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Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project, Project A. The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per year before tax and has additional annual costs of $600,000. The Marginal Tax rate is 35%.

  1. The firm has decided on a capital structure consisting of 30% debt and 70% new common stock. Calculate the WACC and explain how it is used in the capital budgeting process.
  2. Calculate the after tax cash flows for the project for each year. Explain the methods used in your calculations.
  3. If the discount rate were 6 percent calculate the NPV of the project. Is this an economically acceptable project to undertake? Why or why not?
  4. Now calculate the IRR for the project. Is this an acceptable project. Why/why not? Is there a conflict between answer and the answer to #1

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Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project, Project A. The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per year before tax and has additional annual costs of $600,000. The Marginal Tax rate is 35%.

  1. Wheel has just paid a dividend of $2.50 per share. The dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of six percent per year forever. If the stock is currently selling for $50 per share with a 10% flotation cost, what is the cost of new equity for the firm? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm?
  2. The firm is considering using debt in its capital structure. If the market rate of 5% is appropriate for debt of this kind, what is the after tax cost of debt for the company? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm?

Problem 1

All Techniques- Decision among mutually exclusive investments. Pound industries is attempting to select the best of three mutually exclusive projects. The initial investment and after tax cash inflows associated with these projects are shown in the following table

Cash flow Project A Project B Project C

Initial investment (CF) $80,000 $110,000 $110,000

Cash inflows (CF), T=1 to 5 $25,000 $37,000 $38,500

Calculate the payback period for each project

Calculate the net present value (NPV) of each project, assuming that the fimrm has a cost of capital equal to 11%

Calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) for each project

Indicate which project you would recommend

A-the payback period of project A is ___years

the payback period of project B is ___years

the payback period of project C is ___years

B-the NPV of project A is $____

the NPV of project B is $____

the NPV of project C is $____

C- The IRR of project A is _____

The IRR of project B is _____

The IRR of project C is _____

D- which project would you recommend?

Project A

Project B

Project C

Problem 2

IRR, investment life, and cash inflows Oak enterprise accepts projects earning more than the firms 15% cost of capital. Oak is currently considering a 10 year project that provides annual cash inflows of $50,000 and requires an initial investment of $328,300

Deter the IRR of the project is it acceptable

Assuming that the cash inflos continue to be $50,000 per year how many additional years would the flows have to continue to make the project acceptable (that is, to make it have an IRR of 15%?

A. the project IRR is ___%

Is the project acceptable?

Yes or no

B. assuming that the cash inflows continue to be $50,000 per year the number of additional years the flows would have to continue to make the project acceptable at the 15% discount rate is ____ additional years

C) with the given life, initial investment and cost of capital the minimum annual cash inflow that the firm should accept is $______

20. Husky Inc. is considering a capital expansion project. The initial investment of undertaking this project is $214,500. This expansion project will last for five years. The net operating cash flows from the expansion project at the end of year 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are estimated to be $50,850, $69,783, $71,332, $81,236 and $107,750 respectively.
Husky has a capital structure consisting of 60% debt and 40% equity. The after-tax cost of debt is 15% and the cost of equity is 37.50%.
Based on Husky’s weighted average cost of capital calculated, what is the NPV of undertaking this expansion project? That is, what is the NPV if the weighted average cost of capital is used as the discount rate? Shall Husky undertake the investment project? (Points : 3.7)

A. NPV=$11,124.28. Husky shall undertake the investment project since NPV>0.
B. NPV=-$19,579.80. Husky shall not undertake the investment project since NPV<0.
C. NPV=-$10,114.80. Husky shall not undertake the investment project since NPV<0.
D. NPV=$23,062.83. Husky shall undertake the investment project since NPV>0.

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