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Introduction
Today’s Goal
Highlight important topics to review
Work through more difficult concepts
Answer questions raised by students
No new material
No extra exam hints
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Lecture 1 Material
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II. Types of Businesses
1. Sole Proprietorship
2. Partnership
3. Corporation
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Value of Debt at time of Repayment
(repayment due = $10 million)
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Contingent Value of the
Firm's Securities ($
30
25
millions)
20
15
10
5
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Value of the Firm's Assets at the time the debt
is due ($ millions)
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Value of Equity at time of Debt Repayment
(repayment due = $10 million)
35
Contingent Value of the
Firm's Securities ($
30
25
millions)
20
15
10
5 Never Negative – Limited Liability
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Value of the Firm's Assets at the time the debt
is due ($ millions)
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Total Value of the Firm
= Debt + Equity
Contingent Value of the Firm's
35
Total Firm Value Equity
Securities ($ millions)
30
25
20
15
Debt
10
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Value of the Firm's Assets at the time the debt
is due ($ millions)
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IV. The Principal-Agent (PA) Problem
Corporations are owned by shareholders
but are run by management
There is a separation of ownership and control
Shareholders are said to be the principals
Managers are the agents of shareholders
and are are supposed to act on behalf of the
shareholders
The PA problem is that managers may not
always act in the best way on behalf of
shareholders.
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V. Self study – will be examined
Financial Institutions
Financial Markets
Money vs. Capital Markets
Primary vs. Secondary Markets
Listing
Foreign Exchange
Trends in Finance
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Lecture 2 Material
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Arbitrage Defined
Arbitrage – the ability to earn a risk-free
profit from a zero net investment.
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III. Two-period model
Consider a simple model where an
individual lives for 2 periods, has an
income endowment, and has
preferences about when to consume.
Endowment (or given income) is
$40,000 now and $60,000 next year
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Two-period model: no market
Without the ability to
borrow or lend using
Thousands
$120
Income
financial markets, the
Consumption t+1
$100 Endowment
individual is restricted to
$80
just consuming his/her
$60
endowment as it is earned:
$40
i.e., consume $40,000 now and consume
$20 $60,000 in one year.
$0
$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120
Thousands
Consumption Today
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Intertemporal Consumption
Opportunity Set
Assume a market for borrowing
or lending exists and the interest
Thousands
$120
rate is 10%. This opens up a large
Consumption t+1
$100
set of consumption patterns
$80
across the two periods.
$60
$40
$20
$0
$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120
Thousands
Consumption Today
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Intertemporal Consumption
Opportunity Set
1. What is the slope of the consumption
opportunity set?
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Intertemporal Consumption
Opportunity Set
Maximum @ t+1 = ?
Thousands
$120
Consumption t+1
$100
$80
Slope =
$60
$0
$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120
Thousands
Consumption Today
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Intertemporal Consumption
Opportunity Set
A person’s preferences will
impact where on the
Thousands
$120
consumption opportunity set
Consumption t+1
$100
Patient they will choose to be.
$80
$60
$40
$20 Hungry
$0
$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120
Thousands
Consumption Today
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An increase in interest rates
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Real Investment Opportunities –
Example 1
Consider an investment opportunity that costs
$35,000 this year and provides a certain
cash flow of $36,000 next year.
Time 0 1
$100
Original
$80 Endowment
$60
$40
$20
$0
$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120
Thousands
Consumption Today
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Real Investment Opportunities –
Example 1
Should the individual take the real investment opportunity?
No! It leads to dominated consumption opportunities.
Thousands
$120
Consumption Opportunity Set after real investment is taken
Consumption t+1
$100
$40
$20
$0
$0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120
Thousands
Consumption Today
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VI. The Separation Theorem
The separation theorem in financial markets says that
all investors will want to accept or reject the same
investment projects by using the NPV rule, regardless
of their personal preferences.
Separation between consumption preferences and
real investment decisions
Logistically, separating investment decision making
from the shareholders is a basic requirement for the
efficient operation of the modern corporation.
Managers don’t need to worry about individual
investor consumption preferences – just be
concerned about maximizing their wealth.
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Lecture 3 Material
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PV of a Growing Annuity
C1 Cn 1 1 Subtract off the PV
PV0 of the latter part of
r g r g (1 r ) n the growing
perpetuity
PV of the
C1 C1 (1 g ) n
1 whole
PV0 growing
rg rg (1 r ) n
perpetuity
setting g = 0. C
FVn (1 r) n 1
r
We can use the PMT button
on the financial calculator for
the annuity cash flows, C
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IV. Some final warnings
Even though the time value calculations
look easy there are many potential
pitfalls you may experience
Be careful of the following:
PV0 of annuities or perpetuities that do not begin
in period 1; remember the PV formulas given
always discount to exactly one period before the
first cash flow.
If the cash flows begin at period t, then you
must divide the PV from our formula by (1+r)t-1
to get PV0.
Note: this works even if t is a fraction.
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Be careful of annuity payments
Count the number of payments in an annuity. If
the first payment is in period 1 and the last is in
period 2, there are obviously 2 payments. How
many payments are there if the 1st payment is
in period 12 and the last payment is in period 21
(answer is 10 – use your fingers). How about if
the 1st payment is now (period 0) and the last
payment is in period 15 (answer is 16
payments).
If the first cash flow is at period t and the last
cash flow is at period T, then there are T-t+1
cash flows in the annuity.
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Be careful of wording
A cash flow occurs at the
0 1 2 3 4
end of the third period.
A cash flow occurs at
time period three.
A cash flow occurs at the
beginning of the fourth C
period.
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Lecture 4&5 Material
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Annuities and perpetuities
The annuity and perpetuity formulae require the rate
used to be an effective rate and, in particular, the
effective rate must be quoted over the same time
period as the time between cash flows. In effect:
If cash flows are yearly, use an effective rate per
year
If cash flows are monthly, use an effective rate per
month
If cash flows are every 14 days, use an effective rate
per 14 days
If cash flows are daily, use an effective rate per day
If cash flows are every 5 years, use an effective rate
per 5 years.
Etc.
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Step 1: finding the implied effective rate
In words, step 1 can be described as follows:
Take both the quoted rate and its quotation
period and divide by the compounding
frequency to get the implied effective rate
and the implied effective rate’s quotation
period.
The quoted rate of 60% per year with monthly
compounding is compounded 12 times per the
quotation period of one year. Thus the implied
effective rate is 60% ÷ 12 = 5% and this implied
effective rate is over a period of one year ÷ 12 = one
month.
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Step 2: Converting to the desired
effective rate
Example: if you are doing loan
calculations with quarterly payments,
then the annuity formula requires an
effective rate per quarter.
Once we have done step 1, if our
implied effective rate is not our
desired effective rate, then we need
to convert to our desired effective
rate.
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Step 2: continued
Effective to effective conversion
In the previous example, 5% per month is equivalent to
15.7625% per 3 months (or quarter year). This result is due to
the fact that (1+.05)3=1.157625
As a formula this can be represented as
Ld Ld
(1 r ) (1 r ) r (1 r ) 1
Lg Lg
g d or d g
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Step 3: finding the final quoted rate
In words, step 3 can be described as follows:
Take both the implied effective rate and its
quotation period and multiply by the
compounding frequency of the desired final
quoted rate. This results in the desired final
quoted rate and its quotation period.
In our example, the desired quoted rate is a rate
per year compounded quarterly. Therefore the
compounding frequency is 4. We multiply
15.7625% per quarter by 4 to get 63.05% per
year compounded quarterly.
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Continuous Compounding – self
study (continued)
Using the previous formula and mathematical limits …
As m , 1 reffective e quo ted
r
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Lecture 6 Material
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Bond valuation and yields
A level coupon bond pays constant semiannual coupons
over the bond’s life plus a face value payment when the
bond matures.
The bond below has a 20 year maturity, $1,000 face
value and a coupon rate of 9% (9% of face value is
paid as coupons per year).
20
Year 0 0.5 1 1.5 ... 19.5
(Maturity
Date)
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Definitions – Spot Rates
The n-period current spot rate of interest denoted rn
is the current interest rate (fixed today) for a loan
(where the cash is borrowed now) to be repaid in n
periods. Note: all spot rates are expressed in the
form of an effective interest rate per year. In the
example above, r1, r2, r3, r4, and r5, in the previous
slide, are all current spot rates of interest.
Spot rates are only determined from the prices of
zero-coupon bonds and are thus applicable for
discounting cash flows that occur in a single time
period. This differs from the more broad concept of
yield to maturity that is, in effect, an average rate
used to discount all the cash flows of a level coupon
bond.
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Definitions – Forward Rates
(continued)
To calculate a forward rate, the
following equation is useful:
1 + fn = (1+rn)n / (1+rn-1)n-1
where fn is the one period forward rate
for a loan repaid in period n
(i.e., borrowed in period n-1 and repaid in period n)
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Forward Rates – Self Study
The t-period forward rate for a loan
repaid in period n is denoted n-tfn
E.g., 2f5 is the 3-period forward rate for a loan
repaid in period 5 (and borrowed in period 2)
The following formula is useful for
calculating t-period forward rates:
1+n-tfn = [(1+rn)n / (1+rn-t)n-t]1/t
Given the data presented before, determine 1f3
and 2f5
Results: 1f3=10.2577945%; 2f5=10.4622321%
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Definitions – Future Spot Rates
Current spot rates are observable today and can be
contracted today.
A future spot rate will be the rate for a loan obtained
in the future and repaid in a later period. Unlike
forward rates, future spot rates will not be fixed (or
contracted) until the future time period when the loan
begins (forward rates can be locked in today).
Thus we do not currently know what will happen to
future spot rates of interest. However, if we
understand the theories of the term structure, we can
make informed predictions or expectations about
future spot rates.
We denote our current expectation of the future spot
rate as follows: E[n-trn] is the expected future spot
rate of interest for a loan repaid in period n and
borrowed in period n-t.
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Term Structure Theories:
Pure-Expectations Hypothesis
The Pure-Expectations Hypothesis states
that expected future spot rates of interest
are equal to the forward rates that can be
calculated today (from observed spot
rates).
In other words, the forward rates are
unbiased predictors for making
expectations of future spot rates.
What do our previous forward rate
calculations tell us if we believe in the Pure-
Expectations Hypothesis?
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Liquidity-Preference Hypothesis
Empirical evidence seems to suggest that
investors have relatively short time
horizons for bond investments. Thus, since
they are risk averse, they will require a
premium to invest in longer term bonds.
The Liquidity-Preference Hypothesis states
that longer term loans have a liquidity
premium built into their interest rates and
thus calculated forward rates will
incorporate the liquidity premium and will
overstate the expected future one-period
spot rates.
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Liquidity-Preference Hypothesis
Reconsider investors’ expectations for inflation and
future spot rates. Suppose over the next year,
investors require 4% for a one year loan and expect
to require 6% for a one year loan (starting one year
from now).
Under the Liquidity-Preference Hypothesis, the current
2-year spot rate will be defined as follows:
(1+r2)2=(1+r1)(1+E[1r2]) + LP2
where LP2 = liquidity premium: assumed to be
0.25% for a 2 year loan
(1+r2)2 = (1.04)x(1.06) + 0.0025 so r2=5.11422%
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Liquidity-Preference Hypothesis
Restated, if we don’t know E[1r2], but
we can observe r1=4% and
r2=5.11422%,
then, under the Liquidity-Preference
Hypothesis, we would have E[1r2] < f2 =
6.24038%.
From this example, f2 overstates E[1r2] by
0.24038%
If we know LP2 or the amount f2 overstates
E[1r2], then we can better estimate E[1r2].
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Projecting Future Bond Prices
Consider a three-year bond with annual coupons (paid
annually) of $100 and a face value of $1,000 paid at
maturity. Spot rates are observed as follows: r1=9%,
r2=10%, r3=11%
What is the current price of the bond?
What is its yield to maturity (as an effective annual
rate)?
What is the expected price of the bond in 2 years?
under the Pure-Expectations Hypothesis
under the Liquidity-Preference Hypothesis
assume f3 overstates E[2r3] by 0.5%
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Lecture 8&9 Material
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Conventional Cash Flows or Unconventional
Lending/Investing Type Project Cash Flows or
Borrowing Type
IRR Problem Cases: Borrowing vs. Lending
Project
Consider the
following two Project A Project B
Year Cash Cash
projects.
Flows Flows
Evaluate with IRR
given a hurdle rate
of 20%
For borrowing 0 -$10,000 +$10,000
projects, the IRR
rule must be
reversed: accept the
project if the 1 +$15,000 -$15,000
IRR≤hurdle rate
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The non-existent or multiple IRR problem
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NPV Profile – where are the IRR's?
$80,000
$60,000
$40,000
Project A
$20,000
NPV
Project B
$0
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
-$20,000
-$60,000
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No or Multiple IRR Problem – What to do?
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Special situations for DCF analysis
When projects are independent and the firm has few
constraints on capital, then we check to ensure that
projects at least meet a minimum criteria – if they do,
they are accepted.
NPV≥0; IRR≥hurdle rate; PI≥1
If the firm has capital rationing, then its funds are
limited and not all independent projects may be
accepted. In this case, we seek to choose those projects
that best use the firm’s available funds. PI is especially
useful here.
Sometimes a firm will have plenty of funds to invest, but
it must choose between projects that are mutually
exclusive. This means that the acceptance of one
project precludes the acceptance of any others. In this
case, we seek to choose the one highest ranked of the
acceptable projects.
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Incremental Cash Flows: Solving
the Problem with IRR and PI
As you can see, individual IRR's and PIs are not good
for comparing between two mutually exclusive
projects.
However, we know IRR and PI are good for evaluating
whether one project is acceptable.
Therefore, consider “one project” that involves
switching from the smaller project to the larger
project. If IRR or PI indicate that this is worthwhile,
then we will know which of the two projects is better.
Incremental cash flow analysis looks at how the cash
flows change by taking a particular project instead of
another project.
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Using IRR and PI correctly when projects are
mutually exclusive and are of differing scales
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Incremental Analysis – Self Study
For self-study, Incremental
consider the Cash Cash flows
following two Cash flows of A instead
Year flows of
investments and of Project A of B
Project B
do the (i.e., A-B)
incremental IRR
and PI analysis.
The opportunity 0 -$100,000 -$50,000
cost of capital is
10%. Should
either project be
1 +$101,000 +$50,001
accepted? No,
prove it to
yourself!
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Capital Rationing
Recall: If the firm has capital rationing, then its
funds are limited and not all independent projects
may be accepted. In this case, we seek to choose
those projects that best use the firm’s available funds.
PI is especially useful here.
Note: capital rationing is a different problem than
mutually exclusive investments because if the capital
constraint is removed, then all projects can be
accepted together.
Analyze the projects on the next page with NPV, IRR,
and PI assuming the opportunity cost of capital is
10% and the firm is constrained to only invest
$50,000 now (and no constraint is expected in future
years).
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Capital Rationing – Example
(All $ numbers are in thousands)
2 $0 $0 $37.862 $0 $0
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Capital Rationing Example:
Comparison of Rankings
NPV rankings (best to worst)
A, D, C, B, E
A uses up the available capital
Overall NPV = $4,545.45
IRR rankings (best to worst)
E, D, B, A, C
E, D, B use up the available capital
Overall NPV = NPVE+D+B=$6,181.82
PI rankings (best to worst)
E, D, C, B, A
E, D, C use up the available capital
Overall NPV = NPVE+D+C=$6,381.82
The PI rankings produce the best set of investments
to accept given the capital rationing constraint.
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Capital Rationing Conclusions
PI is best for initial ranking of
independent projects under capital
rationing.
Comparing NPV’s of feasible
combinations of projects would also
work.
IRR may be useful if the capital
rationing constraint extends over
multiple periods (see project C).
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Other methods to analyze
investment projects – self study
Payback – the simplest capital budgeting
method of analysis
Know this method thoroughly.
Discounted Payback
Not Required.
Average Accounting Return (AAR)
You will not be asked to calculate it, but you
should know what it is and why it is the most
flawed of the methods we have examined.
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Lecture 10 Material
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Relevant cash flows
The main principles behind which
cash flows to include in capital
budgeting analysis are as follows:
1. Only include cash flows that change as a
result of the project being analyzed.
Include all cash flows that are impacted
by the project. This is often called an
incremental analysis – looking at how
cash flows change between not doing
the project vs. doing the project.
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Which cash flows are relevant to
the project analysis, which are not?
Examples Type of Cash Flow Is it Relevant to
the analysis? Why?
Sunk Costs
Opportunity Costs
Interest Expense
(or financing
charges)
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Conclusions on real and nominal
cash flows
It is possible to express any cash flow
as either a real amount or a nominal
amount.
Since the real and nominal amounts
are equivalent, the PV’s must be
equivalent, so remember the rule:
Discount real cash flows with real rates.
Discount nominal cash flows with
nominal rates.
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Use of real cash flows
If a project’s cash flows are expected
to grow with inflation, then it may be
more convenient to express the cash
flows as real amounts rather than
trying to predict inflation and the
nominal cash flows.
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Tax consequences and after tax cash
flows (assume a tax rate, Tc, of 40%)
Item Before-tax Before-tax After-tax
amount cash flow cash flow
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PV CCA Tax Shields
k
1
C d Tc 2 S n d Tc 1
PVCCA Tax Shields
k d 1 k k d 1 k n
C = cost of asset
D = CCA rate
Tc = Corporate tax rate
k = Discount rate for CCA tax shields
Sn = Salvage value of asset sold in period n with lost CCA
deductions beginning in period n+1
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Summary of Capital Budgeting
Items and Tax Effects
The following formula may help summarize the project’s
NPV calculation.
NPV = -initial asset cost1
+ PVSalvage Value or Expected Asset Sale Amount1
+ PVincremental cash flows caused by the project2
+ PVincremental working capital cash flows caused by the project1
– PVCapital Gains Tax3
+ PVCCA Tax Shields
Footnotes:
1. These items usually have the same before-tax amounts and
after-tax amounts. I.e., there is no tax effect. For asset
purchases/sales the tax effect is done through CCA effects.
2. These items usually have the after-tax cash flow equal to the
before tax cash flow multiplied by (1-Tc).
3. Capital gains tax is only triggered when the asset is sold for an
amount greater than its initial cost.
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Qualitative checks (continued)
Remember, a positive NPV indicates wealth is being
created. This is equivalent to the economic concept of
“positive economic profit”.
When does positive economic profit occur?
When there is not perfect competition; i.e., when
there is a competitive advantage.
Sources of competitive advantage include:
Being the first to enter a market or create a product
Low cost production
Economies of scale and scope
Preferred access to raw materials
Patents (create a barrier to entry, or preserve a low-
cost production process).
Product differentiation
Superior marketing or distribution, etc.
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Midterm 2 Question
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1. Fritz, of Fritz Plumbing, has been given the opportunity to
carry Moen fixtures for the next 10 years. He needs your
advice and has supplied the following information for your
analysis of the “Moen Project”:
Current Office Lease Costs$30,000 per yearCurrent Insurance
Costs$8,000 per yearCurrent Wages of Employees$200,000
per yearCurrent Required Inventory$60,000 Current revenue
$500,000 per year
No working capital changes are expected due to the project.
Revenues are expected to rise to $800,000 per year over the
life of the project and will fall back to their original levels
following the project. One more employee will be required for
the life of the project and the salary will be $30,000 per year.
In addition, Fritz will need to upgrade his fleet of trucks to
accommodate the new Moen fixtures. If the Moen project is
accepted he will sell his current trucks now for $100,000 and
purchase new trucks now for $500,000; the new trucks would
then be sold for $50,000 in 10 years. If the Moen project is
not accepted, he will sell his current trucks in 10 years for
scrap value of $5,000. If the project is accepted Fritz will take
out a bank loan to partially finance the truck and the bank will
require annual interest charges of $1,000 per year for the next
5 years.
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(a)Specify all relevant incremental after-tax
cash flows (and their timing) that would
occur if the Moen project is accepted.
Assume a corporate tax rate of 40%.
(Ignore CCA tax shields at this point.) Do
not do any discounting at this point.
(b)What is the present value of the
incremental CCA tax shields if the Moen
project is accepted? Assume a CCA rate of
30% and the appropriate discount rate is
equal to the risk free rate of 4%.
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Note: from Lecture 15 material
(c) Assume that the incremental cash
flows in (a) are of the same risk level as the
other assets of Fritz Plumbing. Currently, Fritz
Plumbing is financed as follows: 40% debt,
60% equity. The debt has a market price of
$1,462 per bond and pays semiannual coupons
of $60 each. The debt matures in 8 years and
has a par value of $1,000 per bond. The stock of
Fritz Plumbing has a of 1.5. The expected
return on the market is 12%, Rf is 4% and TC is
40%. What discount rate should be used for the
NPV analysis of the incremental cash flows
specified in (a).
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(d) Assume your answer to (c) is 12%,
your answer to (b) is $150,000, and you
determined the following after tax cash
flows in (a) to be as follows:
Time of cash flowAfter-tax amountYear
0 (now)-$500,000Each of Years 1-
10$250,000Year 10$50,000 What is the
NPV of the project? What is your advice to
Fritz?
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(e) Suppose that the risk of the Moen project was
much higher than the risk of the firm.
(i) Without doing any calculations, explain how
your analysis, NPV, and advice would likely change
assuming the above risk difference was due to high
unsystematic risk?
(2 points)
(ii) Without doing any calculations, explain how
your analysis, NPV, and advice would likely change
assuming the above risk difference was due to high
systematic risk?
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Lecture 12-14 Material
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Examples
What would be your portfolio beta, βp, if you had
weights in the first four stocks of 0.2, 0.15, 0.25, and
0.4 respectively.
What would be E[Rp]? Calculate it two ways.
Suppose σM=0.3 and this portfolio had ρpM=0.4, what
is the value of σp?
Is this the best portfolio for obtaining this expected
return?
What would be the total risk of a portfolio composed
of f and M that gives you the same β as the above
portfolio?
How high an expected return could you achieve while
exposing yourself to the same amount of total risk as
the above portfolio composed of the four stocks. What
is the best way to achieve it?
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Lecture 15
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Conclusions on factors that affect β
The three factors that affect an equity
β are as follows
Cyclicality of Revenues Only these two
Operating Leverage affect asset β
Financial Leverage
Note: the financial leverage does not affect
asset β, it only affects equity β.
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Lecture 16 Material
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Relationship among the Three
Different Information Sets
All information
relevant to a stock
Information set
of publicly available
information
Information
set of
past prices
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Conclusions on Informational Efficiency
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Lecture 17&18 Material
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Self Study – fill in the blank cells
Construction of a Synthetic European Put:
initial transactions at date t
Initial Transactions: fill in the empty cells
short 1 share of stock
Invest the present value of the exercise
price (E) at the risk free rate (or long
the risk-free asset)
Buy a call option on the stock with
same exercise price and same
expiration date
Initial net cash flow (will be an outflow):
where St is the stock price at time t
Cet is the price at time t of the European call option
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Synthetic European Put:
transactions on the expiration date (T)
Final cash flows given the different relevant states of nature
(which depend on whether ST is less than or greater than E):
ST < E ST ≥ E
liquidate the short stock position
(buy the stock)
liquidate the long risk-free asset
position (collect the proceeds from
the investment)
liquidate the long call option position
(discard or exercise depending upon
which is optimal)
Net cash flow at the expiration date T: E-ST 0
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Lecture 19-20 Material
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Integration of all effects on capital
structure
(1 TC ) (1 TS )
VL VU 1 B
1 TB
PVSavings of Agency Costs of Equity
PVExpected financial DistressCosts
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Lecture 21 Material
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Speculating Example
Zhou has been doing research on the price of gold and
thinks it is currently undervalued. If Zhou wants to
speculate that the price will rise, what can he do?
Give a strategy using futures contracts.
Zhou can take a long position in gold futures; if the
price rises as he expects, he will have money given
to him through the marking to market process, he
can then offset after he has made his expected
profits.
Give a strategy using options.
Zhou can go long in gold call options. If gold prices
rise, he can either sell his call option or exercise it.
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Compare Speculating Strategies
(assuming contracts on one troy ounce
of gold)
Derivative Used: Long Futures Long Call Option,
Contract @ $310 E=$310
Initial Cost $0 -$12
Net amount received (final payoff net of initial cost) given
final spot prices below:
Spot = $280 -$30 -$12
Spot = $300 -$10 -$12
Spot = $320 $10 -$2
Spot = $340 $30 $18
Spot = $360 $50 $38
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Speculating: Futures vs. Options
Net Profit Received from Speculating in
Gold Long Futures
Contract Profit
$100
$75
$50
Speculating
Profit from
$25
$0
$200
$225
$250
$275
$300
$325
$350
$375
$400
-$25
-$50
-$75
-$100 Long Call
-$125 Option Profit
Final Spot Price of Gold
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Should hedging or speculating be
done?
Speculating: If the market is informationally efficient,
then the NPV from speculating should be 0.
Hedging: Remember, expected return is related to
risk. If risk is hedged away, then expected return will
drop.
Investors won’t pay extra for a hedged firm just
because some risk is eliminated (investors can easily
diversify risk on their own).
However, if the corporate hedging reduces costs that
investors cannot reduce through personal
diversification, then hedging may add value for the
shareholders. E.g., if the expected costs of financial
distress are reduced due to hedging, there should be
more corporate value left for shareholders.
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