recommendation is not to sell the mortgage-backed securities‚ how to value them on the end-of-year balance sheet assuming market conditions do not change. Given your recommendations‚ how much do you think a potential buyer will offer based upon a valuation earnings multiple of ten times sustainable earnings‚ plus the value of cash and marketable investments on the balance sheet? 2. In the case‚ Phillips questioned how far he should push the envelope. Why should he be concerned if all the actions you
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Introduction: Apex Investment Partners was founded in 1987 by James A. Johnson and the First Analysis Corporation. In its eight-year life‚ the VC had raised three funds. The two first which are already closed had‚ together‚ a committed capital of around $70M. There were mainly concentrated in four areas: • • • • Telecommunication‚ information technology and software. Environmental and industrial productivity-related technologies. Consumer products and specialty retail. Health-care and related technologies
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for PacifiCorp? What questions might you have about this range? Assess the bid for PacifiCorp. How does it compare with the firm’s intrinsic value? As an alternative‚ the instructor could suggest that students perform a simple discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. How well has Berkshire Hathaway performed? How well has it performed in the aggregate? What about its investment in MidAmerican Energy Holdings? What is your assessment of Berkshire’s investments in Buffett’s “Big Four”: American Express
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! ! 1 . How does Facebook make money? What are the value drivers of its business? What is its comparative advantage relative to other social networking companies? Advertising accounted for 98 per cent of Facebook’s revenues in 2009‚ 95 per cent in 2010 and 85 per cent in 2011. Facebook offered advertisers the opportunity to segment and target its users based on their demographic information‚ expressed interests and social connections. Another part of the revenue was generated by its payments business
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Ruiz and the Board believes that Gene One needs the IPO to reach aggressive strategic objectives of 40% annual growth rate‚ introduce six innovative products‚ and develop two technological breakthroughs. Of utmost importance to Gene One is assembling the senior leadership team in a collaborative effort toward super ordinate goals rather than personal goals. In order to minimize mistakes and to ensure a smoother transition towards the IPO‚ Gene One must benchmark other organizations that faced
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Agrawal Abhay Pandey Locker: 302 1. There were multiple barriers to starting a biotechnology firm in France: A) Expensive fund-raising: Raising capital was a huge issue in France. Unlike US‚ France did not have a mature stock market. Hence‚ doing an IPO was not a viable option. Additionally‚ the Venture Capital market was risk averse in France due to certain cultural barriers. VC’s perceived biotechnology as an extremely risky business and would not invest in this business unless the company has a
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Q1. If we want to do the stand-alone-valuation for Framedia at the end of 2005‚ we should calculate the free cash flow to firm after 2005 and the residual value of Framedia and then discount all the cash flows to the end of 2005. Because it’s stand-alone-valuation we should do‚ we need to value the whole firm and then compare the stand-alone-value with the synergistic value after the merger. So it’s the firm value we should compare with. We can get the effective tax rate by dividing the profit before
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BUFUN 750: Valuation in Corporate Finance (DC Campus) Fall‚ 2013 PROFESSOR Liu Yang (lyang@rhsmith.umd.edu) OFFICE VMH 4420 CLASS TIME Wednesdays 2 – 5:35 pm (DC1) OFFICE HOUR Fridays 2:30 – 3:30 pm or by appointment TA Tao Wang (tao.wang@rhsmith.umd.edu) G. Austin Starkweather (astark@rhsmith.umd.edu) TA OFFICE HOUR Mondays 1 – 2pm (VMH 3330G) Fridays 10 – 11am (VMH 4440) COURSE PREREQUISITE COURSE MATERIAL BUSI 640 or equivalent The required text for
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1. What does it mean if a company “trades at a discount”? Is Amtelecom Group Inc. (AGI) really trading at a discount? If the market value of a stock is lower than its intrinsic value‚ this stock is defined as “trades at a discount”. To figure out whether AGI stock is traded at a discount to comparable companies‚ as its management believed‚ we can simply apply multiple which comes from the average multiple of its comparable companies. Considering fluctuation of future after-tax earnings caused
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TASK 1 The statement by Henry Kravis that private equity was in its “golden era” might sound like hubris to the unacquainted observer but may actually not be far off from the reality given the growth of private equity funds under management since the advent of large-scale leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) in the 1980s. Henry Kravis as a principal partner in Kohlberg‚ Kravis & Roberts (KKR) pioneered LBOs in the late 1970s and KKR has been a major private equity firm since having reportedly invested in over
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