Stone & Co. bonds are selling at 95, yielding 5.25%, let's assume that yields increase by 25bps, causing the price to decline to 93. How much has the price changes, in percentage? Now let's assume that yields decrease by 25 bps, causing the price to ..
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Zero growth: A communications company pays annual dividends of $8.50 with no possibility of it changing in the next several years. If the firm's stock is currently selling at $60.71, what is the required rate of return? (Round to nearest whole number..
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A company invests in capital assets for a variety of reasons. Typically obsolescence, need for additional capacity and stages of a product life cycle aide in the decision making process for capital purchases. If a company has surplus cash or assets t..
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Billy’s Exterminators, Inc., has sales of $643,000, costs of $280,000, depreciation expense of $32,000, interest expense of $26,000, a tax rate of 35 percent, and paid out $61,000 in cash dividends. What is the addition to retained earnings?
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Harper Healthcare Center is undergoing some temporary financial problems. As a result, they borrow $600,000 for nine months at 7 percent interest. How much interest will Wiggins Healthcare Center pay for the loan?
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Stock A has an expected return of 7%, a standard deviation of expected returns of 35%, a coefficient with the market of -0.3, and a beta coefficient of -0.5. Stock B has an expected return of 12%, a standard deviation of return of 10%, a 0.7 correlat..
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Kurt's Kabinets is looking at a project that will require $80,000 in fixed assets and another $20,000 in net working capital. The project is expected to produce sales of $110,000 with associated costs of $70,000. The project has a 4-year life. The co..
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Soprano’s Spaghetti Factory issued 26-year bonds two years ago at a coupon rate of 7.50 percent. If these bonds currently sell for 83.35 percent of par value, what is the YTM?
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An economic indicator is data, usually of macroeconomic scale, used by investors to interpret current or future investment possibilities and to judge the overall health of an economy. Identify and define five economic indicators.
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Refer to the table below to complete this question. "Compute the expected return given these three economic states, their likelihoods, and the potential returns Economic State Probability Return Fast Growth 0.20 40% Slow Growth 0.50 10% Recession 0.2..
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stream of cash flows. Cash flow at the end of the first year will be $9,000, and cash flows in future years are expected to grow indefinitely at an annual rate of 4%. If the discount rate for this project is 10%, what is the project NPV?
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Youngston Company (a Utah employer) wants to give a holiday bonus check of $750 to each employee. Since it wants the check amount to be $750, it will need to gross-up the amount of the bonus. Calculate the withholding taxes and the gross amount of th..
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