Question 1. Luke believes that he can invest $5,000 per year for his retirement in 30 years. How much will he have available for retirement if he can earn 8% on his investment?
A. 566,400
B. 681,550
C. 150,000
D. 162,000
Question 2. An issue of common stock has just paid a dividend of $4.00. Its growth rate is equal to 8%. If the required rate of return is 13%, What is its current price?
A. $19.04
B. $80
C. $86.40
D. none of these
Question 3. Mike Carlson will receive $10,000 a year from the end of the third year to the end of the 12th year (10 payments). The discount rate is 10%. The present value today of this deferred annuity is:
A. $61,450
B. $42,185
C. $46,149
D. $50,757
Question 4.The growth rate for the firm's common stock is 7%. The firm's preferred stock is paying an annual dividend of $5. What is the preferred stock price if the required rate of return is 8%?
A. $5
B. $62.50
C. $500
D. none of these
Question 5.A ten-year bond, with a par value $ of $ 1,000, pays 10% annually. If similar bonds are currently yielding 6% annually, what is the market value of the bond? Use semi-annual analysis.
A. $1,000
B. $1,127.50
C. $1297.85
D. $2,549.85
Question 6. An issue of common stock is expected to pay a dividend of $4.80 at the end of the year. Its growth rate is equal to 8%. If the required rate of return is 13%, What is its current price?
A. $103.68
B. $36.92
C. $96.00
D. none of these
Dairy Corp. has a $10 million bond obligation outstanding which it is considering refunding. The bonds were issued at 10% and the interest rates on similar bonds have declined to 8%. The bonds have five years of their 20 year maturity remaining. The new bond will have a 5-year maturity. Dairy will pay a call premium of 5% and will incur new underwriting costs of $400,00 immediately. There is no underwriting cost consideration on the old bond. The company is in a 40% tax bracket. To analyze the refunding decision, use a 6% discount rate.
Use this information to answer the questions below.
Question 7.What is the present value of the cash outflows related to the call premium and underwriting cost?
Question 8. Round to the nearest dollar and omit commas and dollar signs (example: $25,000 would be entered as 25,000.
Question 9.What is the present value of the cash inflows related to the refunding decision? Round to the nearest dollar and omit commas and dollar signs(example: $25,000 would be entered as 25000
Question 10.Should Dairy Corp. refund the old bond issue and replace it with the new issue?
A) yes
B) NO
C) There is not enough information to make a decision.
Question 11. Investors consider which of the following to be the most important measure of bond returns?
A) coupon rate
B) yield to maturity
C) current yield
D) none of these
Question 12. Buchanan Corp. is refunding $12 million worth of 10% debt. The new bonds will be issued for 8%. The corporation's tax rate is 35%. The call premium is 9%. What is the net cost of the call premium?
A) $390,000
B)$1,080,000
C)$600,000
D) $702,000
Question 13.A bond with a coupon rate of 7.5% maturing in 10 years at a value of $1,000 and current market price of $776 will have a current yield of
A)11.3%
B)10.2%
C)9.7%
D)8.5%
Question 14. A bond with a coupon rate of 7.2%, maturing in 10 years at a value of $1,000 and a current market price of $ 800, will have a yield to maturity (using the approximation formula)of
A) between 10% and 10.5%
B) between 10.5% and 11%
C) between 11% and 11.5%
D) between 11.5% and 12%
Question 15.Market Enterprises would like to issue bonds and needs to determine the approximate rate they would need to pay investors. A firm with similar risk recently issued bonds with the following current features: a 7% coupon rate, 20 years until maturity, and current price of # 1,150. At what rate would Market Enterprises expect to issue their bonds, assuming annual interest payments?
A) 5.7%
B) 5.9%
C)7%
D)7.1%
Question 16.The dividend valuation model stresses the
A) importance of earnings per share
B) importance of dividends and legal rules for maximum payment.
C) relationship of dividends to market price
D) relationship of dividends to earnings per share