Financial Concepts Week5 Exercise9
Question # 00255435
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Updated on: 04/18/2016 08:55 AM Due on: 05/18/2016
| Financial Concepts | |||||||||
| Week5 Exercise9 | |||||||||
| Equity Pricing | |||||||||
| Name: | <your Name> | ||||||||
| Instructions | |||||||||
| Show work by showing the algebra in the Excel cell(s) and any intermediate steps in the calculations. | |||||||||
| Leave all answers to TWO decimal places. | |||||||||
| Q1. | Company A has projected net income per share for this year at $3.00 per share. It has traditionally paid out a dividend of 25% of its net income. Income and dividends have been growing at a constant rate (indefinitely) of 4% per year. The equity discount rate for this company is 10%. | ||||||||
| a) | What is the projected dividend for next year? | ||||||||
| D1 = | |||||||||
| b) | What is the current value of the stock using the Constant Growth Model of the Dividend Discount Model? monkey2 | ||||||||
| P0 = | |||||||||
| Q2. | If from Question 1, having that projected EPS of $3.00, Company A decides to reduce its dividend rate to 20%, and expects that the growth rate will increase as a result of the higher retained earnings to 5% per year: | ||||||||
| a) | What is the new projected dividend for next year? | ||||||||
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| b) | What is the new stock value? | ||||||||
| P0new = | |||||||||
| Q3. | A separate company, Company B, has a ROE of 10%. | ||||||||
| a) | What will be its estimated growth rateif it has a dividend payout ratio of 40%? | ||||||||
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| b) | If the company decreases the dividend payout ratio to 30%, what will be the new estimated growth rate? | ||||||||
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| Q4. | A separate third company, Company C, will have earnings per share of $5.00 this year. It pays a dividend equal to 40% of net income. It is expecting that income and dividends will grow by 25% next year and 20% the year after. In subsequent years, it is expecting to return to its historical constant growth rate of 5% per year. The relevant discount rate for this company is 10%. | ||||||||
| a) | What are the projected level of dividends for years 1, 2 and 3. | ||||||||
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| D2 = | |||||||||
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| b) | What is the value of the stock in year 2? | ||||||||
| P2 = | |||||||||
| c) | What is the value of the stock today? [assume dividend D0 has been paid out]. | ||||||||
| P0 = | |||||||||
| Q5. | Company D has EBITDA of $500 million. It has outstanding debt of $600 million. Its industry has typically displayed a Value/EBITDA ratio of between 8x and 10x EBITDA. If Company D has 100 million shares outstanding, what is the estimate of the per share value of this company? | ||||||||
| Low-end | High-end | ||||||||
| Value/EBITDA ratio: | 8 | 10 | |||||||
| Per Share Value: | |||||||||
| Average Per Share Value = |
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Solution: Financial Concepts Week5 Exercise9