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> FX Bank has succeeded in hiring ace foreign exchange trader Lucinda Cable. Her remuneration package reportedly includes an annual bonus of 20% of the profits that she generates in excess of $100 million. Does Ms. Cable have an option? Does it provide her

> “The buyer of the call and the seller of the put both hope that the stock price will rise. Therefore the two positions are identical.” Is the speaker correct? Illustrate with a position diagram.

> Discuss briefly the risks and payoffs of the following positions: a. Buy stock and a put option on the stock. b. Buy stock. c. Buy call. d. Buy stock and sell call option on the stock. e. Buy bond. f. Buy stock, buy put, and sell call. g. Sell put.

> Look again at Figure 20.13. It appears that the investor in panel (b) can’t lose and the investor in panel (a) can’t win. Is that correct? Explain.

> Suppose you buy a one-year European call option on Wombat stock with an exercise price of $100 and sell a one-year European put option with the same exercise price. The current stock price is $100, and the interest rate is 10%. a. Draw a position diagram

> There is another strategy involving calls and borrowing or lending that gives the same payoffs as the strategy described in Problem 3. What is the alternative strategy? Problem#3: Suppose that you hold a share of stock and a put option on that share. Wh

> What is put–call parity and why does it hold? Could you apply the parity formula to a call and put with different exercise prices?

> Suppose that you hold a share of stock and a put option on that share. What is the payoff when the option expires if (a) the stock price is below the exercise price? (b) the stock price is above the exercise price?

> You’ve just completed a month-long study of energy markets and conclude that energy prices will be much more volatile in the next year than historically. Assuming you’re right, what types of option strategies should you undertake? (Note: You can buy or s

> Three six-month call options are traded on Hogswill stock:
How would you make money by trading in Hogswill options?

> Which one of the following statements is correct? a. Value of put + present value of exercise price = value of call + share price b. Value of put + share price = value of call + present value of exercise price c. Value of put – share price = present valu

> It is possible to buy three-month call options and three-month puts on stock Q. Both options have an exercise price of $60 and both are worth $10. If the interest rate is 5% a year, what is the stock price? (Hint: Use put–call parity.)

> Pintail’s stock price is currently $200. A one-year American call option has an exercise price of $50 and is priced at $75. How would you take advantage of this great opportunity? Now suppose the option is a European call. What would you do?

> Complete the following passage: A ______ option gives its owner the opportunity to buy a stock at a specified price that is generally called the _____ price. A ____ option gives its owner the opportunity to sell stock at a specified price. Options that c

> Gamma Airlines has an asset beta of 1.5. The risk-free interest rate is 6%, and the market risk premium is 8%. Assume the capital asset pricing model is correct. Gamma pays taxes at a marginal rate of 35%. Draw a graph plotting Gamma’s cost of equity and

> Omega Corporation has 10 million shares outstanding, now trading at $55 per share. The firm has estimated the expected rate of return to shareholders at about 12%. It has also issued $200 million of long-term bonds at an interest rate of 7%. It pays tax

> Look back at Problem 19. Suppose now that Archimedes repurchases debt and issues equity so that D/V = .3. The reduced borrowing causes rD to fall to 11%. How do the other variables change?

> Consider the following three tickets: Ticket A pays $10 if is elected as president, ticket B pays $10 if is elected, and ticket C pays $10 if neither is elected. (Fill in the blanks yourself.) Could the three tickets sell for less than the present value

> Archimedes Levers is financed by a mixture of debt and equity. You have the following information about its cost of capital:
Can you fill in the blanks?

> Imagine a firm that is expected to produce a level stream of operating profits. As leverage is increased, what happens to a. The ratio of the market value of the equity to income after interest? b. The ratio of the market value of the firm to income befo

> Each of the following statements is false or at least misleading. Explain why in each case. a. “A capital investment opportunity offering a 10% DCF rate of return is an attractive project if it can be 100% debt-financed at an 8% interest rate.” b. “The m

> Indicate what’s wrong with the following arguments: a. “As the firm borrows more and debt becomes risky, both stockholders and bondholders demand higher rates of return. Thus by reducing the debt ratio we can reduce both the cost of debt and the cost of

> Executive Cheese has issued debt with a market value of $100 million and has outstanding 15 million shares with a market price of $10 a share. It now announces that it intends to issue a further $60 million of debt and to use the proceeds to buy back com

> Executive Chalk is financed solely by common stock and has outstanding 25 million shares with a market price of $10 a share. It now announces that it intends to issue $160 million of debt and to use the proceeds to buy back common stock. a. How is the ma

> Suppose all plant and division managers were paid only a fixed salary—no other incentives or bonuses. a. Describe the agency problems that would appear in capital investment decisions. b. How would tying the managers’ compensation to EVA alleviate these

> Here is a limerick: There once was a man named Carruthers, Who kept cows with miraculous udders. He said, “Isn’t this neat? They give cream from one teat, And skim milk from each of the others!” What is the analogy between Mr. Carruthers’s cows and firms

> Companies A and B differ only in their capital structure. A is financed 30% debt and 70% equity; B is financed 10% debt and 90% equity. The debt of both companies is risk-free. a. Rosencrantz owns 1% of the common stock of A. What other investment packag

> Refer to Section 17-1. Suppose that Ms. Macbeth’s investment bankers have informed her that since the new issue of debt is risky, debtholders will demand a return of 12.5%, which is 2.5% above the risk-free interest rate. a. What are rA and rE? b. Suppos

> True or false? a. MM’s propositions assume perfect financial markets, with no distorting taxes or other imperfections. b. MM’s proposition 1 says that corporate borrowing increases earnings per share but reduces the price–earnings ratio. c. MM’s proposit

> Suppose that Macbeth Spot Removers issues only $2,500 of debt and uses the proceeds to repurchase 250 shares. a. Rework Table 17.2 to show how earnings per share and share return now vary with operating income. b. If the beta of Macbeth’s assets is .8 an

> The common stock and debt of Northern Sludge are valued at $50 million and $30 million, respectively. Investors currently require a 16% return on the common stock and an 8% return on the debt. If Northern Sludge issues an additional $10 million of common

> Spam Corp. is financed entirely by common stock and has a beta of 1.0. The firm is expected to generate a level, perpetual stream of earnings and dividends. The stock has a price–earnings ratio of 8 and a cost of equity of 12.5%. The company’s stock is s

> Ms. Kraft owns 50,000 shares of the common stock of Copperhead Corporation with a market value of $2 per share, or $100,000 overall. The company is currently financed as follows: Market Value Common stock (8 million shares)......................

> Suppose that new security designs could be patented.13 The patent holder could restrict use of the new design or charge other firms royalties for using it. What effect would such patents have on MM’s capital-structure irrelevance theory?

> MM insisted that payout policy should be analyzed holding debt and investment policy constant. Why? Explain.

> Compare typical compensation and incentive arrangements for (a) top management, for example, the CEO or CFO, and (b) plant or division managers. What are the chief differences? Can you explain them?

> What is meant by “the information content of dividends”? Explain.

> Which of the following U.S. investors have tax reasons to prefer companies that pay out cash by repurchases instead of cash dividends? Which should not care? a. A pension fund b. An individual investor in the top income-tax bracket c. A corporation d

> Mr. Milquetoast admires Warren Buffet and believes that Berkshire Hathaway is a good investment. He wants to invest $100,000, but hesitates because Berkshire Hathaway has never paid a dividend. He needs to generate $5,000 per year in cash for living expe

> Suppose that there are just three types of investors with the following tax rates: The remaining stock is held by the institutions. All three groups simply seek to maximize their after-tax income. These investors can choose from three types of stock offe

> Consider the following two statements: “Dividend policy is irrelevant,” and “Stock price is the present value of expected future dividends.” (See Chapter 4.) They sound contradictory. This question is designed to show that they are fully consistent. The

> The middle-of-the-road party holds that dividend policy doesn’t matter because the supply of high-, medium-, and low-payout stocks has already adjusted to satisfy investors’ demands. Investors who like generous dividends hold stocks that give them all th

> “Many companies use stock repurchases to increase earnings per share. For example, suppose that a company is in the following position: Net profit………………………………………..……$10 million Number of shares before repurchase…………..1 million Earnings per share……………….……

> Generous dividend payouts and high price–earnings multiples are correlated positively. Does this imply that paying out cash as dividends instead of repurchases increases share price?

> Comment briefly on each of the following statements: a. “Unlike American firms, which are always being pressured by their shareholders to increase dividends, Japanese companies pay out a much smaller proportion of earnings and so enjoy a lower cost of c

> An article on stock repurchase in the Los Angeles Times noted: “An increasing number of companies are finding that the best investment they can make these days is in themselves.” Discuss this view. How is the desirability of repurchase affected by compan

> How in practice do managers of public firms meet short-run earnings targets? By creative accounting?

> Hors d’Age Cheeseworks has been paying a regular cash dividend of $4 per share each year for over a decade. The company is paying out all its earnings as dividends and is not expected to grow. There are 100,000 shares outstanding selling for $80 per shar

> Respond to the following comment: “It’s all very well saying that I can sell shares to cover cash needs, but that may mean selling at the bottom of the market. If the company pays a regular cash dividend, investors avoid that risk.”

> House of Haddock has 5,000 shares outstanding and the stock price is $140. The company is expected to pay a dividend of $20 per share next year and thereafter the dividend is expected to grow indefinitely by 5% a year. The President, George Mullet, now m

> Look back one last time at Problem 17. How would you value Little Oil if it paid out $500,000 in cash dividends year in and year out, with no expected growth or decline? Remaining free cash flow will be used to repurchase shares. Assume that Little Oil’s

> We stated in Section 16-3 that MM’s proof of dividend irrelevance assumes that new shares are sold at a fair price. Look back at Problem 17. Assume that new shares are issued in year 1 at $10 a share. Show who gains and who loses. Is dividend policy stil

> Little Oil has outstanding one million shares with a total market value of $20 million. The firm is expected to pay $1 million of dividends next year, and thereafter the amount paid out is expected to grow by 5% a year in perpetuity. Thus the expected di

> Does the good news conveyed by the announcement of a dividend increase mean that a firm can increase its stock price in the long run simply by paying cash dividends? Explain.

> Investors and financial managers focus more on changes in cash dividends than on the level of cash dividends. Why?

> Half shell Seafood is still generating good profits, but growth is slowing down. How should its CFO decide when to start up a program of paying out cash to stockholders? What questions should the CFO ask?

> Fill in the blanks: “A project’s economic income for a given year equals the project’s _____ less its _____ depreciation. New projects may take several years to reach full profitability. In these cases book income is _____ than economic income early in t

> Some types of investors prefer dividend-paying stocks because dividends provide a regular, convenient source of income. Does demand from these investors necessarily lift the prices of dividend-paying stocks relative to stocks of companies that pay no div

> Surf & Turf Hotels is a mature business, although it pays no cash dividends. Next year’s earnings are forecasted at $56 million. There are 10 million outstanding shares. The company has traditionally paid out 50% of earnings by repurchases and reinvested

> Go back to the first Rational Demiconductor balance sheet one more time. Assume that Rational does not win the lawsuit (see Problem 5) and is left with only $1 million in surplus cash. Nevertheless Rational decides to pay a cash dividend of $2Â&nbs

> Go back to the first Rational Demiconductor balance sheet. Now assume that Rational wins a lawsuit and is paid $1 million in cash. Its market capitalization rises by that amount. It decides to pay out $2 per share instead of $1 per share. Explain what ha

> Look again at Problem 3. Assume instead that the CFO announces a stock repurchase of $4 per share instead of a cash dividend. a. What happens to the stock price when the repurchase is announced? Would you expect the price to increase to $90? Explain bri

> Seashore Salt Co. has surplus cash. Its CFO decides to pay back $4 per share to investors by initiating a regular dividend of $1 per quarter or $4 per year. The stock price jumps to $90 when the pay-out is announced. a. Why does the stock price increase

> Here are several “facts” about typical corporate dividend policies. Which are true and which false? a. Companies decide each year’s dividend by looking at their capital expenditure requirements and then distributing whatever cash is left over. b. Manag

> In 2014, Entergy paid a regular quarterly dividend of $.83 per share. a. Match each of the following dates. (A1) Friday, July 25 (B1) Record date (A2) Monday, August 11 (B2) Payment date (A3) Tuesday, August 12 (B3) Ex-dividend date (A4) Thursday, Augus

> Explain the difference between a uniform-price auction and a discriminatory auction. Why might you prefer to sell securities by one method rather than another?

> For each of the following pairs of issues, which is likely to involve the lower proportionate underwriting and administrative costs? a. A large issue/a small issue b. A bond issue/a common stock issue c. Initial public offering/subsequent issue of sto

> The Modern Language Corporation earned $1.6 million on net assets of $20 million. The cost of capital is 11.5%. Calculate the net ROI and EVA.

> After each of the following issue methods, we have listed two types of issue. Choose the one more likely to employ that method. a. Rights issue (initial public offer/further sale of an already publicly traded stock) b. Rule 144A issue (international bo

> Here is recent financial data on Pisa Construction, Inc. Pisa has not performed spectacularly to date. However, it wishes to issue new shares to obtain $80,000 to finance expansion into a promising market. Pisa’s financial advisers thi

> a. Why do venture capital companies prefer to advance money in stages? If you were the management of Marvin Enterprises, would you have been happy with such an arrangement? With the benefit of hindsight did First Meriam gain or lose by advancing money in

> Refer to the Marvin Prospectus Appendix at the end of this chapter to answer the following questions. a. If there is unexpectedly heavy demand for the issue, how many extra shares can the underwriter buy? b. How many shares are to be sold in the primar

> Suppose that in April 2019 Van Dyck Exponents offered 100 shares for sale in an IPO. Half of the shares were sold by the company and the other half by existing shareholders, each of whom sold exactly half of their existing holding. The offering price to

> Suppose that instead of having a rights issue of new stock at €4 (see Problem 15), Pandora decided to make a general cash offer at €4. Would existing shareholders still be just as well off? Explain. Problem 15: Problem 14 contains details of a rights of

> Problem 14 contains details of a rights offering by Pandora Box. Suppose that the company had decided to issue new stock at €4. How many new shares would it have needed to sell to raise the same sum of money? Recalculate the answers to questions (b) to (

> In 2012, the Pandora Box Company made a rights issue at €5 a share of one new share for every four shares held. Before the issue there were 10 million shares outstanding and the share price was €6. a. What was the total amount of new money raised? b. Th

> Construct a simple example to show the following: a. Existing shareholders are made worse off when a company makes a cash offer of new stock below the market price. b. Existing shareholders are not made worse off when a company makes a rights issue of n

> There are three reasons that a common stock issue might cause a fall in price: (a) the price fall is needed to absorb the extra supply, (b) the issue causes temporary price pressure until it has been digested, and (c) management has information that stoc

> Here are several questions about economic value added or EVA. a. Is EVA expressed as a percentage or a dollar amount? b. Write down the formula for calculating EVA. c. What is the difference, if any, between EVA and residual income? d. What is the point

> Why are the costs of debt issues less than those of equity issues? List the possible reasons.

> In some U.K. IPOs any investor may be able to apply to buy shares. Mr. Bean has observed that on average these stocks are underpriced by about 9% and for some years has followed a policy of applying for a constant proportion of each issue. He is therefor

> a. “A signal is credible only if it is costly.” Explain why management’s willingness to invest in Marvin’s equity was a credible signal. Was its willingness to accept only part of the venture capital that would eventually be needed also a credible signal

> Here is a further vocabulary quiz. Briefly explain each of the following: a. Zero-stage vs. first- or second-stage financing b. Carried interest c. Rights issue d. Road show e. Best-efforts offer f. Qualified institutional buyer g. Blue-sky laws h

> Associated Breweries is planning to market alcohol-free beer. To finance the venture it proposes to make a rights issue at $10 of one new share for each two shares held. (The company currently has outstanding 100,000 shares priced at $40 a share.) Assumi

> You need to choose between making a public offering and arranging a private placement. In each case the issue involves $10 million face value of 10-year debt. You have the following data for each: A public issue: The interest rate on the debt would be 8

> True or false? a. Venture capitalists typically provide first-stage financing sufficient to cover all development expenses. Second-stage financing is provided by stock issued in an IPO. b. Underpricing in an IPO is only a problem when the original inve

> Explain what each of the following terms or phrases means: a. Venture capital b. Book building c. Underwriting spread d. Registration statement e. Winner’s curse

> Consider the following project:
The internal rate of return is 20%. The NPV, assuming a 20% opportunity cost of capital, is exactly zero. Calculate the expected economic income and economic depreciation in each year.

> True or false? Explain briefly. a. Book profitability measures are biased measures of true profitability for individual assets. However, these biases “wash out” when firms hold a balanced mix of old and new assets. b. Systematic biases in book profitabil

> Monitoring alone can never completely eliminate agency costs in capital investment. Briefly explain why.

> Herbal Resources is a small but profitable producer of dietary supplements for pets. This is not a high-tech business, but Herbal’s earnings have averaged around $1.2 million after tax, largely on the strength of its patented enzyme for making cats nonal

> Table 12.5 shows a condensed income statement and balance sheet for Androscoggin Copper’s Rumford smelting plant. a. Calculate the plant’s EVA. Assume the cost of capital is 9%. b. As Table 12.5 shows, the plant is carried on Androscoggin’s books at $48.

> Use the Beyond the Page feature to access the Excel program for calculating the profitability of the Nodhead project. Now suppose that the cash flows from Nodhead’s new supermarket are as follows:
a. Recalculate economic depreciation. Is it accelerate

> Calculate the year-by-year book and economic profitability for investment in polyzone production, as described in Chapter 11. Use the cash flows and competitive spreads shown in Table 11.2, and assume straight-line depreciation over 10 years. What is the

> Here are a few questions about compensation schemes that tie top management’s compensation to the rate of return earned on the company’s common stock. a. Today’s stock price depends on investors’ expectations of future performance. What problems does thi

> We noted that management compensation must in practice rely on results rather than on effort. Why? What problems are introduced by not rewarding effort?

> In our Nodhead example, true depreciation was decelerated. That is not always the case. For instance, Table 12.6 shows how on average the market value of a Boeing 737 has varied with its age26 and the cash flow needed in each year to provide a 10% return

> Consider an asset with the following cash flows:
The firm uses straight-line depreciation. Thus, for this project, it writes off $4 million per year in years 1, 2, and 3. The discount rate is 10%. a. Show that economic depreciation equals book deprec

> Ohio Building Products (OBP) is considering the launch of a new product which would require an initial investment in equipment of $30,800 (no investment in working capital is required). The forecast profits from the product are as follows:
No cash flo

> Use the Beyond the Page feature to access the Excel program for measuring the profitability of the Nodhead project. Reconstruct Table 12.4 assuming a steady-state growth rate of 10% per year. Your answer will illustrate a fascinating theorem, namely, tha