Debt policy at UST inc. Case To: UST Board of Directors From: UST Financial analysis team Date: 18 January 2011 Subject: Future debt policy at UST and recapitalization option 1. Analysis of UST business current and future environment UST operates in the smokeless Tobacco industry‚ a market with 2 B$ of revenues‚ which grew at a CAGR of 3.7% over the past 17 years‚ but more recently experienced a decrease in growth rate‚ dropping to 2.9% in 1997 and 1.2% in 1998. In this market‚ UST
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Net Present Value of Mercury Athletic Enterprise The results of my financial analysis based on the Free Cash Flow Method considering the base case of financial projections and assumptions for Mercury Athletic Footwear collated and developed by John Liedtke indicate that that the project to acquire Mercury Althletic has a positive net present value at $243‚025 (in thousands) [ given by PV(FCF)=86‚681+ PV (Terminal Value) =156‚343] which is also greater than the recommended acquisition price of $186
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for Sears? For Wal-Mart? Week 2: Valuing Rajat Bhatia’s Business Plan 1. Estimate (i) the current market value of the firm’s debt‚ (ii) the current market value of the firm using the free cash flow to equity‚ and (iii) the current market value of the firm using the free cash flow to the firm. Week 3: Deutsche Brauerei 1. What accounts for Deutsche Brauerei’s rapid growth in recent years? Specifically‚ what policy choices account for this success? 2. What is
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account the timing of cash flows and the IRR does not. For example if you took 2 projects that required the same initial outlay and had the same cash inflows for the same period of time but one project was deferred for one year‚ using the NPV we would have different values but the IRR would give us the same. The NPV approach takes into account the scale of the project and the IRR does not. For example The NPV approach can include multiple positive and negative cash flows in its calculations whereas
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is $144.5 million‚ for the PIERS class $17.0 Mn and the common equity is $8.5 Mn. See Exhibit 1 in the Appendix for additional details. #2: Adding the value of the Six Flag’s Short Term and Long Term debt to its market cap‚ and then deducting the cash at hand‚ we are able to observe an Enterprise Value of $2.7 Bn in 2006 and $2.4 Bn in 2007. This is higher than the 2009 implied value of $1.7 Bn. Similarly‚ the market cap of Six flags is much
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AND SYMBOLS II 1. Introduction 1 2. The conservatism principle and the asymmetric timeliness of earnings – a summary 2 2.1. The author’s motivation 2 2.2. The asymmetric sensitivity of earnings to returns 2 2.3. Earnings-return association versus cash flow-return association 5 2.4. The asymmetric persistence of earnings changes conditional on news 7 2.5. Conservatism and the asymmetric effect on the earnings response coeffcients 9 2.6 Further testing 11 3. International differences in the effects of
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Case 20: Diamond Chemicals plc (A) --PT07 Group 10 INTRODUCTION: Diamond Chemicals is a large worldwide chemicals producer with two factories in Liverpool England and Rotterdam Holland. Both of their plants were built in 1967 with annual output of 250‚000 metric tons polypropylene. Compare with low-cost producer‚ the production cost per ton is 1.09 which is a little bit high than competitors (see Exhibition 1). With the decline EPS from £60 in 1999 to £30 in 2000 and worldwide economic slowdown
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etc. The case picks up with Shamrock trying to sort out what must change and what can remain the same. These dilemmas are compounded by the strong corporate culture‚ and cash flow concerns. Moreover‚ Cyberplay is contemplating whether it should take its training online‚ and if it does‚ what further changes would be required. The cash burn rate was about $250‚000 per month and the company ’s capabilities no longer seemed to match its strategy. Statement of Problem Cyberplay has incurred significant
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MBA- SEMESTER-II ASSIGNMENT – MB0045 Name : Registration No : Learning Center : Learning Center Code : Course : MBA Subject : FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Semester : Second Module No : MB0045 Date of Submission : 30.01.2013 Marks Awarded : Directorate of Distance Education Signature of Sikkim Manipal University Signature of Evaluator II-Floor‚ Syndicate House Center Cordinator
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useful in order to make this kind of decision because it uses the concept of future cash value to evaluate whether the investment is worth‚ however the NPV is sometimes difficult to calculate because it is not always easy to estimate future cash flow. Considering the assumption I made in the first part of the spread sheet‚ the thin slab project doesn’t appear to be a wise investment for Nucor because the future cash flows at the present value are less than the initial cost of the investment. Comparing
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