Reference no: EM132545889
After extensive medical and marketing research, Pill, Inc., believes it can penetrate the pain reliever market. It is considering two alternative products. The first is a medication for headache pain. The second is a pill for headache and arthritis pain. Both products would be introduced at a price of $8.65 per package in real terms. The headache-only medication is projected to sell 3 million packages a year, whereas the headache and arthritis remedy would sell 4.3 million packages a year. Cash costs of production in the first year are expected to be $4.55 per package in real terms for the headache-only brand. Production costs are expected to be $5.10 in real terms for the headache and arthritis pill. All prices and costs are expected to rise at the general inflation rate of 3 percent.
Either product requires further investment. The headache-only pill could be produced using equipment costing $17 million. That equipment would last three years and have no resale value. The machinery required to produce the broader remedy would cost $28 million and last three years. The firm expects that equipment to have a $800,000 resale value (in real terms) at the end of Year 3.
The firm uses straight-line depreciation and has a tax rate of 24 percent. The appropriate real discount rate is 9 percent.
a. Calculate the NPV for headache pain reliever only. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89.)
b. Calculate the NPV for headache and arthritis pain reliever. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89.)
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