Bond Case Sam Strother and Shawna Tibbs are vice presidents of Mutual of Seattle Insurance Company and co-directors of the company’s pension fund management division. An important new client‚ The North-Western Municipal Alliance‚ has requested that Mutual of Seattle present an investment seminar to the mayors of the represented cities‚ and Strother and Tibbs‚ who will make the actual presentation‚ have asked you to help them by answering the following questions. What are the key features of a
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HPL Case Tianli Feng Mengting Xia Qiang Luo Xian Li 1. How would you describe HPL and its position within the private label personal care industry? HPL manufactures soap‚ shampoo‚ mouthwash‚ shaving cream‚ and sun scream for retailers in US and these products are sold under the brand label of a third party. The company is a major player in the $2.4 billion private label personal care industry‚ with a market share of a little more than 28%. HPL’s focus on manufacturing efficiency‚ expense
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HANSSON PRIVATE LABEL Objectives: • • • • • Define and derive debt free cash flows Critically analyze the assumptions underlying financial projections Role of opportunity cost of capital in capital budgeting decisions. Calculate NPV and its sensitivity to project variables Alternative methods of project evaluation Overview of Hansson Private Label (HPL): • • • Given the comparable company information‚ HPL ranks mid-pack in terms of revenue. Christine Sinclair and Skin Care Enterprises are more
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of equity can be defined as the risk-weighted projected return required by investors‚ where the return is largely unknown. Therefore the cost of equity for the upcoming year can be inferred by using the Beta of equity in the CAPM formula. In the case we are given the Beta of equity for the corporation. Therefore to calculate the cost of equity we plug the Beta of equity into the CAPM formula. Through this calculation we conclude that the cost of equity is 11.23%. These are the results we obtain:
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I. Introduction/Company Background: Airbus Industrie (Airbus) was founded as a consortium of several aerospace companies spread across several countries that combined their resources and technologies to produce a competitive line of commercial aircraft. Over the years the company developed a reputation for being innovative in design and technology. In 1990‚ Airbus in conjunction with Boeing began a feasibility study to create a jumbo jet‚ but Boeing withdrew due to cost and uncertainty in demand
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constraints. If the CEC rejects a proposal there are large financial and emotional sunk costs‚ due to the long development process. Each project is evaluated in terms of its quantitative‚ qualitative‚ and strategic parameters. In calculating the NPV of these projects‚ Target uses two hurdle rates‚ 9% and 4% for the store operations and credit-card cash flows respectively‚ due to the different costs of capital. Funding credit card receivables requires less risk than funding store operations because
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TO: General Manager of Phuket Beach Hotel RE: Investment Consultation: Planet Karaoke Pub Vs. Beach Karaoke The Phuket Beach Hotel faces development options in its future. Planet Karaoke Pub‚ a restaurant chain‚ has approached the hotel to obtain a 4 year lease to occupy a 3‚000 square foot space. Should the Phuket Beach Hotel invest in Planet Karaoke’s proposal? Or‚ should the hotel develop its own karaoke business? Kornkrit and Wanida believe Group 3 is the most equipped to handle the analysis
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The Portes Case Boston-based Portes‚ Inc. is a software company that has been in operations for 10 years in the United States. Its flagship product is systems recovery software (called RecoverTM) that enables firms to recover data from damaged hard drives. The product has to be customized to client needs and the value of each product unit is high. The firm was founded by its current CEO‚ Diane Mullins‚ who is a software expert with a entrepreneurial bent. She studied computer science as an
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calculate the cost of equity for these projects because of the information provided. The information provided is the beta‚ the risk-free rate‚ and market risk premium Which‚ if any‚ of the projects are unacceptable and why? Include on ONE graph the NPV profile for each project. Project D is unacceptable Rank the projects that are acceptable‚ according to your criterion of choice. According to my criterion I will rank the projects that are acceptable. As previously stated project D is unacceptable
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Case Summary * Victoria Chemicals‚ a major company in the chemical industry‚ was the number one producer of polypropylene‚ a polymer used in various everyday items. * Victoria Chemicals at the end of 2007 was in a financial slump and was under pressure to improve their financial performance. * Due to this financial slump‚ Lucy Morris‚ the Plant Manager at Merseyside Works‚ proposed a GBP12 million project to help modernize the production line of polypropylene by: * Remodeling and
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