2. Suppose you have been hired as a financial consultant to Defense Electronics,

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Suppose you have been hired as a financial consultant to Defense Electronics, Inc. (DEI), a large, publicly traded firm that is the market share leader in radar detection systems (RDSs). The company is looking at setting up a manufacturing plant overseas to produce a new line of RDSs. This will be a five-year project. The company bought some land three years ago for $7 million in anticipation of using it as a toxic dump site for waste chemicals, but it built a piping system to safely discard the chemicals instead. If the land were sold today, the net proceeds would be $7.68 million after taxes. In five years, the land will be worth $7.98 million after taxes. The company wants to build its new manufacturing plant on this land; the plant will cost $13.32 million to build. The following market data on DEI’s securities are current:

45,800 7.1 percent coupon bonds outstanding, 19 years to maturity, selling for 94.2 percent of par; the bonds have a $1,000 par value each and make semiannual payments.

DEI’s tax rate is 38 percent. The project requires $865,000 in initial net working capital investment to get operational.

Calculate the project’s Time 0 cash flow, taking into account all side effects. Assume that any NWC raised does not require floatation costs. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars (e.g., 1,234,567).)

The new RDS project is somewhat riskier than a typical project for DEI, primarily because the plant is being located overseas. Management has told you to use an adjustment factor of +1 percent to account for this increased riskiness. Calculate the appropriate discount rate to use when evaluating DEI’s project. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).)

The manufacturing plant has an eight-year tax life, and DEI uses straightline depreciation. At the end of the project (i.e., the end of year 5), the plant can be scrapped for $1.58 million. What is the aftertax salvage value of this manufacturing plant? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars (e.g., 1,234,567).)

The company will incur $2,380,000 in annual fixed costs. The plan is to manufacture 13,800 RDSs per year and sell them at $11,200 per machine; the variable production costs are $10,400 per RDS. What is the annual operating cash flow, OCF, from this project? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars (e.g., 1,234,567).)

Calculate the net present value. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).)

Calculate the internal rate of return. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).)

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The $7 million cost of the land 3 years ago is a sunk cost and irrelevant; the $7.68

million appraised value of the land is an opportunity cost and is relevant. The

relevant market value capitalization weights are:

MVD = 45800($1,000)(0.942) = $43,143600

MVE = 758,000($94.80) = $71858,400

MVP = 35800($92.80) = $3322240

The total market value of the company is:

V = $43143600+ $71858,400+ $3322240 = $118324240

Next we need to find the cost of funds. We have the information available to calculate the cost of equity using the CAPM, so:

RE = 5.35% + 1.28(7.15%) = 14.52%

The cost of debt is the YTM of the company’s outstanding bonds, so:

P0 = $942 = $35.5(PVIFAR%,38) + $1,000(PVIFR%,38)

R = 3.26%

YTM = 3.26% × 2 = 6.52%

And the aftertax cost of debt is:

RD = (1 – .38)(.0652) = 4.0424 %

The cost of preferred stock is:

RP = $6.35/$92.80 = .0684 or 6.84%

Requirement 1:

The initial cost to the company will be the opportunity cost of the land, the cost of the plant, and the net working capital cash flow, so:

CF0 = –$7680,000 – 13320,000 – 865,000 = –$21,865,000

Requirement 2:To find the required return on this project, we first need to calculate the WACC for the company. The company’s WACC is:

The company wants to use the subjective approach to this project because it is located overseas. The adjustment factor is 1 percent, so the required return on this project is:

Project required return = .10484 + .01 = .11484

Requirement 3:

The annual depreciation for the equipment will be:

$13320,000/8 = $1,665,000

So, the book value of the equipment at the end of five years will be:

BV5 = $13320,000 – 5($1,665,000) = $4995,000

So, the aftertax salvage value will be:

Aftertax salvage value = $1580,000 + .38($4995,000 – 1580,000) = $2877700

Requirement4:

Using the tax shield approach, the OCF for this project is:

OCF = [(P – v)Q – FC](1 – t) + tCD

OCF = [($11200 – 10,400)(13800) – 2380,000](1 – .38) + .38($13320000M/8)

=$5369200+632700

=$6001900

Requirement 5: (a)

Answer:5 (b) IRR

Particulars Market value Weight Cost of capital WACC Debt 43143600 0.364621822 4.04% 0.014739 Equity 71858400 0.607300753 14.52% 0.08818 Preference share 3322240 0.028077425 6.84% 0.00192 Total 118324240 1 0.10484

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