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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?

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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

SFE Inc. has 1 million shares of common stock outstanding at a book value of $40 per share. The stock trades for $50 per share. It also has $10 million in face value of debt (corporate bonds of 5 years with coupon rate 10.4%, paid semi-annually) that trades at 110% of face value. The company’s common stock has abeta of 1.2. Treasury bills yield 2% and the market return is 10%. The corporate tax rate is 35%.

a) What is the total market value of equity?

b) What is the total market value of debt?

c) What is its ratio of debt to total firm value in the market-value driven capital structure?

d) What is the (annualized) before-tax cost of debt?

e) What is the after-tax cost of debt?

f) What’s the cost of equity?

g) What’s the after-tax WACC?

h) SFE is considering a project that costs $500,000 today. The project returns$150,000 each year, for the next five years. What is the NPV of the project?

A firm is considering a project that will generate perpetual after-tax cash flows of $24,500 per year beginning next year. The project has the same risk as the firm’s overall operations and must be financed externally. Equity flotation costs 12 percent and debt issues cost 3 percent on an after-tax basis. The firm’s D/E ratio is 0.5. What is the most the firm can pay for the project and still earn its required return?

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