Financial manegment

1.

Nonconstant Growth.

Lake Osborne, Inc., is a young start-up company. No dividends will be paid on the stock over the next nine years, because the firm needs to plow back its earnings to fuel growth. The company will then pay a dividend of $20 per share 10 years from today and will increase the dividend by 5 percent per year thereafter. If the required return on this stock is 15 percent, what is the current share price?

Dividend for year 1 ~ 9 = ??

Dividend for year 10 = ??

Dividend growth rate since year 10 = ??

Discount rate = ??

Price at the end of year 9 = p9 = ??

Current price = P0 = ??

2.

LED lights bulbs typically cost $3.50, have a life of 9 years, and use about $1.60 of electricity a year.

Conventional light bulbs are cheaper to buy, for they cost only $.50.

On the other hand, they last only about a year and use about $6.60 of energy.

If the real discount rate is 5%, what is the cost of the two products over 9 years? Which one is better cost-wise?

Cash flow

1) LED lights

Cash flow from LED lights

CF0, CF1, … CF9 = ??

Present value = ??

2) Conventional lights

Cash flow till year 9

CF0, CF1, … CF9 = ??

Present value = ??

3.

Finding the WACC.

Given the following information for Delray Food Co., find the WACC. Assume the company’s tax rate is 35 percent.

• Debt:
  • $1,000 par value
  • 9,500 of 7 percent coupon bonds outstanding,
  • 25 years to maturity
  • selling for 118 percent of par;
  • the bonds make semiannual payments.
• Common stock:
  • 200,000 shares outstanding,
  • selling for $87 per share;
  • beta is 1.25.
  • 7 percent market risk premium and 3.1 percent risk-free rate.
• Preferred stock:
  • 15,000 shares of 4.8 percent preferred stock outstanding,
  • currently selling for $100 per share.

  Please fill in all the blacks in this box for total

tax rate	??
					after-tax cost * wgt
	mkt value	weight %	before tax cost	after-tax cost	cost components
Debt	?	?	?	?	?
Stock	?	?	?	?	?
Preferred	?	?	?	?	?
Total value	?
WACC	?