Pontrelli Recycling Sara Doyle‚ Kevin Jackson‚ and Ali Lakhani FIN/575 Michael Plesko January 20‚ 2014 Pontrelli Recycling Pontrelli Recycling‚ Inc. has a mission to “increase the efficiency of recycling usable materials in order to create a better environment for all‚” and to “create value and a fair return on investment for shareholders” (Callahan‚ Stetz‚ and Brooks‚ 2007). A project must always be aligned with the company’s strategy and financial goals. When devising any new project‚ a
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Foods. Process Steps 1. Estimate the WACC for Kraft 2. Calculate historic growth rate 3. Calculate the average income tax rate and determine the relationship between sales and cost of sales‚ capital expenditures‚ depreciation‚ and net working capital 4. Determine the sales growth rate required to meet Kraft’s 2016 sales projections 5. Project 5-year cash flows starting in 2012 and ending in 2016 6. Discount cash flow projections beyond 2016 at the WACC rate to estimate the projected firm value
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steady state assumption that the firm enjoys no opportunities for abnormal growth or that expected returns equal required returns in this interval. Once a schedule of free cash flows is developed for the enterprise‚ the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is used to discount them to determine the present value‚ which equals the estimate of company or enterprise value. This note focuses on valuing
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Mercury Athletic Footwear: Valuing the Opportunity Active Gear‚ Inc. (AGI) is a privately held footwear company and is contemplating the possibility of acquiring Mercury Athletic Footwear. West Coast Fashions Inc.‚ a large designer and marketer of men’s and women’s branded apparel recently announced that it plans to shed its Mercury Athletic Footwear subsidiary. AGI’s head of business development‚ John Liedtke‚ believes acquiring Mercury Athletic Footwear is a good option for the company. Although
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(qualitatively) to value AirThread. Should Ms. Zhang use WACC‚ APV or some combination thereof? Explain. (2 points) * From the statement of AirThread case‚ we know that American Cable Communication want to raise capital by Leveraged Buyout (LBO) approach. This means ACC will finance money though equity and debt to buy AirThread and pay the debt by the cash flows or assets of AirThread. * In another word‚ it’s a highly levered transaction using a fixed WACC discount rate; however the leverage is changing
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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 rate that
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Chapter 9&10‚ financial policy 1) Duval Inc uses only equity capital‚ … answer: with a 11% return cuz wacc = 10% 2) 10.038: which one is correct? One defect of the IRR method that is assumes that the cash flows to be received from a project can be reinvested the IRR itself‚ and that assumption is often not valid. 3) Stern Associates is considering a project that has the following cash flows data. What’s the project’s payback? Year: from 0 to 5‚ cash flows: -1100$‚ 300$‚ 310$‚ 320$‚ 330$
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the Vodafone Case We start of with making the calculations for the premium that Vodafone is going to pay for Mannesmann. We know that Mannesmann will own 47.2% of the equity of the newly combined company. This is 47.2% from € 275 375 million‚ which is €129 997 million. Vodafone is offering 53.7 shares of the value of December 17‚ so € 4‚957‚ for every share of Mannesmann. Mannesmann has 517‚9 million shares‚ so Vodafone would pay 517‚9 million * 53‚7 * € 4‚957 = € 137 860.3 million. This would
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AFIN832 Case study 1: Star River Electronics Ltd 1. Assess the current financial health and recent financial performance of the company. What strengths and/or weaknesses would you highlight to Adeline Koh? From the ratio of profitability‚ the company had about 18% on operating margin‚ 16% on ROE‚ 8% on ROS and 5% on ROA in both 1998 and 1999. However‚ there was a downturn trend in profitability ratio in 2000. This could be the result of price competition because of the introduction of DVD manufacturing
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(1+KD/2)40 + 3.375(1-0.38)/(1+KD/2)n KD=4.52% C6: Using WACC formula: Rwacc =4.52*10.19% + 8.89*89.81% = 8.44% C7: average dividend growth rate: g = [0+12.5++ 20+12+8]/4 %=8% (Assumption: In this calculation‚ the growth rates significantly higher than 20% and negative figure have been ignored.) C8: Using CAPM: KE’=3.2%+0.91*5.5%=8.21% C9: Using DGM formula: P’=D1/ (KE’-g) =1.06*(1+8%)/(8.21%-8%)=$545 In Nike’s case‚ when Joanna Cohen calculated the WACC of Nike‚ she made several mistakes and led to a wrong
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