What is an advantage that the Du-Pont system of analysis offers over traditional ratio analysis? (Try and identify something original that your classmates have not yet mentioned.) Are there any disadvantages? Does the Du-Pont system analyze performance in each of the five main ratio groups? Explain.

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I. Fill in the blank using a number of terms listed below (@1 point). Annuity due, Asset Mgmt ratio, Call, Comparisons, Comparative ratio analysis, Corporation, Covered, Current Ratio, DSO, Du Pont Equation , Equal, Future performance, Greater, Higher, In-the-money, Less, Liquidity, Lower, Option, Ordinary Annuity, Out-of-the-money, Percentage, Perpetuity, Put, PV, Quick, Reduced, TIE, TATO, Trend Analysis, Writer 11. The payment or receipt of equal amounts, at the end of a series of equal periods, for a specified amount of time is called a(n) _______________. 12. When a loan is amortized over a five year term, the amount of interest paid is ________________ each year. 13. You have just won a $5 million lottery to be received in twenty annual equal payments of $250,000. What will happen to the present value of your winnings if the interest rate increases? It will be worth _________________. 14. The more frequent the compounding the _________________ the effective interest rate. 15. More frequent compounding results in _______________ future values and _______________ present values than less frequent compounding at the same nominal interest rate. 16. A(n) _______________ is a financial instrument that agrees to pay an equal amount of money per period into the indefinite future (i.e. forever). 17. A(n) _________________ is a contract which gives its holder the right to buy(or sell) an asset at some predetermined price within a specified period of time. 18. The seller of an option is called the option __________________. 19. An investor who writes call options against stock held in his or her portfolio is said to be selling _______________ options. 20. When the exercise price exceeds the current stock price, a call option is said to be _____________________; however, when the exercise price is less than the current price of the underlying stock, a call option is _________________. 21. An option which gives you the right to sell a stock at a specified price within some future period is called a(n) ______________ option.

Mini Case Larissa has been talking with the company's directors about the future of East Coast Yachts. To this point, the company has used outside suppliers for various key components of the company's yachts, including engines. Larissa has decided that East Coast Yachts should consider the purchase of an engine manufacturer to allow East Coast Yachts to better integrate its supply chain and get more control over engine features. After investigating several possible companies, Larissa feels that the purchase of Ragan Engines, Inc., is a possibility. She has asked Dan Ervin to analyze Ragan's value. Ragan Engines, Inc., was founded nine years ago by a brother and sister-Carrington and Genevieve Ragan-and has remained a privately owned company. The company manufactures marine engines for a variety of applications. Ragan has experienced rapid growth because of a proprietary technology that increases the fuel efficiency of its engines with very little sacrifice in performance. The company is equally owned by Carrington and Genevieve. The original agreement between the siblings gave each 150,000 shares of stock. Larissa has asked Dan to determine a value per share of Ragan stock. To accomplish this, Dan has gathered the following information about some of Ragan's competitors that are publicly traded:

Nautilus Marine Engines's negative earnings per share (EPS) were the result of an accounting write-off last year. Without the write-off, EPS for the company would have been $2.07. Last year, Ragan had an EPS of $5.35 and paid a dividend to Carrington and Genevieve of $320,000 each. The company also had a return on equity of 21 percent. Larissa tells Dan that a required return for Ragan of 18 percent is appropriate.

1. Assuming the company continues its current growth rate, what is the value per share of the company's stock?

2. Dan has examined both the company's financial statements and those of its competitors. Although Ragan currently has a technological advantage, Dan's research indicates that Ragan's competitors are investigating other methods to improve efficiency. Given this, Dan believes that Ragan's technological advantage will last only for the next five years. After that period, the company's growth will likely slow to the industry average. Additionally, Dan believes that the required return the company uses is too high. He believes the industry average required return is more appropriate. Under Dan's assumptions, what is the estimated stock price?

3. What is the industry average price-earnings ratio? What is Ragan's price-earnings ratio? Comment on any differences and explain why they may exist.

4. Assume the company's growth rate declines to the industry average after five years. What percentage of the stock's value is attributable to growth opportunities?

5. Assume the company's growth rate slows to the industry average in five years. What future equity does this imply? return on

6. Carrington and Genevieve are not sure if they should sell the company. If they do not sell the company outright to East Coast Yachts, they would like to try and increase the value of the company's stock. In this case, they want to retain control of the company and do not want to sell stock to outside investors. They also feel that the company's debt| is at a manageable level and do not want to borrow more money. What steps can they take to try to increase the price of the stock? Are there any conditions under which this strategy would not increase the stock price?

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Lewis Securities Inc. has decided to acquire a new market data and quotation system for its Richmond home office. The system receives current market prices and other information from several online data services and then either displays the information on a screen or stores it for later retrieval by the firmâs brokers. The system also permits customers to call up current quotes on terminals in the lobby.

The equipment costs $1,000,000 and, if it were purchased, Lewis could obtain a term loan for the full purchase price at a 10% interest rate. Although the equipment has a 6-year useful life, it is classified as a special-purpose computer and therefore falls into the MACRS 3-year class. If the system were purchased, a 4-year maintenance contract could be obtained at a cost of $20,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. The equipment would be sold after 4 years, and the best estimate of its residual value is $200,000. However, because real-time display system technology is changing rapidly, the actual residual value is uncertain.

As an alternative to the borrow-and-buy plan, the equipment manufacturer informed Lewis that Consolidated Leasing would be willing to write a 4-year guideline lease on the equipment, including maintenance, for payments of $260,000 at the beginning of each year. Lewisâs marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 40%. You have been asked to analyze the lease-versus-purchase decision and, in the process, to answer the following questions.

a. (1) Who are the two parties to a lease transaction?

(2) What are the five primary types of leases, and what are their characteristics?

(3) How are leases classified for tax purposes?

(4) What effect does leasing have on a firmâs balance sheet?

(5) What effect does leasing have on a firmâs capital structure?

b. (1) What is the present value cost of owning the equipment? (Hint: Set up a time line that shows the net cash flows over the period t = 0 to t = 4, and then find the PV of these net cash flows, or the PV cost of owning.)

(2) Explain the rationale for the discount rate you used to find the PV.

What is Lewisâs present value cost of leasing the equipment? (Hint: Again, construct a time line.)

What is the net advantage to leasing (NAL)? Does your analysis indicate that Lewis should buy or lease the equipment? Explain.

e. Now assume that the equipmentâs residual value could be as low as $0 or as high as $400,000, but $200,000 is the expected value. Because the residual value is riskier than the other relevant cash flows, this differential risk should be incorporated into the analysis. Describe how this could be accomplished. (No calculations are necessary, but explain how you would modify the analysis if calculations were required.) What effect would the residual valueâs increased uncertainty have on Lewisâs lease-versus-purchase decision?

The lessee compares the cost of owning the equipment with the cost of leasing it. Now put yourself in the lessorâs shoes. In a few sentences, how should you analyze the decision to write or not to write the lease?

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