1. Dorman Industries has a new project available that requires an initial investment of $5 million. The project will provide unlevered cash flows of $725,000 per year for the next 20 years. The company will finance the project with a debt-to-value ratio of .3. The company’s bonds have a YTM of 6.5 percent. The companies with operations comparable to this project have unlevered betas of 1.20, 1.13, 1.35, and 1.30. The risk-free rate is 3.5 percent, and the market risk premium is 6.7 percent. The company has a tax rate of 34 percent. What is the NPV of this project? (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
2. Mojito Mint Company has a debt–equity ratio of .25. The required return on the company’s unlevered equity is 15 percent, and the pretax cost of the firm’s debt is 7.4 percent. Sales revenue for the company is expected to remain stable indefinitely at last year’s level of $17,900,000. Variable costs amount to 65 percent of sales. The tax rate is 35 percent, and the company distributes all its earnings as dividends at the end of each year.
a) If the company were financed entirely by equity, how much would it be worth? (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
b) What is the required return on the firm’s levered equity? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
c1) Use the weighted average cost of capital method to calculate the value of the company. (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
c2) What is the value of the company’s equity? (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
c3) What is the value of the company’s debt? (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
c4) Use the flow to equity method to calculate the value of the company’s equity. (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)