MBA 8135 Practice Bond Valuation Problems SOLUTIONS 1. Calculate the current price of a $1‚000 par value bond that has a coupon rate of 6% p.a.‚ pays coupon interest annually‚ has 14 years remaining to maturity‚ and has a yield to maturity of 8 percent. PMT = 60; FV = 1000; N = 14; I = 8; CPT PV = 835.12 2. You intend to purchase a 10-year‚ $1‚000 par value bond that pays interest of $60 every six months. If the yield to maturity is 10% with semiannual compounding‚ how much should you be willing
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Capital Expenditure Valuation Methods The payback period is the time it takes for a project or investments cash outflows to be recovered by cash inflows generated from the same project or investment. It is a very simple and commonly used capital budgeting technique. The formula used to compute the payback period is initial investment divided by cash inflow per period. You generally want to choose the investment that provides the shortest payback period‚ because you will get you cash back and it
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NEWS CORPORATION CREDIT APPRAISAL MEMORANDUM The report contains credit appraisal and valuation of the company on the basis of comparables company method‚ DCF and market valuation. Aditi Phadnis 11/02/2013 NEWS CORPORATION Feb. 11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COMPANY SNAPSHOT News Corp (“NWSA” or the “Company”) is one of the largest international diversified entertainment and media companies in the world. The Company operates in five industry segments Cable Networks- This includes channels such as Fox Ne
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Mercury Athletic Footwear: Valuing the Opportunity Team 10 / Mergers and Acquisitions West Coast Fashions‚ Inc (WCF) was a large business‚ which dealt with men’s and women’s apparel. One of their segments was Mercury Athletic Footwear. WCF wanted to dispose off this segment. They just wanted to divest because they wanted to focus more on their core business and move it up to the elite class. John Liedtke was the Business Development Head at that time in Active Gear Inc. He had a clear idea that
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To: JetBlue Management Team From: Subj: JetBlue IPO Price Recommendation Date: April 11‚ 2002 Introduction JetBlue is a company that was founded on not accepting the status quo with regard to how airline travel is “supposed to be”. Recent history shows that low-fare airlines are gaining momentum‚ and JetBlue’s business model sets us apart- our fleet is newer‚ more reliable and efficient. We offer the lowest cost per available seat mile than any other U.S. airline‚ and we do it while maintaining
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NOBLE CRUS A Case on Wine Valuation Group Members: ….. ….. ….. ….. ….. Background Reasons for investing in fine wine: * As an investment in future drinking – buying young wines which will improve over time. * As a financial investment – buying wines with the sole intention of reselling them later for a profit. The global demand for fine wine has increased enormously over the last few decades. Wine as a financial asset outperformed benchmarks such as Dow Jones‚ FTSE 100
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Equivalent COMPANY ANALYSIS The Comparable Company valuation system is for the most part the simplest to perform. It obliges that the similar organizations have traded on an open market securities‚ so the estimation of the tantamount organizations can be evaluated legitimately. The investigation is best utilized
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APRIL 2010 ST R I C T L Y P R I VAT E AN D C O N F I DEN T I AL INTRODUCTION TO VALUATION Presented by Tristan Fitzgerald Overview of the session Introduction Discounted cash flow (“DCF”) Trading multiples I N T R O DU C T I O N T O VAL U AT I O N Transaction multiples 1 What does the term “value” mean?1 The Oxford Dictionary definition “the material or monetary worth of a thing; the amount at which it may be estimated in terms of some medium of exchange
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IPO Valuation FIN-605 Md. Miran Hossain College of Business Colorado State University 10 September‚ 2012 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of going public? Discuss the IPO process. The Advantages of Going Public Financial Benefit The financial benefit in the form of raising capital is the most distinct advantage of going public. Capital can be used to fund research and development‚ fund capital expenditure or even used to pay off existing debt. Moreover‚ once the company is
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taking down the walls. The deputy sheriffs that Frick had used to guard the factory had failed him so he sent in for the Pinkerton Detective Agency‚ a private army‚ to come to his aid. Coming in on a tugboat by nightfall‚ the army came greeted by hundreds of protesters. No one is sure who fired the first shot but a battle erupted and after fourteen hours of exchanged gunfire the Pinkerton Detective Agency surrendered. I feel that management hiring an army against its own employees is outrageous and completely
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