See attached file. First carefully study the financial data and info which is entitled 'Selected Apple Inc.' (AAPL) Financial Data and Info and is provided as an attachmentat. Next, answer the two questions that follow. A. Strictly based on the given information, can you tell me if Apple's stock was efficiently priced at t
The controller of Dugan Industries has collected the following monthly expense data for use in analyzing the cost behavior of maintenance costs. MONTH- MAINTENANCE COST MACHINE HOURS January $2,400 300 February
You are given the following spot exchange rates: SFr in Zurich, S(SFr/$): 1.6000-35 SFr/$ £ in NY, S($/£): 1.9810-50 $/£ As a banker in London, you would like to quote a British pound cross-rate for Swiss Franc (i.e., S(£/SFr)). If you anticipate to be the sole banker in the world quoting this cross-rate, what is
One method commonly used by both governments and private health insurers to control the growth in health care spending are limits to reimbursement to providers. How can these limits to reimbursement be viewed as the exercise of monopsony power? To prevent health care providers from prescribing more services it is often common to
1. Company makes rubber stamps which sells for $400 each; their fixed costs are $75,000 and variable costs are $250 per rubber stamp. What is the break even point in dollars and in units? 2. What is the terminal value at the end of 3 years for $100 deposit per year if it earns interest at 8% compounded annually?
Company has had declining sales and increasing expenses over the last decade and expects this trend to continue. As a result, the company predicts that earnings and dividends will decline indefinitely at a rate of 4% per year. Company's last dividend (D/OD) was $2 per share. If the market required rate of return is 125%, es
Company stock is currently selling for $25 a share. Company is expected to pay a dividend of $.75 at end of this year. If company stock is bought today and sold for $29 after receiving the dividend, what rate of return would you earn?
Which of the following statements concerning common stock and the investment banking process is NOT CORRECT? A. The preemptive right gives each existing common stockholder the right to purchase his or her proportionate share of a new stock issue. B. If a firm sells 1,000,000 new shares of Class B stock, the transacti
Dunbar Hardware, a national hardware chain, is considering purchasing a smaller chain, Eastern Hardware. Dunbar's analysts project that the merger will result in incremental free flows and interest tax savings with a combined present value of $72.52 million, and they have determined that the appropriate discount rate for valuing
Which of the following is generally NOT true and an advantage of going public? a. Facilitates stockholder diversification. b. Increases the liquidity of the firm's stock. c. Makes it easier to obtain new equity capital. d. Establishes a market value for the firm. e. Makes it easier for owner-managers to
Which of the following does NOT always increase a company's market value? a. Increasing the expected growth rate of sales. b. Increasing the expected operating profitability (NOPAT/Sales). c. Decreasing the capital requirements (Capital/Sales). d. Decreasing the weighted average cost of capital. e. Inc
Firm L has debt with a market value of $200,000 and a yield of 9%. The firm's equity has a market value of $300,000, its earnings are growing at a 5% rate, and its tax rate is 40%. A similar firm with no debt has a cost of equity of 12%. Under the MM extension with growth, what would Firm L's total value be if it had no debt?
You want to purchase an automobile for $34,633. The dealer offers you 0% financing for 72 months or a $3,076 rebate. You can obtain financing for 72 months at the local bank. Which option should you choose? 0% financing Rebate How much money will you save per month with your choose? $ _____
X company has total annual sales (all credit) of $400,000 and a gross profit margin of 20%. Its current assets are $80,000; current liabilities $60,000; inventories $30,000; cash $10,000. a) How much average inventory should be carried if management wants the inventory turnover to 4? b) How rapidly (in how many days) mus
Assume you obtain the following information about a certain company: Total assets $50,000,000 Total equity $25,000,000 Net income $ 3,750,000 EPS $5.00 per share Dividend payout ratio 40% Required return 12% Use the constant-growt
Suppose a hedge fund provides that the management fees are 1% of the total assets plus 20% of the profits annually. The gross returns on the fund are shown below. 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 End-of year assets 125,000,000 ? ? ? ? Gross return
1) A company's stock sells at a P/E ratio of 21 times earnings. It is expected to pay dividends of $2 per share in each of the next five years and to generate an EPS of $5 in year 5. Using the "dividends-and-earnings model" and a 12% discount rate, compute the stock's justified price. 2) A particular company currently has
1. The real return is 10% and the expected rate of inflation is 4.5%. what is the nominal rate? 2. a company had sales of $1,250,000, cost of goods sold of $750,000 depreciation expenses of $250,000 and interest expenses of $50,000. If the company's tax rate is 34% and the income state is complete, what is this firm's opera
Define Variable and Fixed Cots - For the variable cost, if the Unit price for service is $175 yen per hour justify variable cost associated with price which would include in this case probably only labor cost (for example, maybe 2 persons at 25 yen per person per hour? up to you!) For fixed costs, make it simple, show an annual
What are new measures and tools has the Federal Reserve employed in the past two years that have not been employed in the past two decades?
You are trying to choose between two different investments, both of which have up-front costs of $65,000. Investment M returns $135,000 in six years. Investment N returns $195,000 in 10 years. Which of these investments has a higher return? use formulas (not excel)
Please see the attached file. Provide the correct short summaries to the following questions on annual percent change or rate of inflation figures. The following link will provides the applicable chart. http://www.minneapolisfed.org/community_education/teacher/calc/hist1800.cfm The price level starts at 50 in 1800.
Discuss what are the advantages and disadvantages of each of the following programs in terms of complexity of application and protection in the event of a default: a) Basic micro loan program. b) Basic 7(a) loan program. c) Patriot loan program. Note that, these programs are all a part of the Small Business Administratio
Describe the differences and similarities of the conduct of Chairman Greenspan and Bernanke in managing the Fed policy? about 150 words, two references
What keeps the Federal Reserve from being able to achieve its goals, and in what ways? about 150 words, one reference
A share of common stock has just paid a dividend of $2.00. If the expected long-run growth rate for this stock is 7%, and if investors require a(n) 11% rate of return, what is the price of the stock?
Consider the CVP graphs below for two providers operating in a fee-for-service environment: see attached file a. Assuming the graphs are drawn to the same scale, which provider has the greater fixed costs? The greater variable cost rate? The greater per unit revenue? b.Which provider has the greater contribution margin? c.
Consider the comments of Brian Walker, the president of Herman-Miller North America, who was quoted in the chapter as having said: 'For dot.coms, it appears that the market has implicitly capitalized a lot of those costs. The market views their negative earnings as investments in the future. It's more difficult for a traditional
Assume a firm has been growing at a 15 percent annual rate and is expected to continue to do so for 3 more years. At that time, growth is expected to slow to a constant 4 percent rate. The firm maintains a 30 percent payout ratio, and this year's retained earnings were $1.4 million. The firm's beta is 1.25, the risk-free rate is
List five different sources of short-term financing. Discuss the characteristics of each source and explain why a company might choose one over the other.