Exam 10: Stock Valuation: a Second Look

If you want to value a firm but do not want to explicitly forecast its dividends, the simplest model for you to use is ________.

What additional adjustments are required to find the share price, in case we are using the discounted cash flow model?

Gonzales Corporation generated free cash flow of $88 million this year. For the next two years, the company's free cash flow is expected to grow at a rate of 10%. After that time, the company's free cash flow is expected to level off to the industry long-term growth rate of 4% per year. If the weighted average cost of capital is 12% and Gonzales Corporation has cash of $100 million, debt of $300 million, and 100 million shares outstanding, what is Gonzales Corporation's expected terminal enterprise value in year 2?

Which is the best valuation technique when using comparables?

Individual investors trade conservatively, given the difficulty of finding over-valued and under-valued stocks.

Advanced Chemical Industries is awaiting the verdict from a court case over whether it is liable for the clean-up of wastes on a disused factory site. If it is liable, this will result in a reduction of its free cash flow by $11 million per year for ten years. If it is not liable, there will be no effect. On the close of trading the day before the announcement of the verdict, Advanced Chemicals was trading at $20 per share. Most investors calculate that there is a 100% chance that Advanced Chemicals will have a verdict returned against them. One investor, Jo, has performed extensive research into the outcome of the trial and estimates that there is no chance Advanced Chemicals will have a verdict returned against them. Given that Advanced Chemicals has 40 million shares outstanding and an equity cost of capital of 6% with no debt, Jo's estimate of the value of a share of Advanced Chemicals would be how much more than the market price?

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Use the table for the question(s) below. FCF Forecast ($ million) Banco Industries expect sales to grow at a rapid rate over the next 3 years, but settle to an industry growth rate of 5% in year 4. The spreadsheet above shows a simplified pro forma for Banco Industries. Banco industries has a weighted average cost of capital of 11%, $40 million in cash, $70 million in debt, and 18 million shares outstanding. If Banco Industries can reduce its operating expenses so that EBIT becomes 12% of sales, by how much will its stock price increase?

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Individual investors' tendency to trade too much based on the mistaken belief that they can pick winners and losers better than investment professionals is known as ________.

Use the table for the question(s) below. FCF Forecast ($ million) Banco Industries expect sales to grow at a rapid rate over the next three years, but settle to an industry growth rate of 5% in year 4. The spreadsheet above shows a simplified pro forma for Banco Industries. If Banco industries has a weighted average cost of capital of 11%, $50 million in cash, $80 million in debt, and 18 million shares outstanding, which of the following is the best estimate of Banco's stock price at the start of year 1?

Use the figure for the question(s) below: -On a particular date, the above information concerning Office Depot, Incorporated, was given on Google Finance. Its competitor, Staples Incorporated, had a stock price of $24.33. Which of the following is closest to the EPS of Staples Incorporated if it is estimated using valuation multiples based on price-earnings ratios?

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Use the figure for the question(s) below: -An investor estimates the value of a firm which manufactures cookware by examining the cash flows of similar firms. Which of the following is assumed to be the same for these firms?

The discounted free cash flow model ignores interest income and expense but adjusts for cash and debt directly, if free cash flow is calculated based on EBIT.

Use the table for the question(s) below. -The table above shows the stock prices and multiples for a number of firms in the newspaper publishing industry. Which of the following ratios would most likely be the most reliable in determining the stock price of a comparable firm?

Aerelon Airways, a commercial airline, suffers a major crash. As a result, passengers are considered to be less likely to choose Aerelon as their carrier, and it is expected free cash flows will fall by $15million per year for five years. If Aerelon has 55 million shares outstanding, an equity cost of capital of 10%, and no debt, by how much would Aerelon's shares be expected to fall in price as a result of this accident?

Individual investors who grow up and live during a time of high stock returns are more likely to invest in stocks.

Valuation models use the relationship between share value, future cash flows, and the cost of capital to estimate these quantities for a given firm. Realistically, for a publicly traded firm, what can we reliably use such models to determine? I. the firm's future cash flows

On a certain date, Kastbro has a stock price of $42.50, pays a dividend of $0.64, and has an equity cost of capital of 8%. An investor expects the dividend rate to increase by 6% per year in perpetuity. He then sells all stocks that he owns in Kastbro. Given Kastbro's share price, was this a reasonable action?