FIN303
Exam-type questions
For Final exam
Chapter 9
1. Stock A has a required return of 10
percent. Its dividend is expected to
grow at a constant rate of 7 percent per year.
Stock B has a required return of 12 percent. Its dividend is expected to grow at a
constant rate of 9 percent per year.
Stock A has a price of $25 per share, while Stock B has a price of $40
per share. Which of the following
statements is most correct?
a. The two
stocks have the same dividend yield.
b. If the
stock market were efficient, these two stocks should have the same price.
c. If the
stock market were efficient, these two stocks should have the same expected
return.
d. Statements
a and c are correct.
2. If D1
= $2.00, g (which is constant) = 6%, and P0 = $40, what is the
stockâs expected capital gains yield for the coming year?
a. 5.2%
b. 5.4%
c. 5.6%
d. 6.0%
3. The
Lashgari Company is expected to paya dividend of $1 per share at the
end of the year, and that dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5%
per year in the future. The company’s
beta is 1.2, the market risk premium is 5%, and the risk-free rate is 3%. What is the company’s current stock price?
a. $15.00
b. $20.00
c. $25.00
d. $30.00
4. McKenna
Motors is expected to pay a $1.00 per-share dividend at the end of the year (D1
= $1.00). The stock sells for $20 per
share and its required rate of return is 11 percent. The dividend is expected to grow at a
constant rate, g, forever. What is the
growth rate, g, for this stock?
a. 5%
b. 6%
c. 7%
d. 8%
5. The
last dividend paid by Klein Company was $1.00.
Kleinâs growth rate is expected to be a constant 5 percent for 2 years,
after which dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 10 percent
forever. Kleinâs required rate of return
on equity (ks) is 12 percent.
What is the current price of Kleinâs common stock?
a. $21.00
b. $33.33
c. $42.25
d. $50.16
6. You
must estimate the intrinsic value of Gallovits Technologiesâ stock. Gallovitsâs end-of-year free cash flow (FCF)
is expected to be $25 million, and it is expected to grow at a constant rate of
8.5% a year thereafter. The companyâs
WACC is 11%. Gallovits has $200 million
of long-term debt plus preferred stock, and there are 30 million shares of
common stock outstanding. What is
Gallovits’ estimated intrinsic value per share of common stock?
a. $22.67
b. $24.00
c. $25.33
d. $26.67
Chapter 10
7. Campbell Co. is trying to
estimate its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Which of the following statements is most
correct?
a. The
after-tax cost of debt is generally cheaper than the after-tax cost of equity.
b. Since
retained earnings are readily available, the cost of retained earnings is
generally lower than the cost of debt.
c. The
after-tax cost of debt is generally more expensive than the before-tax cost of
debt.
d. Statements
a and c are correct.
8. Wyden
Brothers has no retained earnings. The
company uses the CAPM to calculate the cost of equity capital. The companyâs capital structure consists of
common stock, preferred stock, and debt.
Which of the following events will reduce the companyâs WACC?
a. A
reduction in the market risk premium.
b. An
increase in the flotation costs associated with issuing new common stock.
c. An
increase in the companyâs beta.
d. An
increase in expected inflation.
9. Dick
Boe Enterprises, an all-equity firm, has a corporÂate beta coefficient of
1.5. The financial manager is evaluating
a projÂect with an expected return of 21 percent, before any risk
adjustment. The risk-free rate is 10
percent, and the required rate of return on the market is 16 percent. The project being evaluated is riskÂier than
Boeâs average project, in terms of both beta risk and total risk. Which of the following statements is most
correct?
a. The
project should be accepted since its expected return (before risk adjustment)
is greater than its required return.
b. The
project should be rejected since its expected return (before risk adjustment)
is less than its reÂquired return.
c. The
accept/reject decision depends on the risk-adjustment policy of the firm. If the firmâs policy were to reduce a
riskier-than-average projectâs expected return by 1 percentage point, then the
project should be accepted.
d. Riskier-than-average
projects should have their expected returns increased to reflect their added
riskiness. Clearly, this would make the
project acceptable regardless of the amount of the adjustment.
10. Conglomerate Inc.
consists of 2 divisions of equal size, and Conglomerate is 100 percent equity
financed. Division Aâs cost of equity
capital is 9.8 percent, while Division Bâs cost of equity capital is 14
percent. Conglomerateâs composite WACC
is 11.9 percent. Assume that all
Division A projects have the same risk and that all Division B projects have
the same risk. However, the projects in
Division A are not the same risk as those in Division B. Which of the following projects should
Conglomerate accept?
a.Division A project with an 11 percent return.
b. Division
B project with a 12 percent return.
c. Division
B project with a 13 percent return.
d. Statements
a and c are correct.
11. Billick Brothers is estimating its WACC. The company has collected the following
information:
·
Its capital
structure consists of 40 percent debt and 60 percent common equity.
·
The company
has 20-year bonds outstanding with a 9 percent annual coupon that are trading
at par.
·
The companyâs
tax rate is 40 percent.
·
The risk-free
rate is 5.5 percent.
·
The market
risk premium is 5 percent.
·
The stockâs
beta is 1.4.
What is the companyâs WACC?
a. 9.71%
b. 9.66%
c. 8.31%
d. 11.18%
12. Flaherty
Electric has a capital structure that consists of 70 percent equity and 30
percent debt. The companyâs long-term
bonds have a before-tax yield to maturity of 8.4 percent. The company uses the DCF approach to
determine the cost of equity. Flahertyâs
common stock currently trades at $40.5 per share. The year-end dividend (D1) is
expected to be $2.50 per share, and the dividend is expected to grow forever at
a constant rate of 7 percent a year. The
company estimates that it will have to issue new common stock to help fund this
yearâs projects. The companyâs tax rate
is 40 percent. What is the companyâs
weighted average cost of capital, WACC?
13. Hamilton
Companyâs 8 percent coupon rate, quarterly payment, $1,000 par value bond,
which matures in 20 years, currently sells at a price of $686.86. The companyâs tax rate is 40 percent. What is the firmâs component cost of debt for
purposes of calculating the WACC?
a. 3.05%
b. 7.32%
c. 7.36%
d. 12.20%
14. For a
typical firm, which of the following is correct? All rates are after taxes, and assume the
firm operates at its target capital structure. Note. d is for debt; e is for
equity
a. rd
> re > WACC.
b. re
> rd > WACC.
c. WACC
> re > rd.
d. re
> WACC > rd.
Chapter 11
15. Which
of the following statements is most correct?
a. The NPV
method assumes that cash flows will be reinvested at the cost of capital, while
the IRR method assumes reinvestment at the IRR.
b. The NPV
method assumes that cash flows will be reinvested at the risk-free rate, while
the IRR method assumes reinvestment at the IRR.
c. The NPV
method assumes that cash flows will be reinvested at the cost of capital, while
the IRR method assumes reinvestment at the risk-free rate.
d. The NPV
method does not consider the inflation premium.
16. A
major disadvantage of the payback period is that it
a. Is
useless as a risk indicator.
b. Ignores
cash flows beyond the payback period.
c. Does not
directly account for the time value of money.
d. Statements
b and c are correct.
17. Which
of the following statements is most correct?
a. If a
projectâs internal rate of return (IRR) exceeds the cost of capital, then the
projectâs net present value (NPV) must be positive.
b. If
Project A has a higher IRR than Project B, then Project A must also have a
higher NPV.
c. The IRR
calculation implicitly assumes that all cash flows are reinvested at a rate of
return equal to the cost of capital.
d. Statements
a and c are correct.
18. The
Seattle Corporation has been presented with an investment opportunity that will
yield cash flows of $30,000 per year in Years 1 through 4, $35,000 per year in
Years 5 through 9, and $40,000 in Year 10.
This investment will cost the firm $150,000 today, and the firmâs cost
of capital is 10 percent. Assume cash
flows occur evenly during the year, 1/365th each day. What is the payback period for this
investment?
a. 5.23
years
b. 4.86
years
c. 4.00
years
d. 6.12
years
19. Coughlin Motors
is considering a project with the following expected cash flows:
Project
Year Cash Flow
0 -$700 million
1 200 million
2 370 million
3 225 million
4 700 million
The projectâs WACC is 10 percent.
What is the projectâs discounted payback?
a. 3.15
years
b. 4.09
years
c. 1.62 years
d. 3.09
years
20. As
the director of capital budgeting for Denver Corporation, you are evaluating
two mutually exclusive projects with the following net cash flows:
Project X
Project Z
Year Cash Flow Cash Flow
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 Denverâs
cost of capital is 15 percent, which project would you choose?
a. Neither
project.
b. Project
X, since it has the higher IRR.
c. Project
Z, since it has the higher NPV.
d. Project
X, since it has the higher NPV.
21. Your
company is choosing between the following non-repeatable, equally risky,
mutually exclusive projects with the cash flows shown below. Your cost of
capital is 10 percent. How much value
will your firm sacrifice if it selects the project with the higher IRR?
22. Assume
a project has normal cash flows. All
else equal, which of the following statements is CORRECT?
a. The
projectâs IRR increases as the WACC declines.
b. The
projectâs NPV increases as the WACC declines.
c. The
projectâs MIRR is unaffected by changes in the WACC.
d. The
projectâs regular payback increases as the WACC declines.
23. Which
of the following statements is CORRECT?
a. One
defect of the IRR method is that it does not take account of cash flows over a
projectâs full life.
b. One
defect of the IRR method is that it does not take account of the time value of
money.
c. One
defect of the IRR method is that it does consider the time value of money.
d. One
defect of the IRR method is that it assumes that the cash flows to be received
from a project can be reinvested at the IRR itself, and that assumption is
often not valid.
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