FIN4012S CORPORATE FINANCE MANAGEMENT
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FIN4012S
CORPORATE FINANCE MANAGEMENT
Section A (Compulsory question)
Question 1
AXE Inc., a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, supplies avionics to the aviation industry. The firm’s earnings have been growing steadily at a rate consistent with the S&P 500 rate of growth in the year 2020. Refer to this weblink:
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-outlook-sp500-
rise-profit-growth-fundamentals-recovery-jpmorgan-2020-9-1029587185
The firm reinvests 20% of its earnings and is expected to pay a dividend of 7 cents per share.
The government has just engaged AXE to supply safety test kits for its military airplanes for the foreseeable future. To fund the building of more facilities, AXE will cut dividends by 85.7% and reinvest 90% of its earnings. The project will take three years to complete. Thereafter, the firm will revert to its previous payout ratio. The fourth year’s dividends are projected from the third year’s dividends at the appropriate growth rate. The directors of AXE will announce the good news after paying the 7-cent dividend. The firm’s cost of equity is 9
percent.
Required:
i) Calculate the current share price (before the announcement).
(8 marks)
ii) Calculate the share price after the announcement. Maintain your
working in cents at 2 decimal places. Comment on your results. (12 marks)
iii) The answers in part (i) and part (ii) above are dependent on which
form of market efficiency? Discuss the conditions necessary for its validity for AXE Inc. Should the firm accept the government contract? (15 marks)
iv) A number of publicly traded firms pay no dividends, yet investors are willing to buy shares in these firms. Critically discuss if this violates the basic principle of share valuation.
(15 marks)
(Total 50 marks)
End of Section A
Section B (Answer any one question)
Question 2A
Companies P and Q would like to each invest $10 million for 3 years. Company P invests in a fixed-return asset and Company Q invests in a variable-rate asset. The companies have been offered the following assets and their respective returns per annum:
|
Fixed Rate |
Variable Rate |
Company P |
Asset 1: 5.7% |
Asset 2: LIBOR + 1.3% |
Company Q |
Asset 3: 6.9% |
Asset 4: LIBOR + 1% |
Required:
Design an interest rate swap between P and Q where a bank, acting as an intermediary, takes a total spread of 0.2% per annum for the swap.
Find the total apparent benefit per annum (in dollars) from the swap.
(10 marks)
The bank’s spread is symmetrical on both sides of the trade. After the bank’s spread, P enjoys 2/7 of the swap’s gains and Q enjoys the balance. Find the apparent benefit per annum (in dollars) to each party in the swap.
(10 marks) Derive the net investment return (per annum) for P and for Q.
(8 marks)
Discuss the motivations not to default on a swap.
(10 marks)
(Sub-total = 38 marks)
Question 2B
SuperCakes currently sells all of its pastries cash on delivery but believes it can increase sales by offering its customers two weeks of free credit. Unit sales are
expected to increase from 100 boxes to 130 boxes per week, the price per box is $30, and the cost per box is $15. SuperCakes pays interest at 0.5 percent per week (simple interest).
Assuming all customers will pay their bills, should the firm offer the credit? (12 marks)
(Total 50 marks)
Question 3
METRO Inc. would like to make an offer to acquire all the shares of PONTIAK Inc. The two alternatives are a cash offer ($19 per share) or a share exchange
(1 newly-issued METRO Inc. share for every 5 PONTIAK shares).
The following data applies as at 19 October 2020:
|
METRO |
PONTIAK |
Combined |
Share price |
$Y |
$16 |
$ X |
Number of shares (million) |
10 |
2.5 |
-- |
Revenue ($ 'million) |
150 |
24 |
177 |
Operating Expenses ($ 'million) |
116 |
20 |
140 |
Cost of funds |
12% |
12% |
12% |
Refer to this weblink on Metro Inc.’s share prices:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MTRAF/
The economic effects of the acquisition are expected to continue in the foreseeable future.
Required:
a. Compute the present value of the economic gain/loss of the merger.
(10 marks)
b. Using the cash offer, compute the gain/loss faced by PONTIAK’s and METRO Inc.’s shareholders. (10 marks)
c. Using the cash offer, compute the post-merger share price (X) on METRO Inc.’s stock. (10 marks)
d. Using the share offer, what is the final number of METRO Inc.’s issued shares and its post-merger price? (10 marks)
e. Using the share offer, compute the gain/loss faced by PONTIAK’s and
METRO Inc.’s shareholders. (10 marks)
(Total = 50 marks)
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