The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: capital structure‚ valuation‚ and cost of capital Teaching Note Synopsis In June 2002‚ a managing director of an active-investor hedge fund was considering the possible gains from increasing the debt capitalization of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Wrigley had been conservatively financed and at the date of the case‚ carried no debt. The tasks for the student are to: Estimate the potential change in value from relevering Wrigley using adjusted present value analysis
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Nike Case Analysis Prepared for Consumer Behavior Introduction Nike is the largest seller of athletic footwear and athletic apparel in the world with subsidiaries in over 200 countries across the world. It is a company that was founded by Phil Knight in the 1960’s‚ who was a talented middle-distance runner from Portland. He approached the Onitsuka Co. in Kobe‚ Japan‚ and persuaded the manufacturer of Tiger shoes to make
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levels as they complete their work at Nike and represent the Nike corporation globally. •"It is our nature to innovate. •Nike is a company. •Nike is a brand. •Simplify and go. •The consumer decides. •Be a sponge. •Evolve immediately. •Do the right thing. •Master the fundamentals. •We are on the offense – always. •Remember the man. (The late Bill Bowerman‚ Nike co-founder)" Manager Manifesto -It is a set of Core Principles that describe how Nike managers lead with excellence
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History of Nike Nike‚ who currently ranks as 136 in the fortune 500 for America’s largest corporations‚ has come a long way since its humble beginning of in the 1960’s. Founded by visionaries Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight who at the time had no clue how much of an impact this footwear would make in the marketing world. Bill Bowerman was a track and field coach at the University of Oregon with enormous amount of knowledge on athletics and was always looking to help his players maintain the advantage
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Apparently‚ the issue of Nike’s case is to control and check the calculation cost of capital done by Joanna Cohen who is the assistant of a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group. But I am willing to tell you that it can be a complex case in which we can doubt about sensitivity analysis done by Kimi Ford (portfolio manager) too. Because her assumptions such as Revenue Growth Rate‚ COGS / Sales‚ S &A / Sales‚ Current Assets / Sales‚ and Current Liability / Sales have been adopted from previous income
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Capital Structure‚ Profitability and Market Structure: Evidence from Textile Industries in Bangladesh. Introduction In corporate finance‚ the academic contribution of Modigliani and Miller (1958‚ 1963) about capital structure irrelevance and the tax shield advantage paved the way for the development of alternative theories and a series of empirical research initiatives on capital structure. The alternative theories include the trade-off theory‚ the pecking order/asymmetric information theory
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Nike Project Report Mridul Jain‚ Krishore Veerasekar‚ Ziad Ahmed Table of Contents ABOUT NIKE 1 Description of Nike 1 MAJOR EVENTS 2 Acquisition 2 Divestitures 2 STRATEGY 2 Advertising 2 NIKE’S FINANCIAL RATIOS 3 Liquidity or Working Capital 3 Current Ratio 3 Quick Ratio 3 Working Capital 4 Efficiency and Asset Management 5 Total Asset Turnover 5 Fixed Asset Turnover 5 Days Sales Outstanding 5 Debt Management 6 Total liabilities to Total Assets 6 Long-Term Debt to Capital 6 Times Interest
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Proposal for Nike Dri-FIT Market Research Prepared for: Alison Dean June 14‚ 2009 Table of Content Executive Summary Background Problem Definition Research Design Fieldwork Data Collection Data Analysis Reporting Timing Appendices Executive Summary This proposal responds to your brief of June 15 2009 and describes: Business Objective: – to change‚ reinvigorate or phase out the Dri-FIT range of products Research Objective: – to assess if consumers are aware
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Contents Page Executive Summary 2 Nike Inc. 2 Footwear Industry 3 Analyzing a Footwear Company.................................................................3 Trends in the Footwear Industry…………………………………………4 Nike’s Strategic Enablers in Gaining Competitive Advantage 4 Marketing & Promotion…………………………………………………...4 Production & Distribution………………………………………………...5 R&D………………………………………………………………………...5 Acquisition Strategy………………………………………………………..5
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Operating Leverage Operating leverage can be measured if the breakdown of fixed cost and variable cost in a company’s operating structure is known. Operating leverage is normally based upon operating income to avoid muddying the signal with financial leverage or taxes. Computing operating leverage would be easy if the proportion of fixed and variable costs could be known with certainty. Consider a stylized example: Operating leverage is computed by dividing the contribution margin (revenues
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