagh in Dhaka. In the very beginning‚ it used to operate as leather production from rawhide and exporting. From the year 1993/94‚ the firm started to deal as foreign buyer’s representative and leather chemical distributor .All functions of
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Investment Analysis (FIN 670) Fall 2009 Homework 8 Instructions: please read carefully • • You should show your work how to get the answer for each calculation question to get full credit The due date is Tue Dec 15‚ 2009. Late homework will not be graded. Name(s): Student ID 1. A constant-growing stock just paid $2 dividend and has a current market price of $30. Determine the stock’s required rate of return if the company’s constant growth rate is 5%. a. 5% b. 7% c. 12%
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1. How much value do you expect to be created by operating improvements and capital structure changes envisioned by CD&R? CD&R proposed changes to the following areas. a. US RAC on-airport operating expenses: Labor per transaction‚ administrative and other costs had increased 41%‚ 65% and 30% respectively between 2000 and 2005. In addition‚ margins were not constant across locations and varied from 32% to -7%. CD&R proposed that the operating expenses could be reduced resulting in cost savings
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Affairs: Tom Coughlin (Vice Chairman) left in December 2005 after pleading guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Wal-Mart. [1] Three Models: 1. DIVIDEND DISCOUNT MODEL The constant growth DDM stated that the current value of a firm’s stock price was equal to next year’s expected dividend divided by the investor’s required rate of return minus the expected dividend growth rate. And the required return could be decomposed into two parts: the
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Case Study on Nike Inc. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? The WACC is a firm’s overall cost of capital‚ taking into account the weighted average of its equity and debt costs of capital. A firm’s WACC is the minimum return (hurdle rate) required by its capital providers to stay invested. Therefore managers of a firm should only invest in projects that generate returns exceeding the firm’s cost of capital. For the company’s owners the WACC is the minimum
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