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1.Dividend Policy. Here are several assertions about typical corporate
dividend policies. Which
of them are true? Write out a corrected version of any false statements.
a. Most companies set a target dividend payout ratio.
b. They set each year?s dividend equal to the target payout ratio
times that year?s earnings.
c. Managers and investors seem more concerned with dividend changes
than dividend levels.
d. Managers often increase dividends temporarily when earnings are
unexpectedly high for a
year or two.
2.Dividend Policy. For each of the following four groups of companies,
state whether you would
expect them to distribute a relatively high or low proportion of
current earnings and whether
you would expect them to have a relatively high or low price-earnings ratio.
a. High-risk companies.
b. Companies that have recently experienced a temporary decline in profits.
c. Companies that expect to experience a decline in profits.
d. ?Growth? companies with valuable future investment opportunities.
3.As the director of capital budgeting for Denver Corporation, you are
evaluating two mutually exclusive projects with the following net cash
flows:
Year Project X Project Z
0 -$100,000 -$100,000
1 50,000 10,000
2 40,000 30,000
3 30,000 40,000
4 10,000 60,000
If Denver's required rate of return is 12 percent, which would you choose?
4.The Seattle Corporation has a capital structure of;
Type Percent of Structure Required Return
Debt 30% 8%
Preferred Stock 10% 12%
Common Stock 60% 15%
What is the WACC for Seattle Corporation?
5.The Comfort Company makes lawn chairs. There fixed costs are
$80,000. The chairs cost $45.00 to produce. They sell for $ 55.00.
a. They would like to know how many chairs they need to sell to break-even.
b. They also want to know how many chairs they need to sell to clear $ 5,000.00
c. If they decrease overhead by $ 10,000 how many chairs do they need
to sell to clear $5,000.00
6.You want to issue 500,000 shares of preferred stock that will pay
$10.00 a year in perpetuity. If the market expectation is 10% how much
money would you expect the corporation to get for the public offering? |